Père Lachaise (Métro Paris)

Père Lachaise
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris XI , XX
opening	February 25, 1903

Line 3 station with steel girder ceiling

Station of line 2 in the beginning

Access designed by Hector Guimard in the median of the Boulevard de Ménilmontant

Père Lachaise is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 2 and 3 .

location

The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier Saint-Ambroise in the 11th arrondissement with the Quartier du Père-Lachaise in the 20th arrondissement of Paris . The station of line 2 is below the Boulevard de Ménilmontant south of the confluence of the avenue Gambetta, that of the line 3 under the avenue de la République.

Surname

It is named after the nearby Cimetière du Père-Lachaise cemetery , where a Jesuit sanctuary was located in the 17th century . The staying there, Father François d'Aix de La Chaise, later confessor of the "Sun King" Louis XIV. , Left his name to the place.

history

The underground station opened on February 25, 1903, after the extension of Line 2 from Anvers to Bagnolet (since 1970: Alexandre Dumas ), on which it is located, went into operation on January 31, 1903 .

The station on line 3 was opened on October 19, 1904. Until its extension to Gambetta on January 25, 1905, it was the provisional terminus (without end loop ) of this line. Père Lachaise was the first Métro station to have an escalator in 1909 .

description

Both stations are each 75 m long and have side platforms on two main tracks. The station on line 2 is located under an elliptical, white-tiled vault with curved side walls. The station on Line 3, which was built in an open construction pit, has a horizontal steel girder ceiling. Longitudinal girders, which carry small vaults made of bricks, rest on iron support beams that are perpendicular to the direction of travel.

Outside the visible area there is an operating track that connects the two lines. The routes intersect diagonally north of the station of line 2 and east of the station of line 3, with the latter going under line 2. There is a simple track change near each station .

There are three entrances from street level, two of which still have the original decor designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style.

vehicles

From 1914 to 1981 line 2 was used by Sprague-Thomson trains. Since it was not to be converted to vehicles with rubber tires in the medium term, the MF 67 series was launched in 1979 , completely replacing its predecessor within two years. Series vehicles of the MF 01 series have been used since 2008 , now exclusively on Line 2.

Line 3 was the first in the network to receive the MF 67 series to replace the Sprague-Thomson trains. The pre-series train ( prototype ) W1 first entered passenger traffic there on December 21, 1967. In 2020, line 3 will continue to be operated with vehicles of this series, from 2028 trains of the MF 19 series will be used there.

Surroundings

The Père-Lachaise cemetery is in the immediate vicinity. In addition to numerous celebrities, rock singer Jim Morrison is also buried there.

Remarks

↑ Glazed white tiles were chosen because they better reflected the light from the sparse lighting of the early days

Web links

Commons : Père Lachaise (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

^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 159 .
^ 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. 150 .
↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 157.
↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 165.
^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 154.
↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 168.
↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 104.
↑ 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).