Metro line 7 (Paris)

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Metro line 7 (Paris)
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Route length: 18.6 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Opening: 1910
Passengers (daily) : 332,000
Stations: 38
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Turning and sidings
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La Courneuve - May 8, 1945 T1Paris Tram 1.svg
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Fort d'Aubervilliers
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Aubervilliers - Pantin - Quatre Chemins
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La Villette depot
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Turning loop
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Paris – Strasbourg / RER E
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Canal Saint-Denis
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Petite Ceinture
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Corentin Cariou
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Crimée
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Riquet
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Line 7bis
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Château-Landon
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Connecting track to line 5
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RER B / RER D
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Poissonnière
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Cadet
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Le Peletier
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Connecting track to line 3
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Pont Neuf
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Pont Marie
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Sully - Morland
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His
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Connecting track to line 10
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Place Monge
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Censier - Daubenton
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Les Gobelins
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Connecting track to line 6
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Tolbiac
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Maison Blanche
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Petite Ceinture
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Choisy depot
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Pierre and Marie Curie
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Mairie d'Ivry
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Le Kremlin-Bicetre
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Villejuif - Léo Lagrange
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Villejuif - Paul Vaillant-Couturier
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The line 7 of the Paris Métro links the resorts La Courneuve - 8 May 1945 in the Northeast and Villejuif - Luis Aragon or Mairie d'Ivry to the southeast of Paris . It is the line with most of the stations in the metro network; 67 MF 77 trains are used there in rush hour traffic. In 2004, lines 7 and 7 carried up to 120.5 million people - the same number as in 1992. In 2009 there were 129 million passengers.

history

Opening the line

Line 7 was actually planned as a connection from the Palais Royal to the northeast of the city. However, one could not agree on the terminal stations. The state forbade z. B. the underpass of the Louvre , but at the Palais Royal itself there was too little space for a terminus. So this was planned at the Opéra . There was also no agreement on the location of the terminus in the northeast, so it was decided to build it into a roundabout. A branch to the Porte de la Villette should be added to this line . The original plan was to continue to build the route to the Bastille .

Due to difficult subsurface conditions, the Opéra - Porte de la Villette line actually went into operation on November 5, 1910. Lines 3, 7 and 8 cross today at the Opéra station .

Extensions before World War II

On January 18, 1911, the branch from Louis Blanc to Pré-St.-Gervais was added. The Louis Blanc station consists of 2 platforms, one for north and one for south. It was also planned to continue building this branch line to Porte des Lilas station on line 3. This extension was also built, but never put into operation. There is even a train station called Haxo .

On July 1, 1916, an extension from Opéra to Palais Royal was added. A turning loop was now dispensed with, as further construction was already being considered.

On April 16, 1926, the Pont Marie was reached. This extension on the right bank of the Seine brought with it some difficulties: an almost forgotten canal, walls of the fortifications of old Paris and ultimately the foundations of the former Châtelet prison required some effort.

The section to Sully-Morland (then Pont Sully ) followed on June 3, 1930, and Place Monge was reached on April 26, 1931 . Part of the latter section was opened on March 7, 1930 as a section of line 10 and has now been integrated into line 7. This section was also extended to Porte d'Ivry on April 26, 1931 .

Second World War

When France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, the section of line 7 south of the Place d'Italie underground station was completely closed. The reason was that many Métro employees were drafted into the military. It was reopened on September 30, 1939.

After the Second World War

Two type MF 77 trains at the
Mairie d'Ivry terminus

After the Second World War it was extended again: Porte d'Ivry - Marie d'Ivry on May 1, 1946.

Since the section from Louis Blanc to Pré-Saint-Gervais is not as heavily frequented as that to the Porte de la Villette , it was converted into the independent line 7bis on December 3, 1967.

On October 4, 1979, line 7 in the north was extended by two more stations: Porte de la Villette - Fort d'Aubervilliers . The construction of this 2,346 meter long extension took 3 years.

A new branch line began to be built at the southern end, the first section Maison Blanche - Le Kremlin-Bicêtre was opened on December 10, 1982. Another section to the Villejuif-Louis Aragon station was added on February 28, 1985.

On May 6, 1987, the last extension of line 7 from Fort d'Aubervilliers to La Courneuve-8 May 1945 was put into operation at the northern end .

Name changes of 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 7:

Name changes on line 7
today's name since previous name (s)
Châtelet 1934 until 1926: Pont Notre Dame
1926–1934: Pont Notre Dame - Pont au Change
Stalingrad 1946 until 1942: Aubervilliers
1942–1946: Aubervilliers - Boulevard de la Villette
Palais Royal - Musee du Louvre 1989 Palais Royal
Pierre and Marie Curie 2007 Marie Curie

Technical innovations

In 1969 line 7 was equipped with a central control center, called PCC , and since 1977 the vehicles on line 7 have been on the road with the semi-automatic Pilotage Automatique control system .

Line 7 vehicles

Initially, trains with five wagons each 10.85 meters long were used. Three cars were each motorized. Since the line was only underused, after just a few days of operation, the company switched to 4-part trains with two motor vehicles. It was not until 1923 that 5-part trains were used again.

From 1971 new vehicles of the type MF 6 7 were used, although the conversion lasted until October 1973. The Sprague-Thomson vehicles that became available were handed over to line 12. Finally, vehicles of the type MF 77 have been in use since 1979 .

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 .

Web links

Commons : Métrolinie 7 (Paris)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ STIF statistics p. 16 (French), accessed on November 19, 2011
  2. Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 77 .