Solférino (Paris Métro)
 Solférino Musée d'Orsay |
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| opening | November 5, 1910 |
The metro station Solferino is an underground station of Line 12 of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located on the border of the Quartier Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin and the Quartier des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard Saint-Germain at the level of the crossing Rue de Bellechasse.
Surname
It is named after the Rue de Solférino, which flows into the Boulevard Saint-Germain. In the Battle of Solferino in the Sardinian War defeated the French troops under Napoléon III on June 24, 1859 . the Austrian army. The cruelty of the battle and the fate of the wounded led Henry Dunant to found the Red Cross .
history
The station opened on November 5, 1910, when the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (North-Sud) put the first section of its line A from Porte de Versailles to Notre-Dame-de-Lorette into operation . On March 27, 1931, line A was renamed line 12 after the Nord-Sud had been absorbed by the previously competing Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) the previous year .
description
Under an elliptical , white tiled vault, there are two side platforms on two main tracks. In contrast to the stations set up by the CMP, the side walls do not follow the curvature of the ellipse, but run vertically in the lower area. Typically for the underground stations in the north-south, the station was built somewhat more splendidly than the stations of the CMP, and it is slightly higher because of the original overhead line . It has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, sufficient for five-car trains.
The two entrances are at the confluence of the Rue Saint-Dominique with the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Place Jacques Bainville.
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.
Surroundings
The Musée d'Orsay art museum is around 300 meters away .
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. 200 .
- ^ 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 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 30 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 24 ″ E