Porte de Vincennes (Paris Metro)
 Porte de Vincennes
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris XII , XX |
| opening | July 19, 1900 |
Porte de Vincennes is an underground metro station on line 1 of the Paris Métro . There are transfer options to various bus lines and to the tram lines T3a and T3b .
location
The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier du Bel-Air in the 12th arrondissement with the Quartier de Charonne in the 20th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Cours de Vincennes, west of the crossing, disused railway line Petite Ceinture .
Surname
It is named after the Porte de Vincennes. The road to Vincennes , a nearby Parisian suburb with a population of almost 50,000 today , led through this gate in the Thiers town fortifications built in the 1840s .
History and description
On July 19, 1900, the underground station went into operation with the opening of Line 1 as its eastern terminus. The city's first metro line ran from Porte Maillot to Porte de Vincennes and crossed Paris from west to east. On March 24, 1934, line 1 was extended beyond the city limits by three stations to Château de Vincennes , and Porte de Vincennes became a through station from its terminus.
The underground station is inside a former turning loop . It consists of two spatially separated stations, one for each direction of travel. They lie under elliptical , white tiled vaults and each have a platform on a track.
The width of the streets, under which the original terminus of line 1 are located, made it possible to build tight turning loops between the rows of houses. The final loop under the Cours de Vincennes had a radius of only 30 m. Their shape was similar to that of a tennis racket. The tunnel of the incoming track swiveled about 10 ° out of the axis of the straight line and expanded to the arrival station. This had a 75 m long central platform between two tracks. Behind the following switch, the trains drove through the single-track spiral tunnel in order to reach the departure station, which was built symmetrically to the arrival station, also with two tracks on a central platform. Initially, each station only had one access.
In the course of the extension of Line 1 to the east in 1934, the facility was basically retained, but the turning track was closed. The two stations, which were separated according to the direction of travel, lost the outer track in each case in favor of widening the platforms. To the east of this, the line tracks were continued in the axis of the Cours de Vincennes and reunited in a tunnel under the Avenue de la Porte-de-Vincennes. The covered access structure at the departure station, designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style, was replaced by a simpler entrance with a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .
In the early 1960s, the stations were extended from 75 m to 90 m and converted for traffic with rubber-tyred trains . In the course of the introduction of driverless operation on Line 1, the platforms were raised in 2008 and platform screen doors were installed later . In this context, the underground station has been fundamentally revised and is now back with the original white tiles. In 2012, four new entrances, two of them with escalators, were opened at the terminus of the T3a and T3b tram lines.
vehicles
Initially, trains ran on Line 1, which consisted of a railcar with only one driver's cab and two sidecars . These 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, green painted five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design entered Line 1, which stayed there until the 1960s. From May 1963, the Sprague-Thomson trains, which ran on rails, were successively replaced by the MP 59 series with rubber-tyred vehicles , until December 1964 there was mixed traffic of the two modes of operation. The MP 89 CC series followed in 1997, which gave way to the MP 05 series with the start of automatic operation .
Remarks
- ↑ From the spiral tunnel a service track branched off to the Atéliers de Charonne depot
- ^ After the metro accident at Couronnes station in August 1903, both railcars ran one behind the other at the Zugspitze
- ↑ From the early 1930s, the trains on Line 1 were light gray (with a red 1st class car)
- ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 174 .
- ↑ 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. 131 .
- ↑ a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 133.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 133.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 134.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132 ff.
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 49.5 " N , 2 ° 24 ′ 38.8" E
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