Algiers railway station
{{Short description|Train station in Algeria}}
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Algiers railway station ({{langx|fr|Gare d'Alger}}, {{langx|ar|محطة قطار الجزائر}}) is a train station in the municipality of Kasbah in the state of Algiers, located near the Kasbah of Algiers and the port of Algiers. Many types of trains of different grades depart from it to all parts of Algeria.{{cite web | url=http://www.ummto.dz/IMG/pdf/Memoire_SAFIR_Magistere_Architecture_2011-2.pdf | title=Université Mouloud Mammeri de Tizi-Ouzou }}
The station is considered to be the central station of the city of Algiers and the rest of the country.{{Cite web|url=https://www.seat61.com/Algeria.htm|title=How to travel by ferry & train to & within Algeria|website=www.seat61.com|access-date=18 July 2019}}
History
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The station's history dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century, when it was inaugurated with the Blida train station on August 15, 1862, in parallel with the receipt of the first railway line, 50 km long, linking the city of Algiers with the city of Blida.https://web.archive.org/web/20170710183355/http://www.piednoir.net/guelma/chroniques/cheminferalgerienseptocto2012.html{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zoIGAAAAQAAJ&dq=inauguration+%22Gare+d%27alger%22&pg=PA130 | title=Loin de Paris | last1=Gautier | first1=Théophile | year=1865 }}
French architect Charles Frédéric Chassériau designed the station.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vq9uUFssHYcC&q=Gare+d%27Alger+Charles+Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chass%C3%A9riau&pg=PA143 | title=La Mitidja vingt ans après: Réalités agricoles aux portes d'Alger | isbn=9782759216437 | last1=Hartani | first1=Tarik | last2=Imache | first2=Amar | last3=Kuper | first3=Marcel | last4=Bouarfa | first4=Sami | year=2011 | publisher=Editions Quae }} Its construction began during the French occupation of Algeria, immediately after the approval of the imperial decree on April 8, 1857, to establish a railway line from Algiers to Oran.{{Cite web |title=Le développement des chemins de fer en Algérie, transports divers;http://alger-roi.fr |url=http://alger-roi.fr/Alger/transports/chemin_fer/morton/developpement_gamt71.htm |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=alger-roi.fr}}
The Algerian Railways Company undertook the completion of this project according to the formula of the railway exploitation concession by two contracts dated June 20, 1860 and July 11, 1860.{{cite web | url=https://algeria-watch.org/?p=31630 | title=L'Algérie participe au sauvetage du groupe Alstom – Algeria-Watch }}
In 1858, Napoleon III had ordered to prepare the land extending from the Kasbah of Algiers to the end of Boufarik, in preparation for the completion of the railway.{{Cite web |title=la plaine de la mitidja avant 1962, etablissements francais:gue de constantine, baba-ali, tekteka; http://alger-roi.fr |url=http://alger-roi.fr/Alger/plaine_mitidja/communes/textes/30_et_pour_finir.htm |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=alger-roi.fr}}
The construction of the Algiers train station was completed and inaugurated in the year 1865 during the completion of a railway line from Algiers to Oran.{{Cite web |title=Electrification des trains de banlieues: Quatre grands constructeurs retenus – Algeria-Watch |url=https://algeria-watch.org/?p=15739 |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=algeria-watch.org}}
The railway line from Algiers to Blida began on September 8, 1862 for the commodity train, then on October 25, 1862 for the passenger train.{{Cite web |last=hafed |date=2015-03-01 |title=Inauguration et premier voyage du train Alger-Blida en 1862 |url=http://blida.net/fra/2015/03/01/inauguration-premier-voyage-du-train-alger-blida-en-1862/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Nouvelles de Blida, passé et présent |language=fr-FR}}
The Algiers train station was reconstructed at the beginning of the twentieth century. It was renovated in 2016.https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181301/http://www.mekerra.fr/images/ouvrages-algerie/napoleon3-en-algerie.pdf
Algiers Metro
The Ali Boumendjel Metro Station (line 1), located at the intersection of Larbi Ben M'hidi, Ali Boumendjel and Patrice Lumumba streets, about 600 meters away, is accessible by leaving the station and taking the public road.
References
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20131230135525/http://www.engrailhistory.info/r052.html EngRailHistory] The Railways of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria (Internet Archive)
- http://www.alger-city.com/economie/transports/gare-centrale-d-alger
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