Reuilly - Diderot (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Reuilly - Diderot
Metro 1 Reuilly - Diderot ext.JPG
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 01Paris Metro 1.svg 08Paris Metro 8.svg
place Paris XII
opening 20th August 1900
Line 1 station still without platform screen doors, 2009
Station of line 8
Train of the series MF 77

Reuilly - Diderot is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines  1 and  8 .

location

The metro station is located in the Quartier de Picpus in the 12th arrondissement of Paris . The station of line 8 is longitudinally under the Rue de Reuilly south of its intersection with the Boulevard Diderot, that of the line 1 along under the Boulevard Diderot west of this intersection.

Surname

The streets Rue de Reuilly and Boulevard Diderot give it its name. The Rue de Reuilly led to the former hamlet of Reuilly, whose name continues to exist as the Quartier de Reuilly district . The writer and philosopher Denis Diderot (1713–1784) was a. a. Co-editor of the reference work Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, which contains 72,000 articles .

Until the opening of line 8 station in 1931, the underground station was only called "Reuilly".

History and description

The station on Line 1 went into operation on August 20, 1900, one month after the line opened. This first Paris metro line crossed the city from west to east, initially it only ran from Porte Maillot to Porte de Vincennes . The station on line 8 went into operation on May 5, 1931, when the section from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Charenton was opened at the beginning of the colonial exhibition in the Bois de Vincennes .

Both stations have side platforms on two main tracks and are located under elliptical , white-tiled vaulted ceilings. The side walls of the station of line 1 follow the curvature of the ellipse, for line 8 they run straight and vertical in the lower area. The station on line 1 was extended from 75 m to 105 m in the early 1960s in order to accommodate seven-car trains; that of line 8 was built with this length from the start. There is a simple track change south of the line 8 station . The platforms of the station on Line 1 were raised at the end of May 2008 in the course of the introduction of driverless operation and later provided with platform screen doors.

At the intersection of Boulevard Diderot and Rue de Reuilly, line 8 crosses under line 1. There are three entrances there, a fourth is on Rue de Chaligny. The three entrances on the south side of the Boulevard Diderot are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style and bearing the word METRO.

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. Until 1905 the railcars, and from 1906 also the sidecars, were replaced by longer, four-axle vehicles on bogies . 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 .

During the colonial exhibition in 1931, seven-car Sprague-Thomson trains ran at the station on Line 8. Later the train lengths were shortened to five cars. From 1975 onwards, MF 67 trains came on line 8, which were replaced by the MF 77 series from 1980 .

Remarks

  1. The name of today's district does not designate a district according to the Paris administrative structure
  2. Since not all stations have this length, trains made up of six cars run on Line 1, while Line 8 has five cars per train
  3. Due to the existence of reversing loops at both ends of the line, the railcars did not have to be moved to the other end of the train
  4. ^ After the metro accident at Couronnes station in August 1903, both railcars ran one behind the other at the Zugspitze
  5. Unlike usual, the trains on Line 1 were gray (with a red 1st class car) from the early 1930s
  6. CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
  7. 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

Commons : Reuilly - Diderot (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. 184 .
  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. 131 .
  3. a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 241.
  4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  5. Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132 ff.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 50.4 "  N , 2 ° 23 ′ 12.4"  E