page_title: Cherbourg Maritime station
section_title: Measurements
hierarchical_section_title: Cherbourg Maritime station / Measurements
caption_attribution_description: Gare Maritime de Cherbourg, Cherbourg.
context_page_description: Cherbourg's Gare Maritime or Gare Maritime Transatlantique was a railway station at the end of the railway line from Paris' Gare Saint-Lazare and of the short branch from Cherbourg's main station.
context_section_description: The complex consisted of the transatlantic hall, a two-storey building through which passengers boarded ocean liners using nine footbridges, as well as with a plethora of amenities:
  Passenger concourse
  Post office
  Offices of each shipping company.
  The hall is 240m long and constitutes the bulk of the complex, thirty four concrete arches carrying the copper and glass rooftop.
  As the station is 93m wide, it was at the time of building the second largest construction in France after Palace of Versailles and covered 2 hectares. As well as the size of the construction mentioned, a 70m tall clock tower was built.
  Along the hall was a 500m long covered gallery used for embarquement and disembarquement of passengers.
  The station was divided in two parts and on the transatlantique side; two ships could berth and empty a thousand passengers into the station in an hour. On the Railway side, up to seven trains a day would take passengers to Paris in 3½ hours.
caption: The station in 1933.
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