Invalides (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Invalides
Invalides métro entrée.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 08Paris Metro 8.svg 13Paris Metro 13.svg
place Paris VII
opening December 24, 1913
Connected stations Invalides
→C.Paris RER C icon.svg
Routes before and from July 1937, the new route sections are shown with dashed lines

Invalides is an underground transfer station for lines  8 and  13 of the Paris Métro . Since 1979 it has been possible to change to line C of the S-Bahn- like Réseau Express Régional at the underground station Invalides .

location

The metro station is located in the Invalides district of the 7th arrondissement of Paris . It is located under the Esplanade des Invalides park, at the level of the rue Saint-Dominique and rue de l'Université that cross it.

Surname

It is named after the nearby Hôtel des Invalides , a home built between 1671 and 1676 for war- disabled soldiers, which today houses several museums.

History and description

On July 13, 1913, the first section of line 8 between the stations Beaugrenelle (since 1947: Charles Michels ) and Opéra was opened, but only on the following December 24th, the Invalides underground station located next to it. The station of the former line 10 (today: line 13) was put into operation on December 30, 1923. On July 27, 1937, the route of some metro lines in the south of Paris was changed, so that from this point in time line 14 stopped at the station of line 10. This was connected to line 13 on November 9, 1976 and was given the line name. Line number 14 was assigned to a new line in 1998 .

Unused eastern station, two Sprague Thomson cars on the shortened platform , 2012
Station of line 8 with an outgoing train of the MF 77 series
Central platform of line 13, on the right the track to the Wendeschleife, behind the broken wall is the station for the northbound trains
Side platform of line 13 with platform screen door prototypes, 2006

The station of line 8 is immediately west of the Rue de Constantine between the Rue de l'Universitè and the Rue Saint-Dominique. It is 75 m long and has two tracks on two side platforms under an elliptical vaulted ceiling. The white tiled walls follow the curvature of the ellipse. To the east of it, in a separate hall, there is a siding on a now shortened, never-operational platform of the disused connection with line 13 from the direction of Varenne . This track, like a corresponding track with a platform on the west side, was initially laid out for the branch of an unrealized ring line. To the south of the station there is a simple track connection, after which the tracks of line 13 and an operating track are passed under.

Line 10, which opened in 1923, was given its own (end) station to the south-west of it, with two tracks on a central platform for incoming trains. This station is also under a vaulted ceiling and was initially 75 m long. The trains then drove through the large, largely double-track, end loop located under the Esplanade des Invalides and from there reached the Varenne station, which had a third track and was the starting station for line 10. This operating mode was retained when, from 1937, instead of line 10, line 14 ran between Invalides and Duroc .

On November 9, 1976 line 14 was connected to line 13, line number 14 disappeared. The western platform of the ring line project abandoned in 1922, located in a separate hall between the two stations, was extended to 115 m and integrated into the new through station. Since then, the northbound trains have stopped there, those coming from the north use the eastern track of the central platform, which has been brought to the same length. Its western track can now be used from both directions, it only serves the traffic to the turning loop. This is used to park trains and has a connecting track to the La Tour-Maubourg station on line 8.

In 2012, the platforms of Line 13 were fitted with platform screen doors after prototypes of such doors had been installed a few years earlier.

The entrance to the Rue de l'Université has an ascending escalator, it is marked by a pole with a yellow “M” in a double circle.

vehicles

Conventional MF 77 series trains run on Line 8 . Between 1975 and 1980 trains of the MF 67 series ran , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type .

Line 13 has been used by vehicles from the MF 77 series since 1978. Before that, MF 67s were on the road, which in turn replaced the Sprague-Thomson trains in 1976.

Surroundings

Web links

Commons : Invalides (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. 120 .
  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. 240 .
  3. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 270.
  4. ^ Jean Robert: Notre Métro . 2nd Edition. J. Robert, Neuilly-sur-Seine 1983, p. 203 .
  5. ^ A b Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  6. ↑ a b c Jean Tricoire: op.cit. P. 309.
  7. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 245.
  8. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 311.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '24 "  N , 2 ° 21' 4"  E