Porte Dorée (Paris Metro)
 Porte Dorée
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| place | Paris XII |
| opening | May 5, 1931 |
The metro station Porte Doree is an underground station of the line 8 of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located on the border of the Quartier du Bel-Air and the Quartier de Picpus in the 12th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard Poniatowski southwest of the Porte Dorée.
Surname
It is named after the Porte Dorée, one of the seventeen former gates in Thiers' city fortifications , which were built around Paris in the 1840s. The name is probably a modification of Porte de l'orée (Forest Edge Gate) due to its location on the northwestern edge of the Bois de Vincennes urban forest . The droppings of deer, which lived there in large numbers at the time, were also referred to as “dorées”. The name cannot be traced back to the existence of a gilded (French dorée ) statue nearby.
History and description
The station was put into operation on May 5, 1931, when, at the beginning of the colonial exhibition in the Bois de Vincennes, the section from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Charenton of line 8 was opened. Under an elliptical, white-tiled vaulted ceiling, it has side platforms on two parallel tracks and was built with a length of 105 m to accommodate seven-car trains.
There are entrances at both ends of the station. Some of them are marked with candelabra or masts designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the style of Art Deco and bearing a yellow “M” in a double circle.
To the north of the station, the line bends in a tight 90-degree curve under Avenue Daumesnil, and to the south of the station there is a simple track change .
vehicles
During the colonial exhibition in 1931, seven-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design ran at the station ; later the train lengths were shortened to five cars. From 1975 onwards, MF 67 trains came on line 8, which were replaced by the MF 77 series from 1980 .
Surroundings
- Nearby is the Bois de Vincennes
- In the early 1930s was far from the fountain Fontaine de la Porte Doree erected, by a gilded statue of the Greek goddess Athena is dominated
Remarks
- ↑ Because the stations of line 8 to the west of Richelieu - Drouot were initially only 75 m long, the last two wagons of a train continued to run empty from there, as they did not reach the edge of the platform
Web links
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. 175 .
- ↑ a b 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. 241 .
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Michel Bizot ← Balard |
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Porte de Charenton Pointe du Lac → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 8 " N , 2 ° 24 ′ 22" E