Place des Fêtes (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Place des Fêtes
The station of line 11
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 07bisParis Metro 7 bis.svg 11Paris Metro 11.svg
place Paris XIX
opening January 18, 1911
7bis station
Station of line 11
Access structure in the style of Art Deco
Escalators to the exit

Place des Fêtes is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 7bis and  11 and is one of seven of the more than 300 metro stations that have the word “place” in their name. The underground station has the longest escalator in the metro network at 20.23 m.

location

The metro station is located in the Quartier d'Amérique in the 19th arrondissement of Paris . It is located below the square of the same name.

Surname

It is named after the Place des Fêtes, which was laid out in 1836 by the municipality of Belleville, which was independent until 1860 .

history

Today's line 7bis was on 18 January 1911, when the branch line opened on 5 November 1910 and then from Opéra to Porte de la Villette leading line 7 , put into operation. It leads from their intermediate station Louis Blanc to the terminus Pré-Saint-Gervais located in the large terminal loop “Boucle de Pré-Saint-Gervais ” . The Place des Fêtes station in this loop was initially passed through without stopping; it did not go into operation until February 13, 1912. Since it is very low, it was given a passenger elevator that led to street level. In 1935 it was replaced by an escalator and the old red brick access structure was demolished.

In the first time the line was operated autonomously. After a few months, operations were changed so that the trains on line 7 ran from Opéra to Louis Blanc, and from there alternately on the two outer branches. This type of operation lasted until December 3, 1967. From that day the route was operated separately again - due to the much higher number of passengers on the other branch - and received the current line name.

On April 28, 1935, the station on line 11 was opened and two additional entrances were created. In 1936, like the Maison Blanche station , it was expanded as a prototype of a shelter from gas attacks . Gas-tight doors and gates were installed both in the access areas and in the route tunnel. Two new reinforced concrete access buildings were built to protect against bombing attacks.

During the German occupation in World War II , Métrolinie 11 was shut down and some of its tracks were robbed. A company was set up in their Place des Fêtes station to produce parts for the Air Force aircraft . Only on March 5, 1945, more than six months after the liberation of Paris , could traffic on line 11 be resumed. In 1956, the line was the first in the network to be converted for traffic with rubber-tired trains .

description

Both stations are under elliptical , white-tiled vaults and are 75 m long. The station of line 7bis located in a curve is located within the end loop “Boucle de Pré-Saint-Gervais” on a single-track section that is only used in a west-east direction. It still has a central platform between two tracks, the northern track 2bis branches off the main track in front of the station and joins the track behind the station. Not far from there, the “Voie des Fêtes” operating track, which leads to line 3bis via the Haxo station, which never went into operation , separates from the mainline track.

The station on line 11, located at a depth of 24 m, has two side platforms. It is also in an east-west direction, immediately south of the station on line 7bis.

vehicles

In July 1980, the Sprague-Thomson trains that had been running on line 7bis , which last only ran there with four cars, were replaced within a few weeks by those of the MF 67 series . The MF 67 "F" initially ran in the classic configuration as five-car trains and were later replaced by four-car trains from the "E" series. Since January 1994, the short 7bis line has been the only one in the Paris Métro network that - after a transition period until December 30, 1994 - is used exclusively by the MF 88 series, which has just nine three-car trains .

Line 11 was initially also equipped with Sprague-Thomson trains. After the reconstruction of the line in 1956, they were initially replaced by the "rubber" MP 55 series . Four-car trains of the MP 59 and (since 2009) MP 73 series have been running since 1999 .

Surroundings

Remarks

  1. ↑ The designation 7bis corresponds to the German 7a

Web links

Commons : Place des Fêtes (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 166 .
  2. ↑ Gérard Roland: op. Cit. P. 163.
  3. ^ A b Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 96 .
  4. ^ 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. 223 .
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 226.
  6. ↑ Julian Pepinster: op. Cit. P. 222 ff.
  7. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 287.
  8. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 134.
  9. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  10. ↑ Lignes 7 et 7 bis at karodaxo.fr, accessed on April 9, 2017.
  11. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 109.
  12. ^ Brian Hardy: op. Cit. P. 89 f.
  13. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 284.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52  '36.3 " N , 2 ° 23' 34.3"  E