Bolivar (Métro Paris)
 Bolivar
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| place | 19th arrondissement |
| opening | July 18, 1911 |
Bolivar is an underground station on line 7bis of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located in the Quartier du Combat in the 19th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Avenue Secrétan.
Surname
It is named after the avenue Simon Bolivar, which begins there. Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), known as "El Libertador", is considered a hero of the South American wars of independence . The admirer Napoleon Bonapartes led the South American independence movement against the Spanish colonial rulers in several Central and South American states. He founded the Republic of Greater Colombia , but he was unable to realize his hope of uniting all of Latin America .
history
The station went into operation on July 18, 1911 with the opening of the eastern branch of line 7 from Louis Blanc to the Pré-Saint-Gervais station . The newly established, independent line 7bis has been in operation on the Louis Blanc - Pré-Saint-Gervais route since December 3, 1967.
In the last year of the First World War, a disaster occurred in the Bolivar station. After a bomb alarm with subsequent German bombs dropped near the station, there was a mass panic on the night of March 11th to March 12th, 1918 among the people who visited the underground station , which was designated as a protective bunker . Even on the stairs the crowd was so great that it was no longer possible to open the access doors to the platforms, as these doors could only be opened to the outside. A total of 66 people died, including 29 women and 30 children: they were crushed or suffocated, or were overrun when the doors finally gave way. As a result of this drama, the doors of the stations were changed so that they could be moved in both directions.
description
The 75 m long station is located under an elliptical , white tiled vaulted ceiling, two side platforms are on the two main tracks. It has only one entrance at the confluence of Avenue Simon Bolivar and Avenue Secrétan. The entrance area, designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style, was only moved there in 1987; it was previously at the Barbès - Rochechouart station .
On the platform in the direction of Louis Blanc there is information on Simón Bolívar on display boards.
vehicles
In July 1980, the Sprague-Thomson trains that had been running on the line until then , which last only ran there with four cars, were replaced within a few weeks by those of the MF 67 series . The MF 67 "F" initially ran in the classic configuration as five-car trains and were later replaced by four-car trains from the "E" series.
Since January 1994, the short 7bis line has been the only one in the Paris Métro network that - after a transition period until December 30, 1994 - is used exclusively by the MF 88 series, which has just nine three-car trains .
Passenger numbers
With just under 650,000 boarding passengers in 2013, Bolivar is one of the least visited stations, it ranks 299 among the 303 subway stations in Paris.
Remarks
- ↑ The designation 7bis corresponds to the German 7a
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 65 f .
- ^ 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. 223 .
- ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. P. 226.
- ^ Metro Passion (French) accessed on August 1, 2014
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Lignes 7 et 7 bis at karodaxo.fr, accessed on April 9, 2017.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 109.
- ^ Brian Hardy: op. Cit. P. 89 f.
- ↑ RATP statistics for 2014
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Jaurès ← Louis Blanc |
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Buttes Chaumont Pré Saint-Gervais → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 50 " N , 2 ° 22 ′ 30" E