Gare du Nord (Paris Métro)

Gare du Nord is an underground station of the Paris Métro. It is located in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. The station is served by the Métro lines 4 and 5. The name as that of the overlying long-distance train station.

There is transit traffic to the RER B and RER D at the underground linked eponymous railway station, the Gare du Nord, and the aboveground part, the largest and most important railway station for TGV / Thalys and Euro Star trains to London, Brussels, Cologne and Amsterdam from Paris. There is also the transit traffic to the tunnel RER E Magenta Station, which is located between the Gare du Nord and Gare de l' Est. The station is a major transfer hubs in the center of Paris. With about 99,000 passengers a day was the station 2004, the busiest station of the Metro.

The station was taken on November 15, 1907 opening of the northern extension of line 5 to Gare du Nord in operation. On April 21, 1908, the station of the line was opened 4. By 1942, the Gare du Nord was the terminus of Line 5, which was extended to the station Église de Pantin in the north- east of Paris, on October 12, 1942. Here, the old terminus of the line was 5 under the Boulevard de Denain, which now serves as a training center for subway riders, abandoned and replaced by the still in service station under the Rue du Faubourg Saint- Denis. The concourse of line 4 is below the Place Napoleon III, in front of the station building.