Saint-Jacques (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Saint-Jacques
141012 Saint-Jacques IMG 5811.JPG
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 06Paris Metro 6.svg
place Paris XIV
opening April 24, 1906
Class MP 73 train entering the tunnel
Access structure from 1904
East of the station, the leading ramp begins the viaduct, in the background the station is Glacière recognizable

Saint-Jacques is an above-ground station on line 6 of the Paris Métro .

location

The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier du Montparnasse and the Quartier du Parc de Montsouris in the 14th arrondissement of Paris . It is located in a cut in the median of Boulevard Saint-Jacques , southeast of its intersection with the street Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques - Rue de la Tombe-Issoire.

Surname

It is named after the Boulevard Saint-Jacques, south of which the former suburb of Faubourg Saint-Jacques began. Jacques de Zébédée (Eng .: James the Elder ) was one of the twelve apostles of Christianity .

history

On April 24, 1906, the station went into operation when the section from Place d'Italie to Passy was opened. This was part of line 2 Sud. On October 14, 1907, the previously independent line 2 Sud was abandoned and moved to the south-western end of line 5 (Étoile - Gare du Nord ). On October 6, 1942, the route was changed again, so that line 6 has been running at the station since then. In July 1974 the line was switched to rubber-tired trains .

description

The station is located in a cut between the two carriageways of the Boulevard Saint-Jacques, which rises from east to west. It has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m and has two full-length covered side platforms on two main tracks. Immediately to the west of the station is the mouth of the tunnel, to the east of the station the route rises and becomes an elevated railway lying on a viaduct .

The brick entrance structure was built in 1904 according to plans by the architect Jean-Camille Formigé , it is located above the tunnel mouth at the intersection of the Boulevard Saint-Jacques and the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques - Rue de la Tombe-Issoire.

vehicles

Today's line 6 was used by Sprague-Thomson trains from around 1910 . In July 1974 the line was switched to vehicles with rubber tires, and the MP 73 series has been operating there ever since .

Surroundings

The La Santé prison is located in the immediate vicinity of the station .

Web links

Commons : Saint-Jacques (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. 193 .
  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. 210 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 72 .
  5. ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 107 .
  6. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 219 f.
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