Gare de Saint-Quentin, Railway station and historical monument in Saint-Quentin, France.
The Saint-Quentin railway station is a railroad facility and listed historical monument in northern France, situated at an elevation of approximately 75 meters. The building displays architectural features typical of 19th-century French railway construction and continues to function as an active transportation hub.
The first station opened in May 1850 on the Creil–Saint-Quentin section of the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord, and Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte inaugurated it on 9 June 1850. A second building by company architect Sidney Dunnett followed in 1887 but burned down on 13 January 1922. The present station, built in 1926 by Gustave Umbdenstock and Urbain Cassan with Art Deco interiors by glassmaker Auguste Labouret, has had its facades, roof and buffet listed as monuments historiques since 23 September 2003.
The station's name appears in carved pale stone lettering across the top of the brick facade, above three round-arched openings. The interior decoration in Art Deco style was made by master glassmaker Auguste Labouret. The station buffet, listed with the facades and roof as a monument historique since 23 September 2003, has been restored so it can be rented and visited.
The station sits about 200 metres from Saint-Quentin town centre, with a car park beside it and a coach shuttle to the TGV Haute-Picardie station. A pedestrian underpass links the platforms. It is an "Accès Plus" station with facilities for reduced-mobility travellers, and urban buses stop at Pont Supérieur and Gare SNCF.
In 1964 Franquin drew the station facade in the comic Les Robinsons du rail, with Gaston Lagaffe; publisher Dupuis then had its presses in Saint-Quentin, midway between Paris and Brussels. The 1926 building by Gustave Umbdenstock and Urbain Cassan has facades, roof and buffet listed as monuments historiques since 23 September 2003.
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