Vaneau (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svg Vaneau
Vaneau metro quai 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 10Paris Metro 10.svg
place Paris VI , Paris VII
opening December 30, 1923
Access to Vaneau station
Fontaine du Fellah

Vaneau is an underground station on line 10 of the Paris Métro .

location

The metro station Vaneau is located on the border of Quartier Notre-Dame-des-Champs in the 6th arrondissement, the Quartier Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in the 7th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue de Sèvres at the level of the rue Vaneau which flows into it.

Surname

It is named after Rue Vaneau , which leads north from Rue de Sèvres . Louis Vaneau (1811-1830) was a student of the École polytechnique , who died in the nearby Rue de Babylone during the July Revolution of 1830 .

History and description

The station was put into operation on December 30, 1923 with the opening of line 10. This was then extended from Invalides to Croix-Rouge (closed since 1939). The section between the Invalides and Duroc stations is now served by line 13 .

It is 75 m long, lies under an elliptical vault and has two side platforms on two main tracks. The ceiling and the walls are tiled in white. The only entrance is in a small building outside the street, it is designed in the style of Art Deco .

vehicles

Conventional MF 67 series trains run on Line 10 . Between 1975 and 1994 trains of the MA series ran , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type .

Surroundings

Web links

Commons : Vaneau (Métro Paris)  - 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. 208 .
  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. 270 .
  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. 62 .
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 273.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 56 ″  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 18 ″  E