Botzaris (Métro Paris)
 Botzaris
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| place | 19th arrondissement |
| opening | January 18, 1911 |
The subway station Botzaris is a station of line 7bis of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located on the border of the Quartier du Combat with the Quartier d'Amérique in the 19th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the rue Botzaris at the level of the rue de la Villette which flows into it.
Surname
It is named after Rue Botzaris, which is named after the Greek freedom fighter Markos Botsaris (1788–1823). In 1823, during the Greek Revolution , he led a successful attack on a Turkish overwhelming power of almost twenty , in which he himself was killed.
history
Today's line 7bis was on 18 January 1911, when the branch line opened on 5 November 1910 and then from Opéra to Porte de la Villette leading line 7 , put into operation. It leads from their intermediate station Louis Blanc to the terminus Pré-Saint-Gervais located in the large terminal loop “Boucle de Pré-Saint-Gervais ” .
In the first time the line was operated autonomously. After a few months, operations were changed so that the trains on line 7 ran from Opéra to Louis Blanc, and from there alternately on the two outer branches. This type of operation lasted until December 3, 1967. From that day the route was operated separately again - due to the much higher number of passengers on the other branch - and received the current line name.
description
The underground station is 75 m long and has side platforms on two tracks. As it is located in terrain with tunnels , it rests on masonry that extends up to 20 m deep. A massive wall, perforated in several places, supports the two vaulted ceilings between the tracks. The only access is at the confluence of Rue Botzaris and Rue de Crimée, it was designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style.
Immediately to the east of the station is the beginning of the “Boucle de Pré-Saint-Gervais”, where the line splits into two single-track tunnels.
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 .
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. 66 .
- ^ 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: op. Cit. P. 226.
- ^ 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. 72.
- ↑ 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.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Buttes Chaumont ← Louis Blanc |
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Place des Fêtes Pré Saint-Gervais → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 46 ″ N , 2 ° 23 ′ 17 ″ E