Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre (Paris Métro)
 Palais Royal - Musee du Louvre
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris I |
| opening | July 19, 1900 |
Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 1 and 7 .
location
The metro station is located in the district Quartier du Palais Royal of the 1st arrondissement of Paris . The station of line 1 is located lengthways under the Rue de Rivoli in front of the under Napoleon III. built the Richelieu wing of the Palais du Louvre , and that of line 7 almost parallel to it under Rue Saint-Honoré .
Surname
The station was originally only called "Palais Royal". The city palace of the same name was built as the "Palais Cardinal" from 1627 to 1633 for Cardinal Richelieu . In 1643 it became the property of the royal family and was given its current name.
In 1989, the subway station was given the addition of "Musée du Louvre" to inform those who are unfamiliar with the location of the new main entrance to the world's most popular art museum . The “Louvre” station, whose name refers to the building, is further away from the museum entrance and was renamed Louvre - Rivoli in this context .
history
The station of line 1 opened on July 19, 1900 with the commissioning of the line as one of the first eight Parisian underground stations. At first it had the standard length of 75 m. In the early 1960s, it was lengthened to 90 m and prepared for use with rubber-tired vehicles . In 2011 the station received platform screen doors for operation with automatic, driverless trains.
The station of line 7 went into operation on July 1, 1916, when this line was extended from Opéra to Palais Royal. Until April 16, 1926, the station was the end of the line.
As part of renovations, the metro station was given access to the Carrousel du Louvre underground shopping center and further to the museum's ticket office.
description
Both stations have side platforms on two main tracks. The station on Line 1 was built using an 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 platforms are 4.10 m wide.
The slightly curved station on Line 7 is located under an elliptical , tiled ceiling vault. It has vertical side walls and is unusually high by Parisian standards.
At the Place du Palais Royal there are three entrances from the street, one of which has the Art Nouveau decor designed by Hector Guimard . In 1934 a very large city map with an integrated clock was installed on the narrow side of the railing, which was later removed. Another entrance is marked by a Val d'Osne candelabra .
On the 100th anniversary of the Paris Métro, an architecturally unusual entrance was created on Place Colette in 2000. It is called "Kiosque des Noctambules" (kiosk for night strollers) and comes from the artist Jean-Michel Othoniel . The entrance has two domes, one symbolizing day and the other night. The domes consist of colorful glass balls that are held together by an aluminum structure.
vehicles
Initially, trains ran on Line 1, which consisted of a railcar with only one driver's cab and two sidecars . These vehicles were two-axle and each nearly nine meters long. As early as 1902, eight-car trains were formed, which were made up of six trailer cars and one railcar at each end of the train. The railcars were replaced by four-axle vehicles that rested on bogies until 1905 and the sidecars from 1906 . In 1908, green painted five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design entered Line 1, which stayed there until the 1960s. From May 1963, the Sprague-Thomson trains, which ran on rails, were successively replaced by the rubber-tyred vehicles of the MP 59 series, until December 1964, mixed traffic of the two modes of operation prevailed. The MP 89 CC series followed in 1997, which gave way to the MP 05 series with the start of automatic operation .
Conventional five-car trains of the MF 77 series run on Line 7. Between 1971 and 1979 trains of the MF 67 series ran there , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type.
Surroundings
Remarks
- ^ After the metro accident at Couronnes station in August 1903, both railcars ran one behind the other at the Zugspitze
- ↑ From the early 1930s, the trains on Line 1 were gray with a red 1st class car
- ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . Bonneton, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Un ministère dans la ville at economie.gouv.fr, accessed on February 6, 2017.
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 156 .
- ^ 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. 131 .
- ^ A b 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. 223.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 225.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 130.
- ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 70 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 74.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132 ff.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 227 and 245.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Tuileries ← La Defense |
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Louvre - Rivoli Château de Vincennes → |
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Pyramides ← La Courneuve - May 8, 1945 |
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Pont Neuf Mairie d'Ivry or Villejuif - Louis Aragon → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 44.5 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 11.1" E