Duroc (Métro Paris)

Duroc
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris VI , Paris VII , Paris XV
opening	December 30, 1923

Routes before and from July 1937, the new route sections are shown with dashed lines

Duroc is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 10 and 13 .

location

The metro station is on the border of the 6th ( Quartier Notre-Dame-des-Champs), 7th (Quartier de l'École Militaire) and 15th arrondissement (Quartier Necker) of Paris . The station for line 10 is located west of the Place Léon-Paul-Fargue junction along the rue de Sèvres, while line 13 is located north of the confluence of the former operating tracks under the Boulevard des Invalides.

Surname

It is named after the nearby Rue Duroc, which runs parallel to the Rue de Sèvres in the north and at right angles to the Boulevard des Invalides. Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc was a French general and close confidante of Napoleon .

history

A first station, Duroc, went into operation on December 30, 1923 with the opening of line 10. When the route was changed in 1937, this station was assigned to line 14 (since November 9, 1976: line 13), and line 10 received a new station.

On July 27, 1937, the northern extension of line 14 from Montparnasse - Bienvenüe to Duroc - and further on the previous route of line 10 - to Invalides went into operation. Two days later, the new route for line 10 was put into operation. Instead of swiveling north from Vaneau , it was led in a straight line under Rue de Sèvres to the west to Porte d'Auteuil . A crossing structure was built under Place Léon-Paul-Fargue, with the tracks of line 10 crossing under those of line 13. The connection between the Vaneau (line 10) and Duroc (line 13) stations was initially retained as a double-track operating line, but these tracks have now been dismantled.

In 2012 the station on line 13 was equipped with platform screen doors.

description

The two stations have the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, they are L-shaped to each other. They lie under elliptical vaults and have two side platforms on two main tracks. The ceilings and walls are tiled in white, the walls of the station on line 13 follow the curvature of the ellipse. There is a simple track change to the north of the latter station .

The four entrances are on the Place Léon-Paul-Fargue and are characterized by candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .

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  Station of line 10

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  Station of line 13 in front of the installation of the platform screen doors , 2008

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  Platform screen doors in the station of line 13

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  Access rue de Sèvres at the corner of Boulevard des Invalides

vehicles

Conventional MF 67 series trains run on Line 10 . Between 1975 and 1994 trains of the MA series ran , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type .

Line 13 has been used by vehicles from the MF 77 series since 1978 . Before that, MF 67s were on the road, which in turn replaced the Sprague-Thomson trains in 1976.

Trivia

The station of line 10 is signposted as "Durock", 2010

On the occasion of the Rock en Seine music festival , the station on line 10 was signposted as “Durock” for one week in June from 2008 to 2010 and 2012 to 2014.

Web links

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

literature

• Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 94 .
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. 270 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 272.
4. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 271.
5. ↑ Les portes palières at lignes-transports.e-monsite.com, accessed on July 24, 2017.
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. 273.
8. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 311.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 49 ″  N , 2 ° 18 ′ 59 ″  E