Liège (Métro Paris)
 Liège
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| place | Paris VIII , IX |
| opening | February 26, 1911 |
Liège is an underground metro station on line 13 of the Paris Métro .
location
The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier de l'Europe in the 8th arrondissement with the Quartier Saint-Georges in the 9th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue d'Amsterdam at the level of the crossing Rue de Liège.
Surname
It is named after the Rue de Liège. The Belgian city of Liège (fr: Liège) only became its namesake in 1914. This honored the resistance of the local population when the German army took Liège in August of that year. Until the beginning of the First World War , the street was called Rue de Berlin and the station was accordingly called “Berlin”.
history
On February 26, 1911, the first section of today's line 13 as line B of the railway company Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (North-Sud) - and with it their underground station Berlin - between Saint-Lazare and Porte de Saint-Ouen put into operation. At the beginning of the First World War it was closed on August 2, 1914 and reopened four months later under the new name. Line B was renamed Line 13 on March 27, 1931, after the Nord-Sud had merged in the previous year in the previously competing Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP).
At the beginning of the Second World War , the underground station was closed again and only reopened in September 1968. However, it was only allowed limited opening times: on the weekends it was closed at 8 p.m., on Sundays and public holidays it was closed all day. Only after massive protests by citizens, together with the mayors of the arrondissements concerned , in March 2006 , did the Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France give in . Since the beginning of December 2006, Liège has had the same operating hours as all other metro stations.
description
The Liege underground station is an architectural peculiarity. Since the Rue d'Amsterdam was not wide enough to accommodate a station with two side platforms between the foundations of the rows of houses on both sides of the street, a separate station was created for each direction of travel. They are shifted in the longitudinal direction against each other, with the station in the direction of Châtillon - Montrouge north of the junction with the Rue de Liège, the one for the opposite direction south of it. There is no platform on the opposite track, and the trains that run there do not stop.
Both stations are each 75 m long. They lie under elliptical , white tiled vaults and have vertical side walls. Typically for the underground stations in the north-south, they were built somewhat more splendidly than the stations of the CMP and largely correspond to the original design. Ceramic pictures with motifs from the province of Liège were placed in the frame of the advertising space in 1982 .
The only access is in the middle of the street on Rue de Liège west of the above. Crossing. It is marked with a yellow “M” in a double circle.
vehicles
On line 13, trains of the north-south type Sprague-Thomson initially operated , which differed in several points from the Sprague-Thomson vehicles of the CMP. A striking feature was the power supply of the leading railcar by means of a pantograph . After the takeover of Nord-Sud by CMP, this type of business was given up in the 1930s.
New trains of the first post-war MA series were running as early as 1952 . In 1976 they gave way to MF 67 trains, and in 1978 line 13 was the first to receive the MF 77 series, which was still in service there in 2017 .
Remarks
- ^ Accordingly, the station "Allemagne" (Germany) was renamed Jaurès in autumn 1914
- ↑ Only the Commerce underground station has a similar structure
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Les stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 131 .
- ^ 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. 305 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 295.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Gérard Roland: op. Cit. P. 134.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 47 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 37" E