Faidherbe - Chaligny (Paris Métro)
Faidherbe - Chaligny | |
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Tariff zone | 1 |
Line (s) | |
place | Paris XI , XII |
opening | May 5, 1931 |
Faidherbe - Chaligny is an underground station on line 8 of the Paris Métro .
location
The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier Sainte-Marguerite in the 11th arrondissement with the Quartier des Quinze-Vingts in the 12th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine west of the confluence of the Rue de Chaligny.
Surname
The station is named after the nearby streets Rue Faidherbe and Rue de Chaligny. The General Louis Faidherbe (1818-1889) was governor of the French colony of Senegal , the French German War 1870-71 he commanded the Northern Army . Chaligny is the family name of a Lorraine iron foundry dynasty , whose best-known representative Antoine Chaligny (1580-1651) the equestrian statue of Duke Charles III. created in Nancy .
History and description
The station was put into operation on May 5, 1931, when, at the beginning of the colonial exhibition in the Bois de Vincennes, the section from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Charenton of line 8 was opened. Under an elliptical, white-tiled vaulted ceiling, it has side platforms on two parallel tracks and was built with a length of 105 m to accommodate seven-car trains.
The three entrances are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style and bearing the word METRO.
vehicles
During the colonial exhibition in 1931, seven-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design ran at the station ; 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
- ↑ 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. 5th edition. Bonneton, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-86253-382-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 102 .
- ↑ a b 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. 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 ° 51 ′ 1 ″ N , 2 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E