Montgallet (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Montgallet
Station métro Montgallet - 20130606 160627.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 08Paris Metro 8.svg
place Paris XII
opening May 5, 1931
Access to Art Deco - candelabrum
Train of the series MF 77

The Metro Station Montgallet is an underground station of the line 8 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier de Picpus in the 12th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue de Reuilly at the level of the Rue Montgallet, which leads from there.

Surname

It is named after the Rue Montgallet. Their original name Rue Mangallé can already be traced back to 1709 and probably referred to a landowner with a similar or the same surname.

History and description

The station was put into operation on May 5, 1931, when, at the beginning of the colonial exhibition in the Bois de Vincennes, the section from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Charenton of line 8 was opened. Under an elliptical, white-tiled vaulted ceiling, it has side platforms on two parallel tracks and was built with a length of 105 m to accommodate seven-car trains.

The only entrance is marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style and bearing the word METRO.

vehicles

During the colonial exhibition in 1931, seven-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design ran at the station ; later the train lengths were shortened to five cars. From 1975 onwards, MF 67 trains came on line 8, which were replaced by the MF 77 series from 1980 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Because the stations of line 8 to the west of Richelieu - Drouot were initially only 75 m long, the last two wagons of a train continued to run empty from there, as they did not reach the edge of the platform

Web links

Commons : Montgallet (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. 146 .
  2. ↑ a b 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. 241 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 40 ″  N , 2 ° 23 ′ 24 ″  E