George V (Paris Métro)
 George V
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris VIII |
| opening | August 13, 1900 |
The Metro Station George V is an underground station of Line 1 of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located on the border of the Quartier du Faubourg du Roule and the Quartier des Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris . It is located along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées not far from Place Charles-de-Gaulle .
Surname
Initially, the station was named "Alma" after the nearby Avenue de l'Alma. It was reminiscent of the Battle of the Alma in the Crimean War , when the French and British jointly defeated the Russian army on September 20, 1854.
Avenue George V has been named since May 27, 1920, after Avenue de l'Alma was renamed accordingly on July 14, 1918. Its name honors the English King George V , under whose reign the British Army rushed to the aid of the French during World War I.
History and description
On August 13, 1900, less than a month after Line 1 opened, the station was opened as one of the first Parisian underground stations. Until then, the trains drove through without stopping. Line 1 operated between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot at the time .
The station is located under an elliptical vaulted ceiling, it has curved side walls and side platforms on two main tracks. At the beginning of the 1960s, it was extended from 75 m to 90 m and converted for traffic with rubber-tyred trains . At the end of 2008 it was completely renovated in the course of the introduction of driverless operation on Line 1. The platforms were raised and platform screen doors were installed.
Your two entrances are on either side of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées at the junction with the Rue de Bassano. The neoclassical stone parapets framing the entrances were designed by Joseph Cassien-Bernard .
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, five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design painted in dark green appeared on Line 1, and they stayed there until the 1960s. From May 1963, the Sprague-Thomson trains running on rails were successively replaced by vehicles with rubber tires (six-car trains of the MP 59 series ), 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 .
Surroundings
Remarks
- ↑ After the metro accident at Couronnes station in 1903, both railcars ran one behind the other at the Zugspitze
- ↑ In contrast to the other lines, the trains on line 1 were light gray from the early 1930s (with the red 1st class car)
- ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 113 .
- ^ 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. 130 .
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 134.
- ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 30 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132 ff.
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Charles de Gaulle - Étoile ← La Défense |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Château de Vincennes → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 19 ″ N , 2 ° 18 ′ 2.8 ″ E