Saint-Georges (Paris Metro)
 Saint-Georges
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| place | Paris IX |
| opening | April 8, 1911 |
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Saint-Georges is an underground station on line 12 of the Paris Métro .
location
The metro station is located in the Saint-Georges district of the 9th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue Notre Dame de Lorette at the Place Saint-Georges.
Surname
It is named after the Place Saint-Georges and the rue Saint-Georges that flows into it. The "holy" George (fr: Georges de Lydda) was a Christian martyr who was executed around the year 303 in Lydda .
history
Line 12 was built as Line A by the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (North-Sud) and operated by it until 1930. On April 8, 1911, the Saint-Georges station went into operation when the line opened in 1910 was extended from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Pigalle .
Line A was renamed line 12 on March 27, 1931 after the Nord-Sud had merged in the previous year in the previously competing Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP).
description
The underground station consists of two parallel, adjacent stations, which are separated from each other by a retaining wall pierced in several places. They lie under white-tiled vaults and each have a side platform on a track. The southwest station serves the traffic in the direction of the southern end point Mairie d'Issy , the northeast the trains in the opposite direction.
Like the other subway stations in the north-south, it was built a little more splendidly than the stations of the CMP, but after the renovation at the beginning of the 2000s, it appears simpler. Because of the overhead line originally on the north-south routes , the stations are slightly higher than those of the CMP. They have the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, sufficient for five-car trains.
The only access is on Place Saint-Georges, its unusual design results from the surrounding buildings. Instead of the word METROPOLITAIN, it used to say NORD-SUD.
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.
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 193 .
- ^ 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. 36 .
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Pigalle ← Front Populaire |
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Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Mairie d'Issy → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 42 ″ N , 2 ° 20 ′ 15 ″ E