Marcel Sembat (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Marcel Sembat
Paris metro - Marcel Sembat - 3.JPG
Tariff zone 2
Line (s) 09Paris Metro 9.svg
place Boulogne-Billancourt
opening February 3, 1934
Access from Place Marcel Sembat

The subway station Marcel Sembat is a station on the line 9 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the southwestern Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt . It lies lengthways under avenue Édouard Vaillant east of Place Marcel Sembat.

Surname

Place Marcel Sembat gives the station its name. The lawyer and journalist Marcel Sembat (1862–1922) was a founding member of the Socialist Party, from 1897 a member of parliament and from 1914 to 1916 a minister.

History and description

The station went into operation on February 3, 1934, when the more than 2000 m long western end section of line 9 from Porte de Saint-Cloud to Pont de Sèvres was opened.

It lies under an elliptical , white-tiled vault, the side walls of which follow the curvature of the ellipse. From the beginning it was built with a length of 105 m, sufficient for seven-car trains.

Of the three entrances, two are at the northern end of the station on both sides of Avenue Édouard Vaillant, and a third is north of Place Marcel Sembat. The latter is marked by a pole with a yellow “M” in a double circle, not far from there is an additional exit with an escalator.

vehicles

Last use of an MF-67 train on line 9 in the Marcel Sembat station

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. ↑ Trains run on five lines of the Paris Métro with pneumatic tires on mobile beams
  2. ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

Web links

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

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 141 .
  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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