Auber is an RER station in Paris, and a feat of underground engineering. It is on the RER Line A and is directly connected to the Métro stations Opéra, Havre-Caumartin and Saint-Lazare. An RER train at Gare de lEst. ... Paris Art Nouveau Metro sign The Paris Métro is the metro (underground) system in Paris, France. ... Opéra is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the nearby Paris Opera. ... Havre-Caumartin is a station of the Paris M tro. ... Lines serving this station Line 3 Line 12 Line 13 Line 14 Adjacent stations Gare Saint-Lazare Haussmann - Saint-Lazare (RER E) Saint-Augustin List of stations of the Paris Métro Categories: Paris metro ...

Opened on 23 November 1971 Auber was at the time the largest underground station in the world. It comprises a main train hall with a superposed ticket hall, together with an extensive network of particularly spacious tunnels connecting to neighbouring Métro stations.

The ensemble is built in the style of the traditional vaulted Métro station as promoted by Fulgence Bienvenüe, with central tracks and lateral platforms. The difference in engineering terms is that Auber (along with Étoile and Nation stations) was constructed at depth, entirely underground, and on a far larger scale than any Métro station. Fulgence Bienvenüe (January 27, 1852 - August 3, 1936) was a civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Metro. ...

In order to build the 24m-wide, 225m-long train hall and its even more immense piggy-backing ticket hall, it was necessary to excavate a cavity 45m wide, 30m high and 250m long - and this 30m underground in unstable waterlogged sedimentary rock. The entire construction is waterproofed on both sides by a 7m-thick, 10m-high abutment of concrete which in which are contained escalators linking the two levels. There is even space for a mezzanine overlooking the ticket hall.

The station's eccentrically audacious scale and setting has earned it references as "the world's largest submarine". With the other two deep single-vaulted stations on the RER Line A it has been criticised on cost grounds, and in 2005 is in need of modernisation. However, Auber seems a good example of a planning policy attached to grand public spaces that was particularly current in the 1960s and in France. It is certainly possible to make a defence of the station on the basis of its originality and its sheer spaciousness.

Lines serving this station

• RER Line A

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Adjacent stations

• Opéra
• Havre-Caumartin
• Saint-Lazare

Opéra is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the nearby Paris Opera. ... Havre-Caumartin is a station of the Paris M tro. ... Lines serving this station Line 3 Line 12 Line 13 Line 14 Adjacent stations Gare Saint-Lazare Haussmann - Saint-Lazare (RER E) Saint-Augustin List of stations of the Paris Métro Categories: Paris metro ...

See also

• List of stations of the Paris Métro

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Reference

• Gerondeau, C. (2003). La Saga du RER et le maillon manquant, Paris: Presse de l'École nationale des ponts et chaussées. ISBN 2-85978-368-7. (French)