Opéra (Métro Paris)
 Opéra
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris II , Paris IX |
| opening | October 19, 1904 |
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Auber → 
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Opéra is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 3 , 7 and 8 . The subway station is an important transfer hub in the center of Paris, there is a transfer option to the RER A at its Auber station . It is also connected underground with the metro stations Saint-Augustin , Saint-Lazare and Havre - Caumartin .
location
The subway station is located on the border of the Quartier Gaillon in the 2nd arrondissement with the Quartier de la Chaussée-d'Antin in the 9th arrondissement of Paris . The stations are each located lengthways below streets that lead off from the Place de l'Opéra. Line 3 is under Rue du Quatre-Septembre, Line 7 is under Avenue de l'Opéra and Line 8 is under Boulevard des Capucines. Outside of the station areas, the three lines cross under the Place de l'Opéra at no level.
Surname
The station's name is derived from the nearby Opéra de Paris opera house , which was built between 1862 and 1874 . The building is also known as the Opéra Garnier or Palais Garnier after its builder and architect Charles Garnier . Until the opening of the Opéra Bastille in 1989, the Opéra Garnier was the world's largest theater building.
history
The station went into operation on October 19, 1904 with the opening of line 3. This was opened to traffic on the section from Villiers to Père Lachaise . With the tunnel of line 3, the crossing structure was built under the Boulevard des Capucines, which was also planned for the planned lines 7 and 8. From March 1903 to February 1904, a 21 m deep cylinder with brick walls was created in which the routes intersect on three levels. Line 3 runs just below the road surface, with the tracks of line 8 on the lowest level.
The station on line 7 was opened on November 5, 1910. Opéra was initially the terminus of the trains from Porte de la Villette before the line was extended to Palais Royal on July 1, 1916 .
On July 13, 1913, the station followed Line 8. It was also initially the end point for the trains coming from Beaugrenelle (since 1945: Charles Michels on line 10 ) and became a through station on June 30, 1928 with the extension to Richelieu - Drouot .
In 1902 there was a dispute between the Métrogesellschaft CMP and the architect Hector Guimard, who had been responsible for the design of the entrances, and as a result, the CMP was free to decide on the entrances from 1903 onwards. Opéra became the first metro station, the entrances of which were designed in 1904 by another architect, in this case Joseph Cassien-Bernard. He created stone balustrades in the neoclassical style for the up to 9 m wide stairways .
description
All stations have side platforms on two main tracks. The station on line 3 was built using the open construction method, it has a horizontal metal ceiling. Longitudinal girders, which carry small vaults made of bricks, rest on iron support beams that are perpendicular to the direction of travel. The other two stations have an elliptical cross-section, their white-tiled walls follow the curvature of the ellipse.
The stations of lines 3 and 7 are slightly curved in the longitudinal axis, they are each 75 m long. The station on line 8 was subsequently extended to 105 m, theoretically sufficient for seven-car trains.
The subway station has two neoclassical entrances from the Place de l'Opéra and an Art Nouveau entrance designed by Guimard from the Place Charles-Garnier. An additional exit with escalator leads to avenue de l'Opéra.
vehicles
As a result of the accident at Couronnes station , line 3 was equipped with vehicles that ran on bogies from the start . The five-car trains consisted of three multiple units and two trailer cars . They were later replaced by Sprague-Thomson trains , which ran there until 1967. In that year, Line 3 was the first to receive the new MF 67 series, which runs classically on steel rails . These vehicles will still be in use there in 2020, and from 2028 they are to be replaced by trains of the MF 19 series.
Conventional five-car trains of the MF 77 series run on lines 7 and 8 . Between 1971 and 1979 (line 7) and 1975 and 1980 (line 8) trains of the MF 67 series ran there, before that of the Sprague-Thomson type.
Others
On April 1, 2016, the station was briefly called "Apéro" (German: aperitif , an April Fool's joke by the metro operator RATP ).
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Les 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. 154 .
- ^ 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. 164 f .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 164.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 222 f.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 240.
- ↑ Gérard Roland: op. Cit. P. 155.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 240.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 86.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 165.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 168.
- ↑ Jean-Gabriel Bontinck: Métro: ligne par ligne, découvrez quand les nouvelles arriveront rames. In: Le Parisien . April 11, 2019, accessed on June 7, 2020 (Fri-FR).
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 227 and 245.
- ↑ Métro - RER: la RATP renowned 13 stations ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ratp.fr, accessed on January 21, 2017.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Havre - Caumartin ← Pont de Levallois - Bécon |
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Quatre-Septembre Gallieni → |
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Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette ← La Courneuve - 8 May 1945 |
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Pyramides Mairie d'Ivry or Villejuif - Louis Aragon → |
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Madeleine ← Balard |
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Richelieu - Drouot Pointe du Lac → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 14 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 56" E