Balard (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Balard
Station métro Balard - IMG 3594.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 08Paris Metro 8.svg
place Paris XV
opening July 27, 1937
Connected stations Balard
→T3Paris Tram 3.svg
Run-in train of the MF 77 series on the western track of the central platform
Access with an Art Deco candelabra, in the background a tram line 3a

The Balard metro station is an underground station and at the same time the south-western terminus of line 8 of the Paris Métro . At the above-ground stop of the same name, you can change to line 3a of the Paris tram , at the nearby stop "Suzanne Lenglen" to line 2 .

location

The station is located in the Quartier de Javel in the 15th arrondissement of Paris . It is located along the avenue de la Porte de Sèvres south of the intersecting street Boulevard du Général Martial Valin - Boulevard Victor, which is one of the Boulevards des Maréchaux .

Surname

It is named after the nearby Place Balard. The chemist Antoine-Jérôme Balard (1802–1876) discovered the element bromine in 1826 .

History and description

On July 27, 1937, the station went into operation when the section from La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle to Balard of line 8 was opened. On that day, their old route from La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle to Porte d'Auteuil was abandoned and this section of the route was assigned to line 10 .

The station, which is located under an elliptical vault, was built from the beginning with a length of 105 m, sufficient for seven-car trains. It has three tracks on a side and a middle platform. Only arriving trains can stop on the side platform, departing trains on both tracks of the central platform. The middle track can be driven in both directions, it is usually used by the incoming trains which there head make . To the south of the station is a four-track turning and parking facility, to the north there is a simple track change .

Two entrances are located near the tram stop for the T3a tram, on both sides of the avenue de la Porte de Sèvres where it joins the Boulevards des Maréchaux. They are marked by candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style with the word METRO. A third access is at the southern end of the station, it serves u. a. those transferring to tram line 2.

vehicles

Despite the length of the platforms, only five-car trains were ever used, as five stations on line 8 are still only 75 m long. Trains of the Sprague-Thomson type ran until 1975 . In that year MF 67 trains came on the line, which were replaced from 1980 by the MF 77 series .

Surroundings

Between 2009 and 2015, the French Ministry of Defense built a spectacular new building, the Hexagone Balard, at the metro station .

Web links

Commons : Balard (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. 59 .
  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. 243 .
  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. 74.
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 241.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 13 "  N , 2 ° 16 ′ 43"  E