La Muette (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svg La Muette
La muette.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 09Paris Metro 9.svg
place Paris XVI
opening November 8, 1922
Connected stations Boulainvilliers
→C.Paris RER C icon.svg
Last use of the MF 67 series on line 9, La Muette station on December 14, 2016
La Muette with the MF 01 train

The metro station La Muette is an underground station of line 9 of the Paris Métro . At the Boulainvilliers train station connected to it, you can change to line C of the S-Bahn- like RER network.

location

The station is located in the Quartier de la Muette in the 16th arrondissement of Paris . It is located under the northern end of the Avenue Mozart at its confluence with the Chaussée de la Muette - Avenue Paul Doumer .

Surname

The station is named after the Chaussée de la Muette. This takes its name from the Château de la Muette , a nearby castle that served as a residence for members of the royal family in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was demolished in 1826, and the successor building of the same name, built elsewhere in the 1920s, houses the headquarters of the OECD .

History and description

The station went into operation on November 8, 1922, when the 3.5 km long first section of line 9 from Trocadéro to Exelmans was opened. It was built by the CMP railway company and is 75 m long. In contrast to the elliptical cross-section, which is more common in Paris, the station has a horizontal metal ceiling. Longitudinal girders, which carry small vaults made of bricks, rest on iron support beams that are perpendicular to the direction of travel.

The station has two side platforms on two main tracks. The entrance is on the west side of the Avenue Mozart on the Chaussée de la Muette, it is marked by a candelabra of the type "Val d'Osne". An additional exit with escalator is on the opposite side of the street.

vehicles

Line 9 is operated with conventional vehicles that run on steel rails. Initially, trains of the Sprague-Thomson type , which were last used there, ran. In 1983 the MF 67 series was launched . The MF 01 series has been increasingly used since October 2013, and the last MF 67 train ran on line 9 on December 14, 2016.

Surroundings

Today's Château de la Muette, seat of the OECD
  • Headquarters of the OECD in the successor building of the Château de la Muette built in 1921/22

Remarks

  1. ↑ On several lines of the Paris Métro trains run with pneumatic tires on mobile beams
  2. ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

Web links

Commons : La Muette (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram. 5th edition. Bonneton, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-86253-382-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 127 .
  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. 258 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 260.
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