Porte Maillot (Paris Metro)
 Porte Maillot
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris XVI |
| opening | November 15, 1936 |
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Neuilly - Porte Maillot → 
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Porte Maillot is an underground station on Line 1 of the Paris Métro . At Neuilly - Porte Maillot station, which is linked underground, you can change to line C of the S-Bahn- like RER network.
location
The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier de la Porte-Dauphine in the 16th arrondissement with the Quartier des Ternes in the 17th arrondissement of Paris . It is located on the axis of the Avenue de la Grande-Armée under the Place de la Porte-Maillot.
Surname
It is named after the Place de la Porte-Maillot, where the Porte Maillot of the Thiers city wall , leading to the Bois de Boulogne, was located. The name “Maillot” can probably be traced back to the jeu de mail , a ball game similar to the croquet , which was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and was practiced in a long avenue.
History and description
A first subway station, Porte Maillot, went into operation on July 19, 1900 with the opening of Line 1 coming from Porte de Vincennes . It was located under the avenue de la Grande-Armée east of the Petite Ceinture railway line . As the terminus of the line, it was located within a final loop in the form of a tennis racket, with the arrival platform on the inside of the northern leg. It was a 75 m long central platform between the main track and a siding. After driving through the spiral tunnel with a radius of only 30 m, the trains reached the similarly constructed departure station on the southern leg.
The end loop and the two stations under elliptical , white tiled ceiling vaults were temporarily shut down in 1937. However, they are still there and have been used as Ateliers Maillot / Center de dépannage since 2007 to maintain the fully automatic trains of the MP 05 series . For this purpose, an investigation pit was installed on the former departure platform, the rubber-tyred trains run in the facility with their auxiliary wheels on rails.
On April 29, 1937, line 1 in the west was extended by two stations to Pont de Neuilly . In contrast to the Porte de Vincennes station, the old platforms could no longer be used because they were at the same height as the tracks of the nearby Petite Ceinture. For this reason, the new mainline tracks were branched out in front of the old underground station; at the end of a ramp they first pass under the sweeping track and immediately afterwards the railroad tracks.
The new Porte Maillot underground station was opened on November 15, 1936; it is located west of the Petite Ceinture under the Place de la Porte-Maillot on the border with the suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine . It consists of two parallel stations, 105 m long from the beginning, which are also located under elliptical, white-tiled ceiling vaults. They each have side platforms on two tracks, the northernmost track being used for outbound traffic to La Défense , the southernmost being used for trains in the direction of Château de Vincennes . The two inner tracks were built for trains that started and ended there. In 1992 they were separated from the main line towards the city center and now serve as sidings for cleaning the wagons.
At the beginning of the 1960s, line 1 was converted to run on rubber-tired trains. In September 2008, with a view to the introduction of driverless operation, the platforms were raised and at the end of that year, platform screen doors were installed for the first time on Line 1 on the unused platform of the southern station .
There are seven entrances, some of which are marked by a pole with a yellow “M” in a double circle. The roofed access structure of type "B" designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style no longer exists.
vehicles
Initially, trains ran on Line 1, which consisted of a railcar with only one driver's cab and two sidecars . These brown-painted vehicles were two-axle and each nearly nine meters long. As early as 1902, eight-car trains were formed, each with a railcar at the ends of the train. The railcars were replaced by four-axle vehicles on bogies until 1905, and the sidecars from 1906 . In 1908, dark green five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design found their way onto 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.
Surroundings
- The 8.46 km² Bois de Boulogne is one of the largest city parks in the world
Remarks
- ↑ After the metro accident at Couronnes station in 1903, both railcars ran one behind the other at the Zugspitze
- ↑ In contrast to the other lines, the trains on Line 1 were painted light gray (with a red 1st class car) from the early 1930s
- ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
Web links
- Plan of the tracks and platforms at carto.metro.free.fr
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 Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ^ 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 c Jean Tricoire: op.cit. P. 134.
- ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 95 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132 ff.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Les Sablons ← La Défense |
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Argentine Château de Vincennes → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 40.2 " N , 2 ° 16 ′ 56.2" E