Lourmel (Métro Paris)

Lourmel
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris XV
opening	July 27, 1937

The former counter hall is at the north end of the station behind glass across the tracks

Two trains of the MF 77 series , on the left to Balard , on the right on the track to the workshop

The subway station Lourmel is an underground station line 8 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier de Javel in the 15th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the avenue Félix Faure at the intersection with the rue de Lourmel.

Surname

The name gives the Rue de Lourmel. Frédéric Henri Le Normand de Lourmel (1811-1854) was a brigadier general who was killed in the Battle of Inkerman in the Crimea .

History and description

On July 27, 1937, the station went into operation when the section from La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle to Balard of line 8 was opened. On that day, their old route from La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle to Porte d'Auteuil was abandoned and this section of the route was assigned to line 10 .

The station is located under an elliptical , white-tiled vault. From the beginning it was built with a length of 105 m, sufficient for seven-car trains. It has three tracks on a side and a middle platform. Southeastern Railway at central platform is a railway siding , the traffic to and from the nearby company workshop serves Ateliers de Javel. This is in the direction of the city center and is reached by turning the head of the trains. The subway station can be seen through a glass wall from the former counter hall.

The only access is at the intersection mentioned above, it is marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style with the word METRO.

vehicles

Despite the length of the platforms, only five-car trains were ever used, as five stations on line 8 are still only 75 m long. Trains of the Sprague-Thomson type ran until 1975 . In that year MF 67 trains came on the line, which were replaced from 1980 by the MF 77 series .

Web links

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

• Plan of the tracks and platforms at carto.metro.free.fr

literature

• 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. 135 .
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. 243 .
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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