Wednesday, 27 May 2015

28-MAY-1900 :- Gare d'Orsay railway station is inaugurated, first electrified urban rail terminal in the world.

Gare d'Orsay is a former Paris railway station and hotel, built in 1900 to designs by Victor LalouxLucien Magne and Émile Bénard; it served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (Paris-Orléans Railway). It was the first electrified urban rail terminal in the world, opened 28 May 1900, in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. After closure as a station, it reopened in December 1986 as the Musée d'Orsay, an art museum. The museum is currently served by the RER station of the same name.

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