La Tour-Maubourg (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svg La Tour-Maubourg
Station métro La-Tour-Maubourg - IMG 3414.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 08Paris Metro 8.svg
place Paris VII
opening July 13, 1913
Access with a “Val d'Osne” candelabra
MF 77 series train arriving from Invalides

The metro station La Tour-Maubourg is a station on the line 8 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier des Invalides with the Quartier du Gros-Caillou in the 7th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the beginning of the avenue de la Motte-Piquet at the Esplanade des Invalides park .

Surname

The name is given by the crossing street Boulevard de La Tour-Maubourg. Marie Victor Nicolas de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg (1768–1850) was general in the Prime Empire and Minister of War during the Restoration .

History and description

The station went into operation on July 13, 1913, when the first section of Line 8 from Opéra to Beaugrenelle (since 1947: Charles Michels ) was opened.

It is 75 m long, lies under an elliptical vault and has two side platforms on two main tracks. The ceiling and walls are tiled in white, the side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse. The ceiling is broken roughly in the middle by a pedestrian tunnel.

To the north of the station, a service track joins the track towards Balard from the Invalides loop .

The only access is on the edge of a small park on the east side of the Boulevard de La Tour-Maubourg. It is marked by a “Val d'Osne” candelabra . An additional exit with escalator leads to Rue de Grenelle.

vehicles

Until 1975, Sprague-Thomson trains ran on Line 8 . In that year MF 67 trains came on the line, which were replaced from 1980 by the MF 77 series .

Surroundings

Web links

Commons : La Tour-Maubourg (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. 128 .
  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. ^ 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. 74.
  5. Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 241.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 28 "  N , 2 ° 18 ′ 38"  E