Metro line 5 (Paris)

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Route length:	14.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Opening:	1906
Passengers (daily) :	236,000
Stations:	22nd
Legend Turning and sidings Bobigny - Pablo Picasso Bobigny depot Grande Ceinture La Folie (planned) Paris – Strasbourg / RER E Canal de l'Ourcq Bobigny - Pantin - Raymond Queneau Sidings Église de Pantin Hoche Turning and sidings Porte de Pantin Ourcq Petite Ceinture Laumière Jaurès Stalingrad Paris – Mulhouse / RER E Gare du Nord Gare du Nord (until October 6, 1942) Connecting track to line 2 and the USFRT Connecting track to line 7 Gare de l'Est Jacques Bonsergent Connecting track to line 3 Connecting track to line 8 Republique Oberkampf Richard-Lenoir Bréguet - Sabin Bastille Arsenal (until September 2, 1939) RER A / RER D Canal Saint-Martin Quai de la Rapée Shuttle train (July 14, 1906 - December 17, 1906) line 1 Gare de Lyon His Gare d'Austerlitz Saint-Marcel Campo Formio Connecting track to line 6 Depot Italy Place d'Italie Connecting track to line 6

The Line 5 of the Paris Métro connects the stations Bobigny - Pablo Picasso in the Northeast and Place d'Italie in the south of Paris .

history

Building history

As early as 1898, consideration had been given to building an E line from Gare de l'Est station to the Pont d'Austerlitz bridge , and plans soon thereafter included an extension across the Seine . The new route should run as line 5 to the end point Place d'Italie . In 1901, the Gare de Lyon station was intended to be the intersection with Line 1 . Due to the steep incline and difficulties in crossing the Rue de Bercy , the planning in this form was abandoned and the Bastille station was chosen for the link . Nevertheless, a single-track line was built from the Gare de Lyon station to the Place Manzas station (today Quai de la Rapée ), which was initially used by commuter trains in the second half of 1906 and, from July 28, by trains on line 5, which stopped at Place Manzas. was driven on. This traffic was stopped on December 17, 1906, the line continues to exist as a service track (connection between lines 1 and 5).

The first section of line 5 was opened on June 2, 1906, the line from the terminus Place d'Italie to Gare d'Orléans (today Gare d'Austerlitz ) at the long-distance station of the same name . The station hall is crossed by the metro at right angles, the station is above the railway tracks. Line 2 Sud had already reached Place d'Italie on April 24, 1906, and the end loop there was initially used by both lines.

On July 14, 1906, the extension to Quai de la Rapée (until 1916 Place Manzas) went into operation. The most complex construction phase was the Viaduc d'Austerlitz , on which the route between the stations Gare d'Austerlitz and Quai de la Rapée crosses the Seine . The steel arch bridge spans the river without intermediate piers over a length of 140 meters so as not to hinder shipping traffic.

On December 17, 1906, the line to Lancry station (now Jacques Bonsergent ) was extended, the traffic to Gare de Lyon ended. The Arsenal station was built between the Quai de la Rapée and Bastille stations. It was closed when the Second World War broke out in 1939 and was not reopened afterwards; the trains pass without stopping. In the 1960s it was used to test new station designs, and is currently used by the RATP for training purposes.

Lines 2 Sud and 5 were combined into line 5 on October 14, 1907. On November 15, 1907, the extension Lancry - Gare du Nord was opened. At the Gare de l'Est and the Gare du Nord, due to the limited space, various tricks had to be carried out in order to be able to run all metro lines here. Line 5 was now the longest in the entire network.

When the colonial exhibition took place in Paris in 1931 , line 5 was withdrawn on May 17 of that year to the section from Gare du Nord to Place d'Italie and the route to Étoile was temporarily served by line 6. At the end of the exhibition this was reversed. In 1936 the Viaduct d'Austerlitz was given a general overhaul.

In 1939, an extension of line 5 from Gare du Nord to the Église de Pantin began . Due to the outbreak of World War II, the construction work dragged on longer than originally planned. On October 6, 1942, new platforms were put into operation at the Gare du Nord, the line was extended on October 12, 1942. Due to the length of the line, it was decided to take line 5 back to Place d'Italie, the former section the 2 brew was carried over to the 6. This also happened on October 12, 1942.

After 40 years, line 5 was extended again, on April 25, 1985 from the Église de Pantin to Bobigny - Pablo Picasso . A new workshop was opened in Bobigny in April 1988 and is also responsible for tram line 1 .

Decommissioning during World War II

When France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, line 5, which at that time ran via Place d'Italie to Étoile , was completely closed , along with other lines . The reasons were the drafting of many Métro employees into the military and the fear of bombing the elevated railway viaducts. The line was not reopened until July 6, 1940.

Renamed stations

During the more than 100-year history of the Paris Metro, the official names of a number of stations have changed. Some stations have even been renamed several times. The following stations were affected on line 5:

Name changes on line 5

today's name	since	previous name (s)
Quai de la Rapée	1916	to 1907: Place Mazas 1907–1916: Pont d'Austerlitz
Gare d'Austerlitz	1979	until 1930: Gare d'Orléans 1930–1970: Gare d'Orléans - Austerlitz
Stalingrad	1946	Lancry
Jacques Bonsergent	1998	Saint-Maur

Automatic train control and protection

A CBTC train control and train protection system has been in operation since July 2015 under the name OCTYS (Open Control of Trains, Interchangeable & Integrated System) . This allows the trains to run every 90 s.

Rolling stock

Until 1978, there were 5 Sprague-Thomson trains in green paint on the line. From that year they were successively replaced by the MF 67 series .

50 multiple units of the MF 01 series are currently in use. In 2010 the first multiple unit was on test drives. Delivery for commercial use began in 2011 and was completed in May 2013.

Picture gallery

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  MF 67 series train on line 5, Bobigny depot on the left

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  The mouth of the tunnel at the Quai de la Rapée station with the MF 01 train

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  MF 67 in blue and white livery when exiting the Gare d'Austerlitz station (towards Place d'Italie), 1994

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  The Viaduc d'Austerlitz over the Seine

literature

• Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 3. Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-915034-32-X .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 3. Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 192-205 .
2. ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 68 .
3. ↑ Le métro parisien sous l'occupation at archivchemindefer.free.fr, accessed on August 20, 2017
4. ↑ Mark Ovenden: op. Cit. , P. 77.
5. ↑ RATP press release of July 15, 2015 ( Memento of the original of September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French), accessed August 11, 2015 
6. ^ Jean Tricoire, 3rd edition, p. 198.
7. ↑ http://www.symbioz.net/index.php?id=83