Porte de Charenton (Paris Metro)
 Porte de Charenton
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris XII |
| opening | May 5, 1931 |
The metro station Porte de Charenton is an underground station of the line 8 of the Paris Métro . It offers the option to change to tram line 3a .
location
The station is located on the border of the Quartier de Picpus and the Quartier du Bel-Air in the 12th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under Boulevard Poniatowski southeast of the confluence of Rue Claude Decaen.
Surname
The name gives the Porte de Charenton, one of the seventeen former gates in the Thiers city fortifications , which were built around Paris in the 1840s. To the east of it lies the municipality of Charenton-le-Pont . Their name can probably be traced back to a Gaul named Carentus, who owned an estate at the confluence of the Marne and the Seine .
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. It was built with a length of 105 m to accommodate seven-car trains. Until October 5, 1942, it was the southeastern terminus of the line that was extended to Charenton - Écoles that day .
The four-track station, which was once designed as a terminus, has two central platforms under an elliptical , white-tiled ceiling vault. The two outer tracks are used for through traffic to and from the current terminus Pointe du Lac , the inner ones lead to the parking and turning tracks to the south.
The two entrances are on either side of the Boulevard Poniatowski at the southwest end of the station, at the tram stop of the same name on line 3a. One is characterized by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style , the other by a pole with a yellow “M” in a double circle. There are two additional emergency exits at the other end of the subway station.
vehicles
During the colonial exhibition in 1931 seven-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design ran at the station , later the train lengths were reduced 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 9.95 km² Paris city forest and landscape park Bois de Vincennes .
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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Porte Dorée ← Balard |
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Liberté Pointe du Lac → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 58 ″ N , 2 ° 24 ′ 1 ″ E