Maraîchers (Métro Paris)

Maraîchers
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris XX
opening	December 10, 1933

Class MF 67 train entering the station, 2011

The Metro Station Maraîchers is an underground station of line 9 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier de Charonne in the 20th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue d'Avron east of the crossing Rue des Pyrénées.

Surname

The rue des Maraîchers, which also crosses rue d'Avron, gives its name. The Maraîchers (vegetable gardeners), who had settled east of Paris, contributed to supplying the city with fruit and vegetables from the reign of Henry IV (1572–1610).

History and description

The station went into operation on December 10, 1933 when line 9 was extended by 6430 m from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Montreuil . It has two side platforms on two main tracks and was built with a length of 105 m. The cross-section is elliptical , the side walls are tiled in white.

The three entrances are in the Rue des Pyrénées on both sides of the intersection with the Rue d'Avron. They are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .

vehicles

Line 9 is operated with conventional vehicles that run on steel rails. Initially, trains of the Sprague-Thomson type , which were last used there, ran. In 1983 the MF 67 series was launched . The MF 01 series has been increasingly used since October 2013, and the last MF 67 train ran on line 9 on December 14, 2016.

Remarks

1. ↑ The standard length of the stations opened before 1928 was 75 m
2. ↑ On several lines of the Paris Métro trains run with pneumatic tires on mobile beams
3. ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

Web links

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

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. 139 .
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. 259 .
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. 260.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 10 "  N , 2 ° 24 ′ 23"  E