Daumesnil (Métro Paris)
 Daumesnil Félix Eboué |
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| place | Paris XII |
| opening | March 1, 1909 |
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Daumesnil is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 6 and 8 .
location
The metro station is located in the Quartier de Picpus in the 12th arrondissement of Paris . The station of the line 6 is below the Boulevard de Reuilly east of the Place Félix-Éboué, that of the line 8 under the Rue de Reuilly northwest of this square.
Surname
It is named after Avenue Daumesnil, which crosses the Boulevard de Reuilly at Place Félix Eboué. Pierre Daumesnil (1777-1832) was Général de brigade , as commandant of the Fort of Vincennes , he defended it during the Sixth War of the Coalition against the Russian (1814) and Prussian (1815) armies.
The station is nicknamed Félix Éboué. Félix Éboué (1884–1944), born in Cayenne ( French Guiana ), was the second black man who held such a post in the colonial administration as governor of the French colonies of Guadeloupe and Chad .
history
On March 1, 1909, the line 6 station went into operation when the route from Place d'Italie to Nation was opened. The opening of the building, completed in 1906, was delayed by three years because the operating company CMP wanted to avoid a deficit in the operation of this then peripheral section of the route.
The station of line 8 went into operation on May 5, 1931, when, at the beginning of the colonial exhibition in the Bois de Vincennes, its eastern extension from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Charenton was opened.
description
Both stations are located under elliptical vaults, the side walls of which follow the curvature of the ellipse. The tracks are framed by two side platforms. They are presented in the "Andreu-Motte" pattern, which was used for renovations between 1974 and 1984. The ceiling (line 8 only) and walls are clad with bevelled white tiles, the seats and the sides of the light strips are red on line 6 and blue on line 8. The station of line 6 has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, that of line 8 was built with a length of 105 m, sufficient for seven-car trains.
All four entrances are on Place Félix Éboué. Three of them are marked by candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the style of Art Deco , which carry the word METRO. The access on the east side of the square also has the Art Nouveau decor designed by Hector Guimard .
vehicles
Before 1974, Sprague-Thomson trains ran on Line 6 . In July 1974 the line was switched to rubber-tyred vehicles, and since then there have been trains from the MP 73 series consisting of three multiple units and two sidecars .
During the colonial exhibition in 1931, seven-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design ran on line 8. Later the train lengths were shortened to five cars. From 1975 onwards, MF 67 trains came on line 8, which were replaced by the MF 77 series from 1980 .
Remarks
- ↑ The designers were the architect Paul Andreu and the designer Joseph-André Motte
- ↑ There is usually no combination of two styles at the same entrance
- ↑ A railcar with a one-sided driver's cab runs at each end of the train, with a driverless cab and two non-motorized sidecars in between
- ↑ Because the stations of line 8 to the west of Richelieu - Drouot were initially only 75 m long, the last two wagons of a train continued to run empty from there, as they did not reach the edge of the platform
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. 92 .
- ^ 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. 210 .
- ↑ a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 241.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 23 " N , 2 ° 23 ′ 45" E