Like Cluny station, which was closed for 49 years (from 1939 to 1988), Liège station was also closed for decades. Located on the boundary of the 8th and 9th arrondissements, below rue d'Amsterdam, the station is served by line 13, which crosses Paris from northwest to southeast, linking Saint-Denis with the towns of Châtillon and Montrouge.
In August 1939, in the midst of the Second World War, the French government introduced an economic plan, calling for reduced service on the metro network: as a result, only 85 stations remained open. While most stations reopened by the end of the war, eight remained closed, creating the famous ghost stations of the Paris metro. One of these was Liège, which finally reopened in September 1968 with reduced opening hours, after nearly 30 years of closure. As a cost-saving measure, the station's timetable was adjusted, and it closed every Sunday, public holiday and evening from 8pm (according to Wikipedia). The station did not return to normal opening hours until 2006, making it the last metro station with reduced opening hours! In 1982, a decoration unique in the metro was added to the station: made of ceramics from Welkenraedt, a town in the province of Liège, it evokes the landscapes of the region.
