Grands Boulevards (Métro Paris)
 Grands Boulevards
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| place | Paris II , IX |
| opening | May 5, 1931 |
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Grands Boulevards is a double underground station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 8 and 9 .
location
The metro station is located on the border of the Quartiers du Mail and Vivienne in the 2nd arrondissement with the Quartier du Faubourg Montmartre in the 9th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways below the Boulevard Poissonnière at the level of the Rue Montmartre.
Surname
Named the metro station is on the Grands Boulevards , the north of on the Seine nearby Rive Droite a semicircular transport corridor between the Place de la Madeleine and the Place de la Bastille form. This includes the Boulevard Poissonnière between the Boulevard Montmartre and the Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle.
Initially the station was called "Montmartre" after the rue Montmartre that flows into it. This road once led to the village of Montmartre outside the city, the origin of which is not clearly known. Since strangers often mistakenly mistook the station for the underground station closest to the Butte Montmartre elevation , the name was changed to "Grands Boulevards" in the summer of 1998.
history
The station on line 8 was put into operation on May 5, 1931, just in time one day before the opening of the Paris Colonial Exhibition. On that day the line from Richelieu - Drouot was extended by approx. 8000 m to Porte de Charenton .
Trains on line 9 first ran there on December 10, 1933 as part of the extension of the line from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Montreuil .
description
The stations of lines 8 and 9 are aligned one above the other, with line 9 using the lower level. They each have side platforms on two main tracks, massive supporting walls between the tracks, which are perforated in some places, give the impression of four single-track stations. The station on line 9 is rectangular, that of line 8 above has asymmetrically vaulted ceilings. Both stations were built from the start with a length of 105 m.
There are six entrances from the street, some of which are marked by candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .
vehicles
First, seven-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson type ran on line 8 . From 1975 onwards, MF 67 trains came on line 8, which were replaced by the MF 77 series from 1980 . Since not all stations on Line 8 have been extended accordingly, only five-car trains are in use there today.
Sprague-Thomson trains, which were last used there, also ran on line 9 for decades. The MF 67 series was launched in 1983, and the MF 01 series has been increasingly used since October 2013 . On December 14, 2016, the last MF-67 train ran on line 9.
Surroundings
The Musée Grévin wax museum is located on the nearby Boulevard Montmartre .
Remarks
- ↑ Because the stations of line 8 to the west of Richelieu - Drouot were initially only 75 m long, the last two wagons of a train continued to run empty from there, as they did not reach the edge of the platform
- ↑ The last Sprague Thomson train in regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abesses à Wagram. 5th edition. Éditions Bonneton, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-86253-382-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 116 .
- ↑ a b 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. 241 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 259.
- ^ 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. 260.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Richelieu - Drouot ← Balard |
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Bonne Nouvelle Pointe du Lac → |
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Richelieu - Drouot ← Pont de Sèvres |
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Bonne Nouvelle Mairie de Montreuil → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 17 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 36" E