Danube (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Danube
Paris metro danube.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 07bisParis Metro 7 bis.svg
place 19th arrondissement
opening January 18, 1911
The Danube station rests on a viaduct that was built in a former gypsum mine
Access with Art Deco candelabra

Danube is an underground station on line 7bis of the Paris Métro . It is located within the “Boucle de Pré-Saint-Gervais” end loop and is one of the underground stations with the lowest number of passengers in the metro network.

location

The station is located in the Quartier d'Amérique in the 19th arrondissement of Paris . It is located under the Place de Rhin-et-Danube, which was only called Place du Danube until 1951.

Surname

It was named after the former Place du Danube (German: Donauplatz). The Danube is 2850 km the second longest European river. The square was created in 1875 to access the La Villette horse market .

History and description

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.

The station and the line tunnel towards Buttes-Chaumont were built under the most difficult conditions. During the construction of the route they came across the middle of the 19th century abandoned gypsum - mines "Carrières d'Amérique", traversed had. The northern tunnel of the final loop crosses the quarries under the Rue du Général-Brunet, the Place de Rhin-et-Danube and the Rue David-d'Angers over a length of 550 m. Three layers of plaster of paris were found in this area, not all of which had been removed. The old tunnels were more or less filled, and there was no reliable load-bearing capacity. It was therefore necessary to support the tunnel on stable ground, i.e. H. under the three existing layers. Some of the supporting pillars reach a height of 35 m, the route takes the form of an underground viaduct. This constellation explains the difficulty of setting up stations on a stable base. The Danube station therefore has two parallel station sections for one track each, which are separated by a central wall that functions as a pillar. It rests on manhole rings laid out in three rows that are 2.5 m in diameter and 6 m apart. No fewer than 220 well foundations, which reach a cumulative total height of 5.5 km, were built in this section of the route.

The two 75 m long station sections are located under round, white tiled vaulted ceilings. The passages in the partition wall are barred or walled up, as only the southern track is used for passenger traffic. There are trains coming from the terminus Pré-Saint-Gervais in the direction of Louis Blanc, in the opposite direction the underground station is not used. The northern track serves as an operating track only for the parking of trains.

The only access is on the Place de Rhin-et-Danube. It is adorned with a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style , which bears the word METRO.

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

  1. ↑ The designation 7bis corresponds to the German 7a
  2. ↑ The gypsum mined there was exported to America, hence the names "Carrières d'Amérique" (America quarries) and Quartier d'Amérique

Web links

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

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 92 .
  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. 223 .
  3. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 226.
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 221 f.
  5. ↑ a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 222.
  6. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  7. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 74.
  8. ↑ Lignes 7 et 7 bis at karodaxo.fr, accessed on April 9, 2017.
  9. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 109.
  10. ^ Brian Hardy: op. Cit. P. 89 f.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 55 "  N , 2 ° 23 ′ 39"  E