Billancourt (Métro Paris)

Billancourt
Tariff zone	2
Line (s)
place	Boulogne-Billancourt
opening	February 3, 1934

Train series MF 67 , 2009

Train series MF 01 , 2013

The Metro Station Billancourt is a station on the line 9 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the southwestern Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt . It is located along the Avenue du Général Leclerc at the intersection of the Rue de Billancourt - Rue de la Ferme.

Surname

It is named after the Rue de Billancourt. The first mention of the village of Billancourt comes from the 12th century, its name goes back to the estate of a certain Billa. In 1859 it was incorporated into Boulogne-sur-Seine in the north, and in 1924 the city was renamed Boulogne-Billancourt. Up until 1992, the Renault automobile factory with up to 50,000 employees was located on the Île Seguin island of the Seine upstream from Billancourt .

History and description

The station went into operation on February 3, 1934, when the more than 2000 m long western end section of line 9 from Porte de Saint-Cloud to Pont de Sèvres was opened.

It lies under an elliptical , white-tiled vault, the side walls of which follow the curvature of the ellipse. From the beginning it was built with a length of 105 m, sufficient for seven-car trains.

The four entrances are marked by candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style with the word METRO.

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.

Remarks

1. ↑ Trains run on five lines of the Paris Métro 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 : Billancourt (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

1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 63 f .
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. 259 .
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. 260.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 56 ″  N , 2 ° 14 ′ 19 ″  E