Gare de Lyon (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Gare de Lyon
Édicule Guimard-Gare de Lyon-Bd Diderot.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 01Paris Metro 1.svg 14thParis Metro 14.svg
place 12th arrondissement
opening July 19, 1900
Connected stations Gare de Lyon A.Paris RER A icon.svg D.Paris RER D icon.svg
Line 1 station still without platform screen doors, the widened platform on the left, the glass wall on the far right, behind which the operating track for line 5 is located, 2006
Station of line 14
Facade of the long-distance train station with a 64 m high clock tower

Gare de Lyon is a transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 1 and 14 and is one of the most important transfer hubs in central Paris . With around 85,000 passengers daily, the metro station in 2004 was the third busiest on the Paris metro. You can change to the S-Bahn- like trains of the RER A and RER D at their underground station at Gare de Lyon . In the above-ground long-distance station, the third largest in Paris, a. the TGV trains in the direction of Lyon and Marseille .

location

The metro station is located in the Quartier des Quinze-Vingts the 12th arrondissement of Paris. The station of line 1 is located lengthways under the Boulevard Diderot in front of the main facade of the long-distance train station, the line 14 is located lengthways under the Rue de Bercy.

Surname

The Gare de Lyon train station gives it its name. It is the starting point of the Paris – Marseille railway line, built in the mid-19th century , which leads to the Mediterranean via the city of Lyon, 468 km away .

history

The subway station went into operation on July 19, 1900 with the opening of Line 1, which at the time ran on the section from Porte de Vincennes to Porte Maillot .

Between July 13, 1906 and December 16, 1906, its station was also the temporary terminus of line 5 . The line coming from Place d'Italie initially ended at the Place Mazas station (since 1916: Quai de la Rapée ), the transfer option at the Bastille station had not yet been implemented. Therefore, on the later operating line between Place Mazas and Gare de Lyon, shuttle trains initially ran. From the end of July, the regular trains turned their heads at the Place Mazas station and continued on the single-track route to Gare de Lyon. With the northern extension of line 5 on December 17, 1906, this procedure became obsolete.

During the flooding of the Seine in January 1910, the underground station was flooded meters high. It was not until March 15, 1910 that traffic on Line 1 could be resumed.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the station on Line 1 was converted for traffic with rubber-tyred trains . The platforms were raised in 2009 in view of the introduction of driverless operation on Line 1 and provided with platform screen doors.

The last extension of the metro station was the opening of the station of the fully automated line 14 on October 15, 1998. Since the introduction of driverless operation on line 1 in December 2012, Gare de Lyon is the only Parisian metro station in which exclusively automatic trains run.

description

The station on Line 1 was built in an open construction pit. In contrast to the elliptical cross-section that is more common in Paris , it has a horizontal metal ceiling. Longitudinal girders, which carry small vaults made of bricks, rest on iron support beams that are perpendicular to the direction of travel. It has an unusual length of 123 m for Paris, is 23.9 m wide and now has three tracks. Both platforms were originally central platforms , as the station was intended as a transfer station for a ring line that was not implemented there. The platform in the direction of Château de Vincennes , on the southern edge of which the trains coming from Place Mazas stopped in 1906, now has a glass wall that separates the track leading to Line 5 and Voie des Finances . The northernmost track on the opposite platform was removed and the platform widened, making it a side platform in the direction of La Défense .

To the north of the station, today's operating track joins the main track, followed by a simple track change . At its southern end, the route bends in a tight 90 ° curve from Boulevard Diderot into Rue de Lyon.

The station on line 14 is a rectangular concrete structure with a high ceiling, a glass side wall provides a view of an artificially lit underground tropical garden. The central platform has platform screen doors.

Of the numerous entrances, two located on Boulevard Diderot carry a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style . The Art Nouveau entrance designed by Hector Guimard from the early days - a unique specimen with a canopy resting on three iron pillars - no longer exists; the RATP has built a replica at Châtelet underground station .

vehicles

Initially, trains ran on Line 1, which consisted of a railcar with only one driver's cab and two sidecars . These vehicles were two-axle and each nearly nine meters long. As early as 1902, eight-car trains were formed, each with a railcar at the ends of the train. The railcars were replaced by four-axle vehicles on bogies until 1905, and the sidecars from 1906 . In 1908, green painted five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design entered Line 1, which stayed there until the 1960s. From May 1963, the Sprague-Thomson trains, which ran on rails, were successively replaced by the MP 59 series with rubber-tyred vehicles , until December 1964 there was mixed traffic of the two modes of operation. The MP 89 CC series followed in 1997, which gave way to the MP 05 series with the start of automatic operation .

Trains of the MP 89 CA series run on line 14.

Surroundings

Remarks

  1. ↑ The following station, Arsenal , has been passed through without stopping since September 2, 1939
  2. ^ After the metro accident at Couronnes station in August 1903, both railcars ran one behind the other at the Zugspitze
  3. ↑ Unlike usual, the trains on Line 1 were gray (with a red 1st class car) from the early 1930s
  4. ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
  5. ↑ CA means "Conduite Automatique" (automatically controlled)

Web links

Commons : Gare de Lyon (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sommaire. (PDF; 1.1 MB) (No longer available online.) P. 16 , archived from the original on June 17, 2012 ; Retrieved July 16, 2010 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stif.info
  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. 323 .
  3. ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 112 .
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. , P. 201.
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. , P. 196 f.
  6. ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 216 f .
  7. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. , P. 134.
  8. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  9. ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 92 .
  10. ↑ Les édicules d'Hector Guimard at lartnouveau.com, accessed on August 20, 2017
  11. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. , P. 132 ff.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 41 ″  N , 2 ° 22 ′ 26 ″  E