Musée d'Orsay
Platforms
General information
Location7 Quai Anatole-France
7th arrondissement of Paris, 75007
France
Coordinates 48°51′38″N 2°19′32″E / 48.86056°N 2.32556°E / 48.86056; 2.32556
Elevation27 m (89 ft)
Operated bySNCF
Connections
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
AccessibleNo[1]
Other information
Station code87547307
Fare zone1
History
Opened28 May 1900 (1900-05-28) (original)
26 September 1979 (1979-09-26) (underground)
Previous namesGare d'Orsay
Passengers
20194,739,380
Services
Preceding station RER RER Following station
Invalides
towards Pontoise, Versailles Château Rive Gauche or Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
 RER C Saint-Michel–Notre-Dame
towards Massy-Palaiseau, Dourdan-la-Forêt or Saint-Martin-d'Étampes
Location

Musée d'Orsay is a station in line C of the Paris Region's Réseau express régional (RER) rapid transit system, named after the Musée d'Orsay, housed in the old Gare d'Orsay. It is in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It was one of several stations attacked during the 1995 Paris Métro and RER bombings.

History

The new railway line extension opened in 1900, linking Gare d'Austerlitz and Gare d'Orsay
Musée d'Orsay station entrance on Rue Légion Honneur, with the Musée d'Orsay in the background

The Gare d'Orsay was opened in 1900 by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (Paris–Orléans Railway, PO) as a mainline railway station for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. It became the PO company's new central terminus station, after the company extended its line from the Gare d'Austerlitz in the 13th arrondissement. The line made use of the new technology at the time, 550 V DC third rail electric traction, and it was constructed in a 1 km (0.62 mi) cut-and-cover tunnel along the left bank of the Seine from Austerlitz to the Quai d'Orsay.[2][3]

By the late 1930s, SNCF mainline trains had grown too long for the platforms at Gare d'Orsay, and had to terminate at Gare d'Austerlitz. Orsay station fell into disuse and lay derelict for many years. The line was brought back into passenger service when a 1-kilometre (0.62 mi) extension was built in a tunnel along the bank of the Seine, connecting the former PO line to the Gare des Invalides, the terminus of the Rive Gauche line to Versailles. A new Quai d'Orsay underground station was built on the bank of the River Seine, adjacent to the old Orsay terminal station. The new link opened as the Transversal Rive Gauche on 26 September 1979, and today this forms the central section of the RER Line C.[4][5] On the opening of the Musée d'Orsay in the former Gare d'Orsay station in 1986, Quai d'Orsay station was renamed after the museum.

On 17 October 1995, Musée d'Orsay station was subjected to a terrorist attack during the 1995 France bombings, when a gas bottle exploded between Musée d'Orsay and Saint-Michel–Notre-Dame station, wounding 29 people.[6]

Adjacent stations

Assemblée Nationale and Solférino on Paris Métro Line 12 are both within walking distance.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Plan pour les voyageurs en fauteuil roulant" [Map for travelers in wheelchairs] (PDF). Île-de-France Mobilités (in French and British English). 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Baer, Christopher T. (March 2005). "PRR Chronology" (PDF). The Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  3. ↑ "Histoire du musée - Un musée dans une gare". www.musee-orsay.fr. Musée d'Orsay. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  4. ↑ Pigenet, Michel (2008). Mémoires du travail à Paris: faubourg des métallos, Austerlitz-Salpêtrière, Renault-Billancourt (in French). creaphis editions. p. 150. ISBN 978-2-35428-014-7. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  5. ↑ Janssoone ·, Didier (2019). Les 40 Ans de la Ligne C du RER 1979-2019 (La Vie du Rail). Paris: Éditions La Vie Du Rail.
  6. ↑ Sophie Bouniot, "Des dénégations absurdes face aux preuves irréfutables" [archive], humanite.fr, 24 October 2002
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