Rue des Boulets (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Rue des Boulets
Rue des Boulets métro 02.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 09Paris Metro 9.svg
place Paris XI
opening December 10, 1933
Boulevard Voltaire with access to the Rue des Boulets metro station

The metro station Rue des Boulets is an underground station of line 9 of the Paris Métro . It is one of five of the more than 300 metro stations of the Métro that have the word “Rue” (street) in their name.

location

The station is located in the Sainte-Marguerite district of the 11th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under Boulevard Voltaire between its intersection with Rue de Montreuil and the confluence of Rue des Boulets.

Surname

It is named after the Rue des Boulets off the Boulevard Voltaire. The name of the place "Les Boulets" probably refers to cannon or rifle bullets during the siege of the city by Henry IV , but its origin is not clear.

Before 1998 the station was called "Boulets - Montreuil". The Rue de Montreuil leads towards the suburb of Montreuil , a municipality in the Seine-Saint-Denis department on the eastern outskirts of Paris.

History and description

The station went into operation on December 10, 1933 when line 9 was extended by 6430 m from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Montreuil . It has two side platforms on two main tracks and was built with a length of 105 m. The cross-section is elliptical , the ceiling and walls are tiled in white. The side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse. There is a simple track change south of the station .

The two entrances are on Boulevard Voltaire south of the junction with Rue des Boulets. They are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .

vehicles

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. ↑ The standard length of the stations opened before 1931 was 75 m
  2. ↑ The stations built by the Nord-Sud railway company, which competed until 1929, have vertical walls under elliptical ceilings
  3. ↑ On several lines of the Paris Métro trains run with pneumatic tires on mobile beams
  4. ↑ The last Sprague-Thomson train on the Métro's regular service was on line 9 on April 16, 1983

Web links

Commons : Rue des Boulets (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. 188 .
  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. 263 .
  3. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 259.
  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. 260.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 9 ″  N , 2 ° 23 ′ 24 ″  E