Railway stations

A little history
The streets around still bear the names of the initial destinations: Avenue of Maine, Street of Rennes. One of the oldest stations of Paris (1840), it was completely rebuilt after the 2nd World war. The preceding neo-classic building masked a cast iron cover (Falconer) collapsed in a few months of its inauguration. A new station, düe with the architect Victor Lenoir, was built between 1848-1852.

A little history
The name of Austerlitz points out the battle gained by Napoleon in Austria on December 2, 1805 against the troops austro-Russian. With the origin, it was the station terminus for Companie of Orleans operating its first line since 1840. Successive extensions took place in 1846 and 1852.

A little history
Chronologically the first of the Parisian stations, it was built initially (1837) a little more in north, close to current Place of Europe, for the line Paris - Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Rebuilt by Alfred Armand between 1841-1843, it was increased later by Eugene Flachat (1851-1853), in particular by the addition of five covered halls of the metal structure, broadest having a range of 40 meters. The trains on the basis of here will take you along towards Normandy and, towards the United Kingdom, via Dieppe.

With little of history

 It is the last vestige remained the first buildings of station. The places in face of was occupied of XIIIème At the XVIIIème century by the St Lawrence to fair, mentioned by year inscription located in the left house of corner. The building of origin, currently the left leaves of the station, was built between 1847-1850 per François-Alexandre Duquesney with the assistance of L ingenior Pierre Cabanel de Sermet and, was to serf the Paris-Strasbourg line, in function since 1844.

A little history
The quay of the line towards Belgium, controlled by the Rothschild Group and inaugurated in 1846 (Leonce Reynaud, architect - Bréville, engineer), was already insufficient around 1854. This station was shown too small for the traffic growing, which became obvious when the procession of the Victoria queen has dü to be directed towards the Station of the East.