Rue du Bac (Paris Métro)
 Rue du Bac
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| place | Paris VII |
| opening | November 5, 1910 |
The metro station Rue du Bac is an underground station of Line 12 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 Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin district of the 7th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under Boulevard Raspail at its confluence with Boulevard Saint-Germain .
Surname
The name is given to the Rue du Bac , which at the place of the above. Crosses boulevards. In 1564, a river ferry (fr: bac) was set up to transport material extracted from the quarries of Vaugirard for the construction of the Tuileries Palace across the Seine . The Grand chemin du bac, leading there from the south, later became the Ruelle du Bac, then the Grande rue du Bac and finally the Rue du Bac.
history
The station opened on November 5, 1910, when the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (North-Sud) put the first section of its line A from Porte de Versailles to Notre-Dame-de-Lorette into operation . On March 27, 1931, line A was renamed line 12 after the Nord-Sud had been absorbed by the previously competing Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) the previous year .
description
Under an elliptical , white tiled vault, there are two side platforms on two main tracks. In contrast to the stations set up by the CMP, the side walls do not follow the curvature of the ellipse, but run vertically in the lower area. Typically for the underground stations in the north-south, the station was built somewhat more splendid than the stations of the CMP, but after the renovation in 1984 it is much simpler. Because of the overhead contact line originally on the north-south routes , it is slightly higher than the CMP stations located under similar vaults. It has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, sufficient for five-car trains.
The two entrances - one with an escalator - are one behind the other in the median of the Boulevard Raspail. The NORD-SUD lettering originally affixed there was replaced by METROPOLITAIN after 1930.
vehicles
On line 12, trains of the north-south type Sprague-Thomson ran initially , which differed in several points from the Sprague-Thomson vehicles of the CMP. A striking feature was the power supply of the leading railcar by means of a pantograph . After the takeover of Nord-Sud by CMP, this type of business was given up in the 1930s. In the 1970s, the north-south trains were eliminated in favor of the Sprague-Thomson standard design, and in 1977 modern trains of the MF 67 series came onto the line.
Surroundings
- Hôtel Matignon , official seat and residence of the French Prime Ministers
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 188 .
- ^ 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. 294 .
- ↑ a b Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 295.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 20 .
- ^ Brian Hardy: op. Cit. P. 36.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 20 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 32" E