Odéon (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Odéon
Odéon metro station, Paris 7 April 2014 001.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 04Paris Metro 4.svg 10Paris Metro 10.svg
place Paris VI
opening January 9, 1910

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 8.6 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 20.4"  E

Station of line 4 with rubber-tyred trains of the MP 59 and MP 89 series
Station of line 10 with trains of the MF 67 series , the left one has been converted into an internal transport train and has a special paintwork called "Convoi d'Auteuil"

Odéon is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 4 and 10 .

location

The metro station is located in the Quartier de l'Odéon in the 6th arrondissement of Paris . Its two stations are offset from one another, lengthways below the Boulevard Saint-Germain , in the section of this more than three kilometers long street that belongs to the Latin Quarter .

Surname

It is named after the Carrefour de l'Odéon and the Rue de l'Odéon, a street going south from there. It ends after about 200 meters at Place de l'Odéon, where today's French state theater Théâtre National de l'Odéon has stood since 1782 . The Greek word ᾠδεῖον ( Odeon or Odeion) referred to a hall for singing performances in ancient times . The building was named Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1796.

history

The station on Line 4 went into operation on January 9, 1910, when the last section from Raspail to Châtelet was opened. On February 14, 1926, with the extension of line 10 from Mabillon, its Odéon station was opened as a provisional terminus. With the extension of the line to Place d'Italie , the line 10 station became a through station on February 15, 1930.

description

Curve of line 4, above the crossing track trough of line 10, the operating track opens from the right

Both stations have two side platforms on two main tracks. They have an elliptical cross-section, the ceiling and walls are tiled. There are three entrances, one of which is marked by a "Val d'Osne" candelabra .

The station of line 4 is located below the common plaza of Place Henri-Mondor and Carrefour de l'Odéon. In the mid-1960s, it was lengthened from 75 to 90 meters and converted for use with pneumatic trains , and was extensively renovated before 2010. After a bend immediately to the east towards the north to Rue Danton, the line crosses under the tracks of line 10, followed by a simple track change . The tracks of line 10 are north of this station, the station of line 10 is only east of the intersection. It describes a slight curve and is underpassed by a service track that connects the two lines. This track comes from the following station Cluny - La Sorbonne , it ends bluntly on the south side of the station of the line 4.Trains that return on this blunt track reach the northward direction track of the line 4 immediately via a switch connection.

vehicles

Five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design ran on Line 4 until 1967 . After the corresponding reconstruction of the route and the extension of the stations, rubber-tire six-car trains of the MP 59 series were used from October 1966 , during the first few months in mixed traffic with conventional vehicles. The MP 89  CC series has been running on the line since 2011 .

Conventional MF 67 series trains run on Line 10 . Between 1975 and 1994 trains of the MA series ran , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type.

Surroundings

Palais du Luxembourg
Model of the Statue of Liberty by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi in the Jardin du Luxembourg

Remarks

  1. ↑ Unlike the Quartier l'Odéon, the Quartier Latin is not a district according to the Paris administrative structure
  2. ↑ The provisional route to the Place d'Italie was abandoned on April 26, 1931
  3. ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA

Web links

Commons : Odéon (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Track plan at carto.metro.free.fr

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. 154 .
  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. 270 .
  3. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 74.
  4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 273.
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