Boucicaut (Métro Paris)
 Boucicaut
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| place | Paris XV |
| opening | July 27, 1937 |
The metro station Boucicaut is an underground station line 8 of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located in the Quartier de Javel in the 15th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Avenue Félix Faure south of its intersection with the Rue de la Convention.
Surname
It is named after the nearby former hospital Hôpital Boucicaut, which was operated as such from 1897 to 2000. The legacy of the entrepreneur's widow Marguerite Boucicaut (1816–1887), whose husband Aristide Boucicaut (1810–1877) had made a fortune with the department store he founded, Au Bon Marché , allowed its construction.
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, the 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 is located under an elliptical , white tiled vault, the side walls of which follow the curvature of the ellipse. It was built from the beginning with a length of 105 m, sufficient for seven-car trains.
The four entrances are at the four corners of the above-mentioned intersection. Three of them are marked by candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style with the word METRO.
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 .
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 67 .
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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. 74.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 241.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Lourmel ← Balard |
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Félix Faure Pointe du Lac → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 28 " N , 2 ° 17 ′ 16" E