Saint-Mandé (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Saint-Mandé
St-Mandé (métro Paris) rénovée (affluence) par Cramos.JPG
Tariff zone 2
Line (s) 01Paris Metro 1.svg
place Saint-Mandé
opening March 24, 1934
Station in the decor of the 1970s, 2006
After removing the panels , the old station signs came to light in 2008
Station stripped of its tiles during renovation, 2009

The Saint-Mandé metro station is an underground station on line 1 of the Paris Métro . It is one of the first metro stations to open outside the Paris metropolitan area .

location

The station is located approx. 200 m east of the Paris city limits. It lies alongside the avenue de Paris, which forms the border between the suburbs of Saint-Mandé and Vincennes , east of avenue Gallieni.

Surname

It is named after the suburb of Saint-Mandé. Its name refers to a 7th century Breton hermit whose relics were brought to the Paris region.

When it opened, the station was named "Tourelle" (turret) after the district there. This referred to a watchtower built in the 13th century in the vicinity of the Château de Vincennes . On April 26, 1937, the station was renamed "Saint-Mandé - Tourelle". The addition “Tourelle” has probably been dispensed with on station signs since the 1970s and generally since the late 1990s.

History and description

The station was put into operation on March 24, 1934 with the 2300 m long western extension of Line 1 from Porte de Vincennes to Château de Vincennes . At the beginning of the 1960s, it was lengthened from 75 m to 90 m to accommodate six-car trains, and the line was rebuilt for operation with rubber-tired trains . In the 1970s, the side walls were covered and new seats and lights were installed.

In the course of the introduction of driverless operation, the platforms were raised in May 2008. The wall coverings were removed again and platform screen doors were installed later . Between May 2011 and December 2012, the changeover to operation with fully automatic trains took place.

The station is located under an elliptical , white tiled ceiling vault, the two tracks are flanked by side platforms. It has two entrances at each end of the station, one on Avenue de Paris and one at the eastern end of Avenue Gallieni. Three of them are marked with candelabras designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the style of Art Deco . There is also an exit with an escalator near the Place du Géneral Leclerc.

vehicles

Since the early 1930s, five-car trains painted gray (with a red 1st class car) of the Sprague-Thomson design ran on Line 1 and stayed there until the 1960s. From May 1963, the Sprague-Thomson trains, which ran on rails, were successively replaced by the MP 59 series with rubber-tyred vehicles , until December 1964 there was mixed traffic of the two modes of operation. The MP 89  CC series followed in 1997, which gave way to the MP 05 series with the start of automatic operation .

Remarks

  1. ↑ The previous station "Saint-Mandé" on line 6 was given the new name Picpus in order to avoid confusion
  2. ↑ On the other lines, the trains (with the red 1st class car or compartment) stayed green
  3. ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA

Web links

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

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 23 f .
  2. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 194 .
  3. ↑ Histoire de Saint-Mandé at mairie-saint-mande.fr, accessed on June 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 133.
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 134.
  6. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132 ff.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 46.8 "  N , 2 ° 25 ′ 9.3"  E