Saint-Placide (Paris Metro)
 Saint-Placide
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| place | Paris VI |
| opening | January 9, 1910 |
The Metro Station Saint-Placide is an underground station of Line 4 of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located in the Notre-Dame-des-Champs district of the 6th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue de Rennes at its intersection with the Rue de Vaugirard .
Surname
It is named after the Rue Saint-Placide, which flows into the Rue de Rennes. Placidus of Subiaco (approx. 515-543) was one of the first Benedictine monks , in the Catholic Church he is considered a saint (fr: saint ) and martyr .
The original name "Vaugirard" was derived from the Rue de Vaugirard. With 4.3 km longest street in Paris led to the southwest from the city suburb Vaugirard , which was incorporated in 1860 to Paris.
history
The station went into operation on January 9, 1910 under the name "Vaugirard" when the 3900 m long middle section of line 4 from Raspail to Châtelet was opened. With its commissioning, the previously separate south and north branches of the line were connected to form a line running from Porte de Clignancourt in the north to Porte d'Orléans in the south.
The station has had its current name since November 15, 1913, as it was confused with the Vaugirard underground station on Line A (since 1930: Line 12 ) built by the competing company Nord-Sud .
description
Under an elliptical, white tiled ceiling vault with curved side walls, the station has side platforms on two parallel tracks. It was originally 75 m long, but in the mid-1960s it was extended to 90 m and converted for use with pneumatic trains .
The only access is at the confluence of the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, it is marked by a candelabra of the type "Val d'Osne". Diagonally opposite, at the junction with Rue du Regard, there is an additional exit with an escalator.
To the north of the station, the tunnel of line 4 crosses that of line 12. Since the two lines were built by different railway companies, no transfer station was created at the intersection of Rue de Rennes and Boulevard Raspail .
vehicles
Until 1928, 5-car trains consisting of initially three twin-engine and later two four-engine railcars and sidecars ran on Line 4 . They were replaced by Sprague-Thomson trains , which were successively replaced by rubber-tired 6-car trains of the MP 59 series in 1966/67 . The MP 89 CC series is currently in use on Line 4 .
Remarks
- ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
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. 197 .
- ^ Gérard Roland, op. Cit. P. 209.
- ↑ a b 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. 183 f .
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
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Saint-Sulpice ← Porte de Clignancourt |
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Montparnasse - Bienvenüe Mairie de Montrouge → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 48.6 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 36.9" E