Robespierre (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Robespierre
Robespierre (métro Paris) vers Pt Sèvres par Cramos.JPG
Tariff zone 2
Line (s) 09Paris Metro 9.svg
place Montreuil
opening October 14, 1937
East access opposite the junction with Rue Barbès
Station sign on the canopy of the western entrance

The Metro Station Robespierre is a station on the line 9 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Paris suburb of Montreuil . It lies lengthways below the Rue de Paris at its intersection with the Rue Robespierre.

Surname

It is named after the Rue Robespierre. The lawyer Maximilien de Robespierre , born in 1758, was one of the most important figures of the French Revolution and one of the main initiators of the reign of terror of 1793/94. He was guillotined on July 17, 1794 .

History and description

The station went into operation on October 14, 1937 when the last section of Line 9 from Porte de Montreuil station to Mairie de Montreuil station opened.

It is 105 m long and has two side platforms on either side of the main line. The cross-section is elliptical , the ceiling and walls are tiled in white.

The two single-storey access structures are integrated into the building line and identified by red signs with the label METRO.

vehicles

MF 67 series train in the station (2010)

Line 9 is operated with conventional vehicles that run on steel rails. Initially, trains of the Sprague-Thomson type , which were last used there, ran. In 1983 the MF 67 series was launched . The MF 01 series has been increasingly used since October 2013, and the last MF 67 train ran on line 9 on December 14, 2016.

Remarks

  1. ↑ On several lines of the Paris Métro trains run with pneumatic tires on mobile beams
  2. ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

literature

Web links

Commons : Robespierre (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 187 .
  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. 260 .
  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. 260.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 21 ″  N , 2 ° 25 ′ 24 ″  E