General Information
| Completion: | 1858 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) station |
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Location
| Location: |
Cherbourg-Octeville, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Manche (50), Normandy, France |
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| Address: | Avenue Jean-François-Millet |
| Coordinates: | 49° 38' 1" N 1° 37' 17" W |
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
Gare de Cherbourg is the railway station of the city of Cherbourg, France. It is the western terminus of the Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway.
On 5 September 1850, the president Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte visited Cherbourg and demanded the continuation of work on the Arsenal. He also demanded the construction of a railway line linking Cherbourg to Paris. The construction of the line was approved in 1852. The station was opened on 4 August 1858 by Napoleon III who arrived on the imperial train from Paris.
At the time of opening, the trip to Paris took ten hours and cost 22.85 FrF for a third class ticket and 41.55 FrF for a first class ticket.
Queen Victoria visited the city and its station the same day and took part in the grandiose celebrations. The third dock of the Cherbourg Arsenal, 1 200 000m³ in size, was opened and a steam ship immediately sailed from it.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Gare de Cherbourg" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20016972 - Published on:
22/07/2005 - Last updated on:
29/07/2014
