Gare de la Bastille

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Gare de Vincennes around 1900
Aerial photograph from 1984

The Gare de la Bastille (until after 1900: Gare de Vincennes ) was a train station in Paris . It was located in the 12th arrondissement between the Rue de Lyon and the Rue de Charenton at the height of the Place de la Bastille, which gave it its name .

The station was built by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est . On September 22, 1859 he was in the presence of the French Emperor Napoleon III. opened. It was the starting point of the 5.4 km long line to Vincennes , which was extended to Sucy-en-Brie in 1872 and to Brie-Comte-Robert in 1875 . In 1892 it reached Verneuil-l'Étang with a length of 54.1 kilometers , where there was a connection to the route to Mulhouse . Initially, the station also served long-distance traffic, after 1871 it became a purely suburban station. Thanks to extensive excursion traffic on the weekends, the number of passengers rose from 12 million in 1871 to 20 million annually in the 1920s.

The building was designed by François-Alexis Cendrier , who primarily planned train stations for the companies Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans and Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon . It was 30 meters wide, 250 meters long and carried an asymmetrical two-aisled station hall . Since the access tracks were on a brick viaduct, the two side and two central platforms were above street level. Four of the six platform tracks were used for tourist traffic, two were reserved for operational purposes. As a result of the cramped conditions, the station had a special feature: in order to bypass the arriving train, the locomotives switched to the adjacent track via transfer platforms in front of the buffer stops . This procedure was practiced until 1964, then push- pull trains could be used that had become free through the electrification of other suburban lines. Until the closure, the line was operated with steam locomotives , most recently tank locomotives of the type 141-TB (wheel arrangement 1'D1 '), which were located in the Nogent Vincennes depot . Between 1945 and 1964 the trains also ran express train wagons that came from the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

The station was closed on December 14, 1969, but parts of the line were integrated into the RER A network on December 14, 1974 . Since then, the station itself has been used for exhibitions of all kinds (e.g. for the French art fair FIAC ). In 1984 it was demolished to make way for the Opéra Bastille .

Web links

Commons : Gare de La Bastille  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Wolfgang Klee and Stefan Vockrodt: To the east: Gare de l'Est and Bastille . In: Railways in Paris = Railway History Special 2 (2015). ISBN 978-3-937189-94-9 , pp. 22-29.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La gare de la Bastille dans les années 1900 at paris1900.lartnouveau.com, accessed on April 6, 2018
  2. ^ Clive Lamming: Le métro parisien. 1900-1945 . Éditions Atlas, Évreux 2011, ISBN 978-2-7312-4739-8 , pp. 3 .
  3. ↑ a b Stefan Vockrodt, Wolfgang Klee: Railways in Paris . In: EisenbahnGeschichte Spezial . tape 2 , 2015, p. 27 ff .
  4. ↑ Ives Broncard: Les dernières années de la vapeur en France . Èditions NM - La vie du rail, Paris 1977, p. 18th f .

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 7 ″  N , 2 ° 22 ′ 14 ″  E