Les Halles (Paris Metro)
 Les Halles
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris I |
| opening | April 27, 1908 |
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Châtelet - Les Halles →   
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Les Halles is an underground station on line 4 of the Paris Métro . You can change to the S-Bahn -like RER lines A , B and D at the Châtelet - Les Halles station, which is connected underground . Together with the five stations of the Châtelet underground station , they form the most important junction in the Paris metro and rapid transit network. With around 35,000 passengers a day, Les Halles station was one of the twenty most heavily frequented stations on the Métro in 2004.
location
The station is located in the Quartier des Halles in the 1st arrondissement of Paris . It is located under a park at the Forum des Halles shopping center between Rue Rambuteau and Rue Berger.
Surname
It is named after the former market halls Halles de Paris . The site was created as a public marketplace in 1135, and permanent buildings were added in 1183. From 1850 to 1856 ten steel halls were built, which were demolished between 1971 and 1974 after the wholesale market was relocated to Rungis .
history
The original station went into operation on April 27, 1908, six days after the opening of the first section of Line 4 from Porte de Clignancourt to Châtelet . In 1977 this station was given up in favor of a new building a few meters further east (opened on October 3, 1977). This solution simplified the transfer to the Châtelet - Les Halles RER station, which opened on December 9, 1977. The old station and the feeding tunnels were demolished.
description
The first station had side platforms on two parallel tracks under an elliptical, white-tiled vaulted ceiling with curved side walls. It was built in Belgian construction and had the Paris standard length of 75 m. In the mid-1960s it was extended to 90 m.
The current station was built in an open excavation. Its cross-section is rectangular, it is 110 m long. From the street, it has only one entrance in Rue Rambuteau.
vehicles
Until 1928, 5-car trains consisting of initially three twin-engine and later two four-engine railcars and sidecars ran on Line 4 . They were replaced by Sprague-Thomson trains , which were successively replaced by rubber-tired 6-car trains of the MP 59 series in 1966/67 . The MP 89 CC series is currently in use on Line 4 .
Surroundings
- Park Jardin Nelson-Mandela (until 2010: Jardin des Halles) on the site of the former wholesale market halls
- Saint-Eustache parish church on rue Rambuteau
Remarks
- ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . Bonneton, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sommaire. (PDF; 1.1 MB) (No longer available online.) P. 16 , archived from the original on June 17, 2012 ; Retrieved July 16, 2010 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 130 f .
- ↑ a b c 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. 183 f .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 184.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Étienne Marcel ← Porte de Clignancourt |
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Châtelet Mairie de Montrouge → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 44.6 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 45.5" E