Pré-Saint-Gervais (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Pré-Saint-Gervais
Metro de Paris - Ligne 7bis - Pre-Saint-Gervais 03.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 07bisParis Metro 7 bis.svg
place 19th arrondissement
opening January 18, 1911
End loop "Boucle de Pré-Saint-Gervais" with the Pré-Saint-Gervais station and the operating tracks " Voie navette " and "Voie des Fêtes"
MF 88 series train on the main line
Investigation pit on the "Voie navette"
Access with Art Nouveau balustrade and Val d'Osne candelabra

The Pré-Saint-Gervais metro station is an underground station and the eastern terminus of line 7bis of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier d'Amérique in the 19th arrondissement of Paris . It is located near the city limits along the Boulevard Sérurier at the confluence of the Rue de Mouzaïa.

Surname

It is named after the municipality of Le Pré-Saint-Gervais to the northeast of the city limits . Its name refers to a chapel built on a meadow (fr: pré), which was dedicated to the "holy" Gervasius (fr: Saint Gervais), who died a martyr around the year 300.

History and description

Today's line 7bis was on 18 January 1911, when the branch line opened on 5 November 1910 and then from Opéra to Porte de la Villette leading line 7 , put into operation. It leads from their intermediate station Louis Blanc to the terminus Pré-Saint-Gervais located in the large terminal loop “Boucle de Pré-Saint-Gervais”.

In the first time the line was operated autonomously. After a few months, operations were changed so that the trains on line 7 ran from Opéra to Louis Blanc, and from there alternately on the two outer branches. This type of operation lasted until December 3, 1967. From that day the route was operated separately again - due to the much higher number of passengers on the other branch - and received the current line name.

During the construction of the underground station in the area crisscrossed by tunnels , the area above was repeatedly broken into. The station is 75 m long, lies under an elliptical , white-tiled vault and has two tracks on a central platform . The western track serves the line 7bis, whose trains enter from the southeast and leave the station in a northwest direction. Passengers can stay on the trains while they are in the terminus.

The eastern track belongs to the Voie navette , a connection that has only been used as a service track since the mobilization at the beginning of the Second World War . From November 27, 1921 to September 3, 1939 it was used by a shuttle train (fr: navette) with passengers to the Porte des Lilas  B station on today's line 3bis, which has since been closed . In the early 1950s, the “Voie navette” was used to test the rubber-tyred MP 51 prototype vehicle .

A workshop was set up in the station for the maintenance of the MF 88 series trains, which only run on Line 7bis . The eastern track was provided with an investigation pit and the platform was divided by a partition.

To the south of the underground station, the single-track line crosses the “Voie des Fêtes” operating track in a tight left curve. On both sides of the station there is a track connection to the “Voie navette” or its northern extension. The latter, which runs parallel to the track as far as the following Danube underground station , is used to park trains.

The only access is on Boulevard Sérurier near the confluence of Rue Alphonse Aulard. It has an iron parapet designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style, but also a 4 m high candelabra of the Val d'Osne type.

vehicles

In July 1980, the Sprague-Thomson trains that had been running on the line until then , which last only ran there with four cars, were replaced within a few weeks by those of the MF 67 series . The MF 67 "F" initially ran in the classic configuration as five-car trains and were later replaced by four-car trains from the "E" series.

Since January 1994, the short 7bis line has been the only one in the Paris Métro network that - after a transition period until December 30, 1994 - is used exclusively by the MF 88 series, which has just nine three-car trains.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The designation 7bis corresponds to the German 7a
  2. ↑ The addition "B" did not appear in the route and timetable, the station is now also called "Porte des Lilas - Cinéma"

Web links

Commons : Pré Saint-Gervais (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 236 .
  2. ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 178 .
  3. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 223.
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 226.
  5. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  6. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 167.
  7. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 166.
  8. ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 61 .
  9. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 72 ff.
  10. ↑ Lignes 7 et 7 bis at karodaxo.fr, accessed on April 9, 2017.
  11. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 109.
  12. ^ Brian Hardy: op. Cit. P. 89 f.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 49 ″  N , 2 ° 23 ′ 56 ″  E