Verdun station

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Parameter validation".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "check for deprecated parameters".

Verdun station (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Verdun in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. It opened on September 3, 1978, as part of the extension of the Green Line westward to Angrignon station.

Architecture and art

Interior of the Verdun metro station, seen from the west end.
The forced perspective construction can be seen with the lowering ceiling.

Designed by Jean-Maurice Dubé, it is a normal side platform station, built in a deep open cut necessitated by the surrounding Utica shale formation. The ticket hall is located at transept level, and both the mezzanine and platforms are surmounted by high volumes. The volume over the tracks and platforms has a forced perspective; the ceiling lowers and the platform width shortens on the western end of the station. Accesses are located on either side of rue de Verdun.

The artwork running throughout the station consists of concrete walls with bas-reliefs in the upper parts and painted motifs on the lower, which were designed by Claude Théberge and Antoine D. Lamarche.

Origin of the name

This station is named for rue de Verdun and for the borough (formerly the city) of Verdun, in front of whose borough office the station is located. The land that would later constitute the borough was granted as a concession to Zacharie Dupuis in 1671; he named it Fief-de-Verdun for his birthplace at Saverdun in the south of France.

Connecting bus routes

style="background: #Template:Rcr; font-size:100%; color:#FFFFFF;"colspan="4"|<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />Société de transport de Montréal
No. Route Connects to Service times / notes
Template:Rint Verdun Template:Plainlist Daily
Template:Rint Verdun / LaSalle Template:Plainlist Night service

Nearby points of interest

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. ↑ Verdun Station

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

External links

  1. REDIRECT Template:Montreal Metro navbox
Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Verdun_station&oldid=5612971"