Maison Blanche (Paris Metro)
 Maison Blanche
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| opening | March 7, 1930 |
The metro station Maison Blanche is an underground station of Line 7 of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located in the Quartier de la Maison-Blanche in the 13th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Avenue d'Italie north of the intersecting street Boulevard Kellermann - Boulevard Masséna.
Surname
The station is named after the Parisian district of the same name. This takes its name from a former hamlet in which there is said to have been an inn, also called "Maison Blanche" (White House).
History and description
The station was first opened on March 7, 1930 as part of line 10 . At the time, this was extended from Place d'Italie to Porte de Choisy station. On April 26, 1931, the section from Place Monge to Porte de Choisy was assigned to line 7 - as planned - after it had been crossed under the Seine .
Line 7 has been forked south of the station since December 10, 1982. The trains running south ran alternately to Mairie d'Ivry and via the new branch to Le Kremlin-Bicêtre . In 1985 this branch was extended by three stations to Villejuif - Louis Aragon .
In 1930 the station was the first in the Metro network to receive modern escalators. It was also developed as a prototype for an air raid shelter. For this purpose, it was equipped with gas-tight lockable doors and gates and an air renewal system. The gates installed in the underground tunnel are still there.
On October 6, 1995, an attack was carried out in the station. A gas cylinder filled with nails injured 18 people in its explosion.
Under an elliptical , white-tiled ceiling vault, the station has side platforms on two parallel tracks. Their side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse. Already during construction it was laid out with the unusual length of 105 m, theoretically sufficient for seven-car trains.
Of the four entrances, two are at the intersection mentioned above, two more north on Avenue d'Italie north of the junction with Rue Tagore. Three of them are marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style with the word METRO.
outlook
Plans call for line 14 to be extended from Olympiades station to Villejuif - Louis Aragon and also to have a station at Maison Blanche underground station.
vehicles
Conventional five-car trains of the MF 77 series run on Line 7 . Between 1971 and 1979 trains of the MF 67 series ran there , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type .
Surroundings
The Asian quarter is located nearby .
Web links
- 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
- ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 138 .
- ^ 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. 225 .
- ↑ a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 227.
- ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 233 .
- ↑ Attentats de 1995: Ramda jugé à Paris at lexpress.fr, accessed on August 24, 2017.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Tolbiac ← La Courneuve - May 8, 1945 |
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Porte d'Italie Mairie d'Ivry → |
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Tolbiac ← La Courneuve - May 8, 1945 |
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Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Villejuif - Louis Aragon → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 20 ″ N , 2 ° 21 ′ 31 ″ E