Metro line 9 (Paris)
The line 9 of the Paris Metro is the first line, on the city limits in the suburbs has been extended. Today it connects the suburbs of Boulogne-Billancourt in the west and Montreuil in the east with the districts of the right bank of the Seine , where you can find the big boulevards and shops.
history
Building history
The first section of this line from Porte de Saint-Cloud via Trocadéro to Opéra was intended as a feeder route to a second inner city ring. Here, too, there were various difficulties with building in the city center.
Exelmans - Trocadéro as the first section was opened on November 8, 1922. The following year three sections followed: Trocadéro - Saint-Augustin on May 27th, Saint-Augustin - Chaussée d'Antin on June 3rd and Exelmans - Porte de Saint-Cloud on September 29th.
When building the end point at Porte de Saint-Cloud, the approach was very practical: instead of the usual turning loop, sweeping tracks were built in order to be able to extend it later in the direction of Boulogne.
At the Porte de Saint-Cloud station, a track from Porte Molitor reaches line 9. This was intended to serve the Parc des Princes stadium (more on line 10 ). Due to the expected heavy traffic, the Porte de Saint-Cloud station was expanded very generously: 5 tracks with 3 platforms. However, the project never came to fruition.
Decided at the beginning of the century, the extension to the Richelieu-Drouot station did not go into operation until June 30, 1928.
In 1922, the city council decided to build a metro line Porte de Montreuil - République and link it with line 9. This allowed the residents of the 19th and 20th arrondissements to travel to the city center. On December 10, 1933, the Richelieu-Drouot - Porte de Montreuil section was opened. The connecting section between the old and the new line branch between Richelieu-Drouot and République is used together with line 8 in a double-decker tunnel. This made line 9 with 31 stations the longest on the network at the time.
In October 1929, the Seine department and the Paris metro companies had signed an agreement. It was decided to extend the metro lines at fifteen points to the suburbs. Line 9 was the first to benefit: on February 3, 1934, it went 2 kilometers from Porte de Saint-Cloud to Pont de Sèvres , and on October 14, 1937, the 2.5-kilometer extension Porte de Montreuil - Mairie de Montreuil in Business.
Second World War
When France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, the central section of line 9 between Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette and Nation was completely closed. The reason was that many Métro employees were drafted into the military. It was not until September 30, 1939 that the line was operated continuously again.
Renaming of stations
During the more than 100-year history of the Paris Metro, the official names of a number of stations have changed. Some names have even been renamed several times. The following stations are affected on line 9:
| today's name | Year of renaming | previous name (s) |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1947 | until 1942: Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées; 1942–1946: Marbeuf - Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées |
| Grands Boulevards | 1998 | Rue Montmartre |
| Rue des Boulets | 1998 | Boulets - Montreuil |
Rolling stock
From the opening of line 9, Sprague-Thompson cars were used, initially in three-part sets with two railcars and a non-motorized sidecar in between, soon afterwards with two sidecars. From 1974 they were gradually replaced by trains of the MF 67 series. The last Sprague-Thompson trains were withdrawn from the line in April 1983.
The MF 67 series is now about to be replaced by the MF 01 series : 66 five-part MF 01 series trains have been ordered for line 9. This is the third and final installment of an order from Alstom for a total of 200 trains. They have been delivered since summer 2013, but were initially used on Line 5 for test purposes . The first train of this series was used on Line 9 on October 21, 2013. The delivery should be completed by the end of 2016 and all MF 67 trains will be replaced.
Operational innovations
In 1970 line 9 was equipped with a central route control center called PCC . In 1975, the semi-automated train operation, called PA = pilotage automatique , which was first used by the Paris Metro in 1957 , was also introduced on Line 9.
Passenger numbers and driving operations
For the year 2009 around 127 million passengers were determined. After lines 1, 4 and 7, line 9 ranks fourth among the Paris metro lines in terms of passenger numbers. The line between the Saint Augustin and Miromesnil stations in the direction of Miromesnil is the most heavily used with 14,000 passengers per hour during rush hour. The minimum time interval between two successive metro trains on line 9 is 110 seconds.
Boulogne-Billancourt depot
The access track to the depot branches off from the main line at the northern end of Billancourt station . The depot was built in 1934. A renewal was urgently needed to maintain the new MF01 series trains. The RATP decided to demolish the old depot completely and to rebuild it from scratch. The handover is planned for 2015.
Planned route extensions
By 2025, the line in the east is to be extended beyond the current terminus Mairie de Montreuil by two more stations - also located in Montreuil. Seven additional train sets are required for this. The extension of the route would create connections to the extended metro line 11 and to the extension of line 1 of the Paris tram .
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
- ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 70 .
- ↑ Mark Ovenden: op. Cit. , P. 77.
- ↑ La RATP commande des nouvelles rames à Alstom ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Report of the daily newspaper Le Figaro from July 25, 2011 (French), accessed on September 14, 2014
- ↑ http://www.symbioz.net/index.php?id=83 Overview: The trains of the MF 01 series (French)
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ New trains for line 9 ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Communication RATP (French)
- ↑ a b STIF master plan: Rolling stock of the Paris Metro from December 11, 2013 (pdf in French), accessed on September 14, 2014
- ↑ Communication from RATP L9: Réaménagement du site de maintenance ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2014 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 September 8, 2014
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