Pyrénées (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Pyrenees
Metro de Paris - Ligne 11 - Pyrenees 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 11Paris Metro 11.svg
place Paris XIX , XX
opening April 28, 1935
Access on Avenue Simon Bolivar with Art Deco candelabra
Parc de Belleville

The metro station Pyrenees is an underground station of Line 11 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier du Combat in the 19th arrondissement with the Quartier de Belleville in the 20th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under the Rue de Belleville east of the intersecting street Avenue Simon Bolivar - Rue des Pyrénées.

Surname

The name gives the Rue des Pyrénées. The latter was named after the French-Spanish border mountains , the Pyrenees , which stretch over 400 km from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean .

History and description

The station was put into operation on April 28, 1935 with the opening of line 11, which then ran on the section from Châtelet to Porte des Lilas . In 1956, line 11 was the first to be converted for operation with rubber-tired trains .

The 75 m long station lies in a curve, it has two side platforms on two parallel tracks. Its cross-section is elliptical , the white tiled side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse.

The three entrances are all in the area of ​​the above-mentioned intersection. They are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .

vehicles

Initially, conventional Sprague-Thomson trains ran on line 11 . In the mid-1950s, it was the first to be prepared for passenger use with rubber-tired vehicles. The MP 55 series was used for the first time on November 13, 1956. In January 1999 they were replaced by the MP 59 series , and MP 73 trains have also been running since 2009 .

Surroundings

Web links

Commons : Pyrénées (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. 178 .
  2. ↑ 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. 284 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 74.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '26.1 "  N , 2 ° 23' 7.2"  E