Belleville (Paris Metro)

Belleville
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris X , XI , XIX , XX
opening	January 31, 1903

Station of line 2

Station of line 11 with an incoming MP 59 train

Belleville is an underground transfer station for lines 2 and 11 of the Paris Métro . With around 30,000 passengers a day, in 2004 it was one of the twenty most frequented underground stations .

location

The metro station is located at the border point of the 10th , 11th , 19th and 20th arrondissements of Paris . Line 2 station is under Boulevard de la Villette, line 11 is under Rue du Faubourg du Temple.

Surname

It is named after the streets Rue de Belleville and Boulevard de Belleville, which begin there. The Belleville district, which is mainly to the east of the subway station, was an independent municipality in the Saint-Denis arrondissement until 1860 .

History and description

The station of line 2 was put into operation on January 31, 1903 with the opening of line 2 north. This was then extended from Anvers to Bagnolet (since 1970: Alexandre Dumas ).

On April 28, 1935, the station was opened on line 11, which went into operation on the section from Châtelet to Porte des Lilas on the same day . In 1956, line 11 was converted to run on rubber-tyred trains .

Both stations have side platforms on two main tracks. They are located under elliptical , white-tiled vaults and have the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, sufficient for five-car trains. To the north of its station, line 2 has a siding, to the south its route is crossed by line 11 almost at right angles. To the west of the line 11 station there is a simple change of platform .

The five entrances are all at the intersection of the streets Boulevard de la Villette - Boulevard de Belleville and Rue du Faubourg du Temple - Rue de Belleville. Two of them are marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the style of Art Deco .

vehicles

Two-axle vehicles with wooden superstructures initially ran on Line 2; the trains consisted of six short sidecars and one railcar at each end of the train. From 1914 to 1981 the line was operated by five-part, green-painted Sprague-Thomson trains. Since it was not to be converted to vehicles with rubber tires in the medium term, the MF 67 series was launched in 1979 , completely replacing its predecessor within two years. Series vehicles of the MF 01 series have been in use since 2008, and exclusively since 2011.

Line 11 was initially also operated with Sprague-Thomson trains. After the line was rebuilt in 1956, they were initially replaced by the MP 55 series with pneumatic tires . Four-car trains of the MP 59 and (since 2009) MP 73 series have been running since 1999 .

Remarks

↑ The name of today's district does not designate a district according to the Paris administrative structure
↑ To distinguish it from Line 2 South (today Line 6 ), today's Line 2 was initially called Line 2 North
↑ Towards the end of their service life, gray Sprague-Thomson trains, which were originally reserved for line 1 , also came onto the line

Web links

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

literature

Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .

Individual evidence

↑ Sommaire. (PDF; 1.1 MB) (No longer available online.) P. 16 , archived from the original on June 17, 2012 ; Retrieved July 16, 2010 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 62 .
^ 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. 150 .
↑ ^a ^b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 284.
^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 154.
^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 185 .