A first Gare du Nord was built by engineers of bridges and roads on behalf of the Compagnie des Chemins de fer du Nord, including Léonce Reynaud, professor of architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique and inaugurated on 14 June 1846. With only two lanes, it is considered too small since 1854. The building was partly dismantled in 1860 to make room for the current station, its stone facade rose to Lille is the current front of the Gare de Lille-Flandres. With the rapid growth of traffic, from six to seven million passengers from 1875 to 1885, the number of lanes increases again. He spent thirteen in 1875 to eighteen in 1889 for the Universal Exhibition. The interior is entirely rebuilt, with a redistribution of channels to dock. Like other Parisian railway stations, it quickly became too small to address development of rail transport. Further extensions took place between the years 1930 and 1960. In 1934, construction of large-scale forward-station allow for strict separation of different flows through the construction of several grade separations reclassification deleting the shears. paris by night pictures 360 panoramic On 8 December 1970, with the electrification of the line Ermont - Valmondois, steam traction disappears permanently from the northern suburbs, but also in the Paris suburbs. In the late 1970s, an underground station was built in the east to accommodate the interconnection of the north-south regional express network, and the surface, the other suburban lines. 360° panoramic photos of Paris. With an endowment of thirty-three tracks to dock in 1983, the Gare du Nord is in first place in France.
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