The old city of Namur, with the Sambre River and Saint-Aubin Cathedral |
Rue Namur. Namur is a city in Belgium at the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse rivers, the capital of the province of the same name and of the region of Wallonia. It is a sister-city of Quebec City. This name applied to the westernmost section of modern rue Jean-Talon, as part of a number of names of streets built during a construction boom following World War II and named for sites of battles in that war; Namur had been at the front lines of both the German invasion of France in 1940 and the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
Namur was used as the planning name of this station even after the street was joined to the rest of rue Jean-Talon and renamed accordingly. To preserve the name of the metro station since no better name presented itself, nearby rue Arnoldi was renamed rue Namur in 1980.
In June 2007 a delegation from the city of Namur, in Quebec for a conference of regional capitals in Victoriaville, visited the station and presented the STM with a plaque commemorating the station's namesake.
Name during planning phase: Arnoldi.
Name proposed during planning phase: Blue Bonnets.
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This station's platforms are slightly longer than the normal 152,4 metres; this situation is corrected by a barrier at the northern end of the Montmorency platform. The reason was to permit the station to reach further south to allow for the future placement of two supplemental exits. A large cavern is visible in the tunnel at the south end of the station, built to provide space for the eventual construction of a transept and mezzanine.