Les Gobelins (Métro Paris)

Les Gobelins
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris V , XIII
opening	February 15, 1930

The Metro Station Les Gobelins is an underground station of Line 7 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier de Croulebarbe with the Quartier de la Salpêtrière in the 13th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under the Avenue des Gobelins south of its intersection with the Boulevard Arago - Boulevard Saint-Marcel.

Surname

Manufacture des Gobelins

It is named after the Avenue des Gobelins. This takes its name from the Manufacture des Gobelins , a company founded in 1607 tapestry - manufacturer , its predecessor operation in the 15th century by the dyer was built Jean tapestry.

History and description

The station was put into operation on February 15, 1930. Since the crossing under the Seine for line 7 was not yet completed, line 10 was temporarily extended from Odéon to Place d'Italie on the route built for this using an operating line . On April 26, 1931, its southern section - which had meanwhile been extended to Porte de Choisy - and thus the Les Gobelins station, was then assigned to line 7 brought up from Sully - Morland .

Under an elliptical , white-tiled ceiling vault, the station has side platforms on two parallel tracks. Already during construction it was laid out with the unusual length of 105 m, theoretically sufficient for seven-car trains.

There are two entrances each at the south and north end of the station on both sides of the Avenue des Gobelins. The northern entrances are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style with the word METRO.

vehicles

Conventional five-car trains of the MF 77 series run on Line 7 . Between 1971 and 1979 trains of the MF 67 series ran there , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type .

Web links

Commons : Les Gobelins (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Pierre Miquel: Petite histoire des stations de métro . 2nd Edition. Albin Michel, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-226-21778-3 .
• Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 130 .
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. 225 .
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. 227 and 245.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 12 ″  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 6 ″  E