Pont de Neuilly (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Pont de Neuilly
Metro Paris - Ligne 1 - Pont de Neuilly (3) .jpg
Tariff zone 2
Line (s) 01Paris Metro 1.svg
place Neuilly-sur-Seine
opening April 29, 1937

The metro station Pont de Neuilly is an underground station of Line 1 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the center of the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine . It is located under Avenue Charles de Gaulle at the intersection of Rue du Château - Avenue de Madrid.

Surname

The name of the nearby road bridge Pont de Neuilly gives . At this point the Seine was crossed by ferry as early as the 12th century. In the 17th century a wooden bridge was built, which was replaced by a stone structure between 1766 and 1772. The current bridge dates from 1942, it was rebuilt and expanded in 1992.

The place name Neuilly is derived from the Latin word “novalia” (newly reclaimed land). Between 1940 and 1950 the station had the suffix "Avenue de Madrid".

History and description

The station was put into operation on April 29, 1937 as part of the extension of Line 1 from Porte Maillot as its western end point. It was already built with a length of 105 m, theoretically sufficient for seven-car trains. Under an elliptical , white tiled vault are two side platforms on either side of the main line. The side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse. To introduce driverless operation from December 2010, the RATP increased the platforms and installed platform screen doors in 2009 .

Of the four entrances, three are to the west and one east of the above-mentioned intersection in the median of Avenue Charles de Gaulle. Three of them are marked by masts with a yellow “M” in a double circle, the fourth is not marked and consists only of an escalator.

To the west of the station, the line leaves the tunnel and runs between the lanes of the road across the Seine.

vehicles

Train series MP 89  CC on the Pont de Neuilly , 2006

Initially, there were five-car Sprague-Thomson trains that were painted light gray (with a red 1st class car) and stayed on Line 1 until the 1960s. From May 1963, the Sprague-Thomson trains running on rails were gradually replaced by rubber-tired vehicles (six-car trains of the MP 59 series ) that run on chassis beams attached to both sides of the track. Until December 1964 there was mixed traffic of the two modes of operation. The MP 89  CC series followed in 1997, which gave way to the MP 05 series with the start of automatic operation.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Due to the shorter length of most of the other stations, only six-car trains can run on Line 1
  2. ↑ On the other lines, the trains remained green with a red 1st class car or compartment
  3. ↑ The mobile beams, which were originally made of wood, have been largely replaced by double T-beams
  4. ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA

Web links

Commons : Pont de Neuilly (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 167 .
  2. ^ 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. 134 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 89.
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132 ff.
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