Porte de Bagnolet (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svg Porte de Bagnolet
Metro de Paris - Ligne 3 - Porte de Bagnolet 06.JPG
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 03Paris Metro 3.svg
place Paris XX
opening April 2nd 1971
Access marked with a yellow “M”, on the left the tram track
Train on tram line T3b at its Porte de Bagnolet stop

The metro station Porte de Bagnolet is an underground station of line 3 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Saint-Fargeau district of the 20th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue Belgrand at the level of the crossing Rue Martin Garat.

Surname

The eponymous Porte de Bagnolet was a gate in the Thiers wall , through which the municipality of Bagnolet , east of the city, could be reached.

History and description

On April 2, 1971, the station was put into operation in the course of the opening of the eastward swiveling of line 3. At that time, the previous end section from Gambetta to Porte des Lilas became the independent line 3bis and the new route to Gallieni was opened to traffic.

It lies under an elliptical vaulted ceiling and has two side platforms on two main tracks. The side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse. Although only five-car trains can run on Line 3, the station was built with foresight to be 105 m long. There are five entrances from street level, they are marked with a yellow “M” in a double circle. Since December 2012, there has been a transfer option at Boulevard Davout to the T3b line of the Paris tram, which runs on the Boulevards des Maréchaux .

vehicles

From the start, conventional MF 67 series vehicles rolling on steel rails operated at the station . The trains, which were modernized between 2005 and 2008, will continue to be in use there in 2020; from 2028 they are to be replaced by vehicles from the MF 19 series.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The designation 3bis corresponds to the German 3a
  2. ↑ Most of the stations on line 3 only have the original Parisian standard length of 75 m
  3. ↑ Trains run on five lines of the Paris Métro with pneumatic tires on mobile beams

Web links

Commons : Porte de Bagnolet (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. 171 .
  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. 168 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ↑ Jean-Gabriel Bontinck: Métro: ligne par ligne, découvrez quand les nouvelles arriveront rames. In: Le Parisien . April 11, 2019, accessed June 7, 2020 (French).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 52 "  N , 2 ° 24 ′ 32"  E