Alma - Marceau (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Alma - Marceau
Metro de Paris - Ligne 9 - Alma - Marceau 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 09Paris Metro 9.svg
place Paris VIII
opening May 27, 1923
Subsidence of the Place de l'Alma during the construction of the station, 1915
One of two “Dervaux” candelabra at the southern entrance

Alma - Marceau is an underground station on line 9 of the Paris Métro . You can change to the S-Bahn- like Réseau Express Régional (line RER C ) over the bridge Pont de l'Alma to the Pont de l'Alma train station on the other bank of the Seine , approx. 200 m away .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier des Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement with the Quartier de Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under the Avenue du Président Wilson at its eastern end not far from the Seine .

Surname

The station is named after the Place de l'Alma and the Avenue Marceau which crosses the Avenue du Président Wilson.

The Alma is a river on the Crimean peninsula . In the Battle of Alma in 1854, French and British troops defeated the Russian army in the Crimean War . François Séverin Marceau , who took part in the storming of the Bastille , became General of the First French Republic at the age of 23 .

history

On November 6, 1915, the vault of the subway station collapsed during construction , whereupon the pavement of the Place de l'Alma sank. With the commissioning of the first extension of line 9 from Trocadéro to Saint-Augustin on May 27, 1923, the station was opened.

description

The station is 75 m long and has two side platforms on the two main tracks. It has an elliptical cross-section, the ceiling and walls are tiled in white. To the west, the route follows the course of Avenue du Président Wilson in an approximate 45 ° curve, and at the eastern end of the station there is a 90 ° curve that leads to Avenue Montaigne.

One of the entrances is decorated with two candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .

vehicles

Line 9 is operated with conventional vehicles that run on steel rails. Initially, trains of the Sprague-Thomson type , which were last used there, ran. In 1983 the MF 67 series was launched . The MF 01 series has been increasingly used since October 2013, and the last MF 67 train ran on line 9 on December 14, 2016.

Surroundings

The Crazy Horse cabaret is in the immediate vicinity . The Flamme de la Liberté , a true-to-scale replica of the torch of the New York Statue of Liberty , has stood on Place de l'Alma since 1989 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ On six lines of the Paris Metro, trains run with pneumatic tires on mobile beams
  2. ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

Web links

Commons : Alma - Marceau (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 54 .
  2. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 2nd Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 258 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ↑ Route map at carto.metro.free.fr, accessed on May 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 260.
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