Gare de Pont Cardinet, Railway station in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France
Pont Cardinet is a surface-level railway station in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, located along Rue Cardinet on the mainline route running from Gare Saint-Lazare toward Normandy. The station building sits above the tracks and is reached via escalators leading down to the platforms below.
The station opened in 1854 under the name Gare des Batignolles, serving a neighborhood that was then on the outskirts of Paris. Over the following decades it was renamed and updated several times, including the closure of a branch line connecting it to the RER C network in the 1990s.
The name Pont Cardinet means "Cardinet Bridge", a reference to a nearby bridge that once played a role in shaping this part of the city. The station sits in the middle of a residential neighborhood and serves people who move between local streets and the wider rail network every day.
The station is easy to find from street level along Rue Cardinet, with clear signs guiding passengers to the platforms below. Since 2020 it has been linked to the metro via Line 14, making transfers to other parts of the network straightforward from the same stop.
Pont Cardinet is the only station within the Paris city limits that is neither a terminus nor part of the RER network, making it a rare through-stop on a mainline route. The former direct link to RER C was abandoned in the 1990s and replaced by a shuttle bus service between nearby stations.
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