Buttes Chaumont (Paris Metro)
 Buttes Chaumont
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| place | 19th arrondissement |
| opening | February 13, 1912 |
Buttes Chaumont is an underground station on line 7bis of the Paris Métro . It is one of the underground stations with the lowest number of passengers in the metro network.
location
The station is located in the Quartier du Combat in the 19th arrondissement of Paris . It is located under Rue Botzaris on the edge of the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont landscaped gardens .
Surname
It is named after the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, which was laid out by Georges-Eugène Haussmann and designed by Jean-Charles Alphand and Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps from 1866 to 1867 . It is located on the once bare hills (fr: buttes) of Belleville , which were called "Monts chauves" (bare mountains). From this the name "Chaumont" developed.
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 ” . The Buttes Chaumont station was initially passed through without stopping, it only went into operation on February 13, 1912.
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 station is unusually low by Parisian standards. Its platforms are 31 m below the surface, the elevators, which overcome a height difference of almost 29 m, are the longest in the metro network.
It is 75 m long and has side platforms on two main tracks. A massive wall, perforated in several places, supports the two vaulted ceilings between the tracks. The only entrance marks a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .
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. 69 .
- ^ 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. 74.
- ↑ 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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Bolivar ← Louis Blanc |
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Botzaris Pré Saint-Gervais → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 43 " N , 2 ° 22 ′ 54" E