Gambetta (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Gambetta
A train on line 3
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 03Paris Metro 3.svg 03bisParis Metro 3 bis.svg
place 20th arrondissement
opening November 27, 1921
The departure station (today the terminus of line 3bis) under construction
Terminal station of line 3bis and transfer tunnel (former route tunnel) to line 3
Gambetta station from 1969, in the background the disused Martin Nadaud station

Gambetta is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 3 and 3bis .

location

The station is in the 20th arrondissement of Paris .

Surname

It was named after Avenue Gambetta , under which the train station is located. Léon Gambetta was a French statesman of the Third Republic and a member of the 20th arrondissement. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71, as Minister of the Government of National Defense, he was head of the resistance in the province.

History and description

First train station

Line 3 was put into operation between Villiers and Père Lachaise on October 19, 1904. On January 25, 1905, it was extended by two stations from Père Lachaise via Martin Nadaud to Gambetta. The Gambetta terminus was on a counter-clockwise end loop. Shortly after the beginning of the station, under Rue Belgrand, was the arrival station, a central platform between two tracks. The departure station was also set up shortly before the end of the loop. The two-track design of the sub-stations resulted from the fact that possible route extensions were already planned. The tunnel continued under Rue Belgrand for about 300 meters to the Ateliers de Saint-Fargeau depot .

On November 27, 1921, line 3 was extended from Gambetta to Porte des Lilas . For this purpose, a short single-track tunnel was created, which connected the end loop with the new line tunnel from around the middle. As a result, the loop was largely passed through by the regular trains. The originally planned extension beyond the new terminus to the suburb of Les Lilas was discarded in favor of the construction of Métrolinie 11 .

Second train station

On March 27, 1971, line 3 was extended from Gambetta under Rue Belgrand beyond the depot to the Gallieni station. The poorly used branch between Gambetta and Porte des Lilas was separated from the main branch of line 3 as part of the extension, the original departure platform became the terminus of the newly created shuttle line 3bis (German equivalent: 3a). The direct connection between the two lines was abandoned and the tunnel section was rebuilt for pedestrians, only the track created in 1921 has been used as an operating track since then.

For line 3, the nearby Martin Nadaud station was moved one station length to the east. The previous side platforms now serve as entrances to the new ones, and the previous entrance and ticket hall have also been retained. The new facility, which opened on August 23, 1969, was named Gambetta. Including the platforms of the disused Martin Nadaud station , the station on Line 3 is 196 meters and is the longest in the Paris metro network.

The former arrival platform of the old Gambetta station gave way to a siding between the main tracks and a narrow operating platform.

vehicles

Conventional vehicles run at the station; the Sprague-Thomson type was replaced by the MF 67 series in 1967 . These trains, which were modernized between 2005 and 2008, are to be replaced on line 3bis from 2026 and on line 3 from 2028 by those of the MF 19 series .

Web links

Commons : Gambetta (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. 108 f .
  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. 163 .
  3. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor. P. 167 f.
  4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  5. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor. P. 168 ff.
  6. ↑ Jean-Gabriel Bontinck: Métro: ligne par ligne, découvrez quand les nouvelles arriveront rames. In: Le Parisien . April 11, 2019, accessed on June 6, 2020 (Fri-FR).
Previous station Paris metro Next station
Père Lachaise
←  Pont de Levallois - Bécon 		Paris Metro 3.svg Porte de Bagnolet
Gallieni  →
final destination Paris Metro 3 bis.svg Pelleport
Porte des Lilas  →

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '54 "  N , 2 ° 23' 54"  E