Falguière (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Falguière
Falguière metro station
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 12Paris Metro 12.svg
place Paris XV
opening November 5, 1910
Cross section of the station
South-western mouth of the tunnel with the direction of travel typical for the north-south stations and a train of the MF 67 series
Access from Place Camille Claudel

Falguière is an underground station on line 12 of the Paris Métro .

location

The metro station is located in the Necker district in the 15th arrondissement of Paris . It lies alongside the Rue de Vaugirard northeast of the Place Camille Claudel.

Surname

It is named after the rue Falguière going off there. Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) was a sculptor and painter who was awarded the Prix ​​de Rome by the Académie Française in 1859 . He is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

history

Line 12 was built as Line A by the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (North-Sud) and operated by it until 1930. With the opening of the first section from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Porte de Versailles , the Falguière station went into operation on November 5, 1910. On March 27, 1931, line A was renamed line 12 after the Nord-Sud had been absorbed by the previously competing Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) the previous year .

description

Under an elliptical , white tiled vault, there are two side platforms on two main tracks. The station has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, sufficient for five-car trains. The platforms are 4.10 m wide, the entire width of the station is 13.50 m. Because of the overhead contact line originally on the north-south routes , it is slightly higher than the CMP stations located under similar vaults. In contrast to the stations set up by the CMP, the side walls do not follow the curvature of the ellipse, but run vertically in the lower area. Typically for the underground stations in the north-south, the station was built a little more splendid than the stations of the CMP.

The only access is on Place Camille Claudel. The NORD-SUD lettering originally affixed there was replaced by METROPOLITAIN after 1930.

vehicles

On line 12, trains of the north-south type Sprague-Thomson ran initially , which differed in several points from the Sprague-Thomson vehicles of the CMP. A striking feature was the power supply of the leading railcar by means of a pantograph . After the takeover of Nord-Sud by CMP, this type of business was given up in the 1930s. In the 1970s, the north-south trains were eliminated in favor of the Sprague-Thomson standard design, and in 1977 modern trains of the MF 67 series came onto the line.

Web links

Commons : Falguière (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. 102 .
  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. 294 .
  3. ↑ a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 295.
  4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
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