Porte Molitor (Paris Metro)
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 MF 67 trains at Porte Molitor station |
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| Arrondissement | Paris XVI |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 50 '35 " N , 2 ° 15' 23" E |
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The subway station Porte Molitor is an underground station of the Paris metro at the Voie Murat, an operating track between the lines 9 and 10 . It was built for traffic to the Parc des Princes sports stadium , but was never opened to passenger traffic, and is one of the RATP's ghost stations ("Stations fantômes") . Because of its location under the Boulevard Murat , it is also called Murat .
Location and history
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The station is located in the southwest of Paris , in the Quartier d ' Auteuil in the 16th arrondissement , not far from the city limits to the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt . The single-track connection between the Porte d'Auteuil and Porte de Saint-Cloud stations was given a double-track subway station with a central platform at Parc des Princes , which was only to be served on the occasion of the football matches taking place there . This was the intention of the city of Paris, which was obliged to build the stations. The subway company CMP , which was responsible for building the access to the station, was not interested in these special services and as a result failed to build them. Aside from Haxo , Porte Molitor is the only station on the Métro that can only be reached via the route tunnel. Since then, the tracks have been used to park trains.
It was planned that trains coming from the city center would switch from line 9 to a track parallel to the main line of line 8 (today's line 10) in front of the Michel-Ange - Auteuil station . After passing the Michel-Ange - Auteuil metro stations (station on line 10) and Porte d'Auteuil, they would have taken the Porte Molitor station and then reached line 9 again at Porte de Saint-Cloud. The Porte d'Auteuil station is therefore designed with three tracks, the middle track was intended for traffic to Voie Murat. In the Porte de Saint-Cloud station with five platform tracks, the line runs level-free.
See also
Web links
literature
- 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 .
- Clive Lamming: Métro insolite . 2nd Edition. Éditions Parigramme, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-84096-190-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Clive Lamming : Métro insolite . 2nd Edition. Editions Parigramme, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-84096-190-1 , pp. 129 .
- ^ 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. 336 .
- ↑ Railway history special No. 2: Railways in Paris , p. 73.
- ↑ Track and station plan of the Métro Paris at carto.metro.free.fr, accessed on December 2, 2014
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. , P. 274 f.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. , P. 257.
