Exelmans (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Exelmans
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Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 09Paris Metro 9.svg
place Paris XVI
opening November 8, 1922

The Metro Station Exelmans is a station on the line 9 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier d' Auteuil in the 16th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue Michel-Ange at the intersection with the Boulevard Exelmans.

Surname

The name gives the Boulevard Exelmans. The brigadier Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans (1775-1852) was in the battles at Prussian Eylau and at Ligny involved. During the battle at Rocquencourt on July 1, 1815, he defeated part of the Prussian army . In 1851 he was by Napoleon III. appointed Marshal of France .

History and description

The station opened on November 8, 1922. On that day, the 3.5 km long first section of line 9 from Trocadéro to Exelmans went into operation. Until September 29, 1923, the station was the southwest end point of the line.

It was built by the CMP railway company and is 75 m long. The two tracks and the side platforms lie under white-tiled, elliptical vaults, the side walls follow their curvature.

The two entrances are on the south side of Boulevard Exelmans on both sides of Rue Michel-Ange. They are marked by candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the style of Art Deco .

vehicles

Line 9 is operated with conventional vehicles that run on steel rails. Initially, trains of the Sprague-Thomson type , which were last used there, ran. In 1983 the MF 67 series was launched . The MF 01 series has been increasingly used since October 2013, and the last MF 67 train ran on line 9 on December 14, 2016.

Surroundings

The Parc des Princes rugby and football stadium is nearby .

Remarks

  1. ↑ The stations built by the Nord-Sud railway company, which competed until 1929, have vertical walls under elliptical ceilings
  2. ↑ Trains run on five lines of the Paris Métro with pneumatic tires on mobile beams
  3. ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

Web links

Commons : Exelmans (Paris Metro)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 101 .
  2. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . La Vie du Rail, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 258.
  3. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . La Vie du Rail, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 258.
  4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 74.
  6. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 260.
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