Denfert-Rochereau train station
| Denfert-Rochereau | |
|---|---|
 Reception building (2012)
|
|
| Data | |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Paris |
| Place / district | 14th arrondissement |
| Department | Paris |
| region | Île-de-France |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 49 '59 " N , 2 ° 19' 59" E |
| Railway lines | |
|
|
| List of train stations in France | |
The Denfert-Rochereau train station ( French Gare de Denfert-Rochereau , formerly Gare de Sceaux , originally Gare de Paris-d'Enfer or Embarcadère de Sceaux ) is located on Place Denfert-Rochereau in the Quartier du Petit-Montrouge of the 14th arrondissement of the French capital Paris . It is one of the few and also the oldest of the remaining stations from the first days of the French railways . Today the trains of line B of the S-Bahn- like Réseau express régional d'Île-de-France (RER) stop there .
history
.JPG)
The train station Gare de Paris-d'Enfer was 1842-1846 as the northern terminus of the railway line Ligne de Sceaux built by the city gate d'Enfer Barrière in Akzisemauer the farmer-general of the Paris suburb of Sceaux was built. The Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Paris à Sceaux railway company uses the principle, known as Système Arnoux after its inventor Jean-Claude-Républicain Arnoux , in which the axles of the vehicles are rotated in the curves according to a complicated process depending on the curve radius. In contrast to the rigid axles used until then, there was no impairment of the tracks due to the wheels at an angle to the tracks. These trains could also drive through very tight curves. The terminal stations were therefore each given a single-track turning loop , which made it unnecessary to move the locomotive when sweeping. In adaptation to this track layout, the Paris reception building was given a floor plan that corresponded to about a quarter circle. The tracks were laid with the then and now unusual gauge of 1750 millimeters.
On 7 June 1846, opened Count of Nemours and Montpensier , on behalf of her father, the French king Louis-Philippe I , the train station. The line went into operation on June 23 of that year.
In 1895 the Ligne de Sceaux was extended to 1450 millimeters underground to the Gare du Luxembourg with a simultaneous gauge change . The reception building, originally designed symmetrically by the engineer Dulong, lost its part of its south wing. Denfert-Rochereau was no longer the terminus of the suburban line, but retained two butt tracks on a central platform in addition to the lowered through tracks. The two through tracks, equipped with side platforms, are to the west of it and disappear into a tunnel north of the station. Until 1937, the private Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans operated the railway line and also electrified it. The line then became the property of the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP), which was taken over in 1948 by the newly founded state public transport company RATP .
In 1977, the RATP extended the railway line from the Gare de Luxembourg underground to the Châtelet - Les Halles train station in the city center . With the opening of the new tunnel, the new Parisian suburban network Réseau Express Régional (RER) began operating on the route. The Ligne de Sceaux has been part of the RER line B since then, but Denfert-Rochereau station has not changed significantly.
Since 1906 there has been a transition to the Denfert-Rochereau station of the Métro, which is parallel to the railway tracks .
Remarks
- ↑ In the absence of a suitable name, the stations were initially referred to as "Embarcadère" (landing stage), analogous to shipping.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Clive Lamming: Paris au temps des gares . Parigrams, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-84096-711-8 , pp. 64 ff .
- ^ Gaston Jacobs: La ligne de Sceaux , Éditions La Vie du Rail, 1987, ISBN 2-902808-28-3
- ↑ A short history of the Ligne de Sceaux (French)
- ^ A b Christoph Groneck: Metros in France - Metros in France . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936573-13-1 , p. 64 76 .
