Argentine (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Argentine
Metro-Paris-Ligne-1-station Argentine 02.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 01Paris Metro 1.svg
place Paris XVI , XVII
opening September 1, 1900
Station in front of the installation of the platform screen doors, 2006
Platform with platform screen doors and a stopping train of the MP 05 series
Station sign with integrated display board
Former access structure by Hector Guimard (left), 1902

Argentine is an underground station on Line 1 of the Paris Métro .

location

The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier de Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement with the Quartier des Ternes in the 17th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the avenue de la Grande-Armée at the level of the confluent rue Villaret de Joyeuse.

Surname

It is named after the Rue d'Argentine, which flows into the Avenue de la Grande-Armée. Argentina (fr: Argentine) is the second largest country in South America in terms of area and population . The name of the Rue d'Obligado was given in 1947 after Eva Perón , the second wife of the Argentine President Juan Perón , visited Paris. With this, France expressed its gratitude for the Argentine food aid in the period after the Second World War .

Until May 25, 1948, the station was called "Obligado". Vuelta de Obligado is the name of a bottleneck of the Río Paraná in Argentina, near its confluence with the Río de la Plata . There, on November 20, 1845, a French-English squadron forced a breakthrough against the troops of the Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas .

history

The station opened on September 1, 1900, six weeks after the opening of Line 1 between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot , as one of the first Parisian underground stations. Until it was put into operation, the trains passed the station without stopping. At the beginning of the 1960s, it was extended from 75 m to 90 m and converted for traffic with rubber-tyred trains .

In 2008 the station was renovated and the platforms were raised. In 2009 platform screen doors were installed with a view to the introduction of driverless operation .

description

The station is located under an elliptical vaulted ceiling. It has curved, white tiled side walls and side platforms on two main tracks. The new station signs installed in 2011 include display boards on Argentine topics.

The two entrances are on both sides of the avenue de la Grande-Armée east of the junction with the rue Villaret de Joyeuse. The access structure designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style on the northern staircase no longer exists.

vehicles

Initially, trains ran on Line 1, which consisted of a railcar with only one driver's cab and two sidecars . These vehicles were two-axle and each nearly nine meters long. As early as 1902, eight-car trains were formed, each with a railcar at the ends of the train. The railcars were replaced by four-axle vehicles on bogies until 1905, and the sidecars from 1906 . In 1908, five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design found their way onto Line 1, and they stayed there until the 1960s. From May 1963, the Sprague-Thomson trains, which ran on rails, were successively replaced by the MP 59 series with rubber-tyred vehicles . The MP 89  CC series followed in 1997, which gave way to the MP 05 series with the start of automatic operation .

Remarks

  1. ↑ After the metro accident at Couronnes station in 1903, both railcars ran one behind the other at the Zugspitze
  2. ↑ Initially painted green, as on the other lines, the trains on Line 1 were painted light gray (with a red 1st class car) from the early 1930s
  3. ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA

Web links

Commons : Argentine (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. 113 .
  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. 130 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 134.
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132 ff.
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