Kléber (Métro Paris)
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| opening | October 2, 1900 |
Kléber is an underground station on line 6 of the Paris Métro .
location
The metro station is located in the Quartier de Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under the Avenue Kléber not far from Place Charles-de-Gaulle .
Surname
The avenue Kléber gives it its name. The architect and later general Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800) defeated the numerically far superior Ottoman army in the battle of Heliopolis in Egypt .
history
The station was put into operation on October 2, 1900, when the section from Étoile (since 1970: Charles de Gaulle - Étoile ) to Trocadéro was opened as the first section of the then line 2 Sud. On October 14, 1907, the previously independent line 2 Sud , which had been running since April 24, 1906 to Place d'Italie, was abandoned and its route to the southwest end section of line 5 (Étoile - Gare du Nord ). On October 6, 1942, the route was changed again, so that line 6 has been running at the station since then.
In the early 1970s, the station was fundamentally rebuilt. On both sides of the previous station, another track was built with a platform on the left. The tracks were converted for traffic with rubber-tyred trains .
description
Originally it was a metro station of the type often used in Paris, with elliptical, tiled ceiling vaults, the side platforms of which were located on two main tracks. Since the capacity of the nearby single-track terminus Charles de Gaulle - Étoile could not be increased, the Kleber station was expanded.
The platforms on the two newly created tracks were connected to the side platforms of the old station via large wall breakthroughs in such a way that there are now in fact two central platforms on two main tracks. In order to ensure the rapid passage of the trains at the terminus Charles de Gaulle - Étoile, which has only one platform within the turning loop of line 6, the trains here are again adjusted to the timing. To do this, they stand still for a certain time, so it can happen that several trains are standing in the station and waiting to continue their journey.
Two parallel tracks come from Charles de Gaulle - Étoile, there is a track and a siding. In the other direction there is another siding to the west of the line, which almost extends to the next Boissière station . There are simple platform changes on both sides of the underground station .
The two entrances were designed in Art Nouveau style by Hector Guimard . They are located on both sides of the avenue Kléber, approximately at the level of the avenue des Portugais which opens there.
vehicles
Before 1906, the section of today's line 6 was only used by four-car trains made up of two-axle vehicles because of the short platforms at the temporary terminal in Passy . Trains of the Sprague-Thomson type followed from around 1910 . In July 1974 the line was switched to vehicles with rubber tires, and the MP 73 series has been operating there ever since .
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 124 .
- ↑ 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. 210 f .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 134.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 17 ″ N , 2 ° 17 ′ 36 ″ E