Château-Landon (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Château-Landon
Landon-verssud-ramedépart.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 07Paris Metro 7.svg
place Paris X
opening November 5, 1910
Road access to the station and Gare de l'Est train station
Access area
Tunnel south of the underground station with a change of platform

Château-Landon is an underground metro station on line 7 of the Paris Métro . The adjacent train station Gare de l'Est can TGV - high-speed trains and regional trains towards Eastern France and Germany are switched.

location

The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier de l'Hôpital-Saint-Louis and the Quartier Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in the 10th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin at the junction of the Rue du Château-Landon and borders the Gare de l'Est station immediately to the east.

Surname

It is named after the Rue du Château-Landon. At the time of Louis XIV there was the country house of a Sieur Landon, which was also called "Château" (Eng .: castle).

History and description

The metro station started operating on November 5, 1910 when the first section of Line 7 from Opéra station to Porte de la Villette station opened.

It consists of two parallel, adjacent stations that are separated from each other by a retaining wall pierced at several points. They lie under white-tiled vaults, are 75 m long and each have a side platform on a track. The western station serves the traffic in the direction of the southern endpoints Villejuif - Louis Aragon and Mairie d'Ivry . The trains in the direction of La Courneuve stop at the eastern station - May 8, 1945 , from 1911 to 1967 every second train in the following Louis Blanc underground station turned onto today's line 7bis .

There is only one access from the street on Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin. It is integrated into a building and has a yellow "M" in a double circle as a designation. An additional exit with escalator was closed in the early 1990s. A baggage corridor under the platforms of the Gare de l'Est long-distance train station, created in 1931, now serves as an underground connection for people transferring between the metro and the railroad.

While the tracks stretch apart in two separate tunnels north of the underground station, they are united in a common tunnel on the south side. There is a simple track change right in front of the station .

Passenger numbers

In 2011, around 1,600,000 passengers were counted using this underground station to access the Paris metro network. In 2013 there were 1,645,000.

Future planning

The long-discussed merger of lines 7bis and 3bis to form a common line with an extension in the west to Château-Landon was put on the back burner and will now - if it is realized - postponed until after 2030. In addition, an underground pedestrian connection to Magenta train station is planned, so that a connection to the RER E would also be available afterwards . However, there are considerable structural problems in the way.

vehicles

Conventional five-car trains of the MF 77 series run on Line 7 . Between 1971 and 1979 trains of the MF 67 series ran there , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type .

Remarks

  1. ↑ "Sieur" is an abbreviation for Seigneur (German: landlord )
  2. ↑ The designation 7bis corresponds to the German 7a

Web links

Commons : Château-Landon (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La rue du Château-Landon - 75010 at parisrues.com, accessed on April 17, 2017.
  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. 222 f .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ^ Coupe verticale parallèlement aux voies du bâtiment des voyageurs ( Memento of December 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) at web.archive.org, accessed on April 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ RATP statistics for 2013 ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 227 and 245.
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Louis Blanc
←  La Courneuve - May 8, 1945 		Paris Metro 7.svg Gare de l'Est
Mairie d'Ivry or
Villejuif - Louis Aragon  →

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 42 "  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 43"  E