Gare du Nord (Paris Métro)

Gare du Nord
Paris Métro station
Line 4 platforms at Gare du Nord
Location	9, boul. Denain 17, rue de Dunkerque 18, rue de Dunkerque Gare du Nord 10th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°52′50″N 2°21′18″E / 48.88056°N 2.35500°E / 48.88056; 2.35500Coordinates: 48°52′50″N 2°21′18″E / 48.88056°N 2.35500°E / 48.88056; 2.35500
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	15 November 1907 (1907-11-15)
Services
Preceding station   Paris Métro   Following station Gare de l'Est toward Mairie de Montrouge Barbès - Rochechouart toward Porte de Clignancourt Gare de l'Est toward Place d'Italie Stalingrad toward Bobigny - Pablo Picasso Connections to other stations Preceding station   Paris Métro   Following station Barbès - Rochechouart toward Porte Dauphine Transfer at: La Chapelle Stalingrad toward Nation RER La Plaine – Stade de France toward Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 – TGV or Mitry - Claye Transfer at: Gare du Nord Châtelet – Les Halles toward Robinson or Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse Stade de France - Saint-Denis toward Creil Transfer at: Gare du Nord Châtelet – Les Halles toward Melun or Malesherbes Haussmann – Saint-Lazare Terminus Transfer at: Magenta Pantin toward Chelles-Gournay or Tournan
Location
Gare du Nord Location within Paris

Gare du Nord is a Paris Métro station, and serving line 4 and line 5. It is the busiest station in the system (not including RER), with 48 million entrances a year. It is connected to the SNCF's major station, Gare du Nord, literally, Station of the North, which serves RER lines B and D and Transilien Nord commuter trains as well as interurban trains to northern France, Eurostar trains to London and Thalys trains to Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne. The station is also connected to the La Chapelle Métro station on line 2 and to the Magenta RER station on RER line E.

In November 1907 Line 5 was extended from Gare d'Orléans (now known as Gare d'Austerlitz) to Gare du Nord where the station was built on a reversing loop. On 21 April 1908 Line 4 was opened from Châtelet to Porte de Clignancourt through Gare du Nord. In 1942, the old Line 5 station was closed and replaced with a through station, in preparation for the extension to Église de Pantin. The part of the old loop that was not destroyed during the building of RER Line B in the 1970s together with connecting lines to Lines 2 and 4 under the Boulevard de Magenta and the Rue de Dunkerque are now used for driver training (USFRT). The length of platforms on Line 4 were extended from 75m to 90m in the 1960s during the upgrading of the line for rubber-tyre operations.