Saint-Martin (Paris Métro)
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 Train the Sprague-Thomson series on one of the platforms |
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| Arrondissement | Paris III |
| Opened | May 5, 1931 |
| Closed | September 2, 1939 |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 52 '6 " N , 2 ° 21' 31" E |
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Saint-Martin is an underground metro station on lines 8 and 9 of Métro Paris . It has been closed to passenger traffic since September 2, 1939 and is now one of the RATP's ghost stations (“Stations fantômes”) .
location
The station is located lengthways under the Boulevard Saint-Martin on the border of the 3rd and 10th arrondissements of Paris . It is located between the transfer stations Strasbourg - Saint-Denis and République .
Surname
It is named after the Boulevard Saint-Martin. Martin was Bishop of Tours in the 4th century . There are various legends about him, including the fact that he parted his coat and gave half to a freezing beggar.
history
The station of line 8 was opened on May 5, 1931, that of line 9 on December 10, 1933. On February 1, 1932 , the acceptance ceremony for the extended line 9, which was officially handed over to the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) on that day, had already taken place there, in the presence of the “father of the Métro” Fulgence Bienvenüe .
At the beginning of the Second World War , the underground station, like 72 others, was closed to passenger traffic. First reopened after the war, it was closed for a second time due to its proximity to the Strasbourg - Saint-Denis transfer station and has been passed through by trains without stopping ever since.
description
The tracks of line 9 are below those of line 8. Each track has its own platform in a separate tunnel on the outside of the lines. The platforms are each 105 m long, the width of the entire structure is 20.20 m.
To the east of the subway station, a service track branches off from the northern track of line 8 to line 5 , which crosses the northern track of line 9. Then the tracks of line 9 rise to the level of line 8.
Others
Since 1999, part of the underground station has been used as winter accommodation for the homeless, and it has also been used repeatedly for filming and advertising events. In 2010, for example, vehicles from a Japanese automobile company were set up on one of the platforms and presented to passengers as the trains passed through the station in an effective advertising design.
Staircase with unevenly wide areas for arriving and departing passengers
Pedestrian tunnel in the Saint-Martin metro station
Line 9 platform and tunnel, view towards République
Frame for poster advertising and station sign made of wall tiles
See also
Web links
literature
- Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 .
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Clive Lamming : Métro insolite . 2nd Edition. Editions Parigramme, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-84096-190-1 , pp. 129 ff .
- ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 216 .
- ^ Christoph Groneck: Metros in France . 1st edition. Robert Schwandl, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936573-13-1 , p. 62 .
- ↑ Le Huffington Post: Les décors du film "Prometheus" débarquent dans le métro parisien , accessed on December 15, 2013
- ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris , page 140.