Varenne (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svg Varenne
Varenne (1) par Cramos.JPG
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 13Paris Metro 13.svg
place Paris VII
opening December 20, 1923
Before the platform screen doors were installed, the MP 73 series train pulled out of the Invalides turning loop , 2006
Central platform with “Motte” -style benches and replicas of two sculptures by Auguste Rodin , 2005
Side platform with platform screen doors, white tiled benches, 2017
Access with a “Val d'Osne” candelabra

The metro station Varenne is an underground station of Line 13 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard des Invalides at the level of the Rue de Varenne, which goes off to the east.

Surname

It is named after the Rue de Varenne. "Varenne" is a modification of the word "garenne" (German: wild rabbit area). This rabbit-populated area was on the territory of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey .

History and description

The station went into operation on December 30, 1923, when the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) opened the first section of what was then Line 10 between the Invalides and Croix-Rouge stations . On July 27, 1937, the route of some metro lines in the south of Paris was changed, from now on line 14 ran at Varenne station. At the beginning of the Second World War , the metro station was closed in 1939 and only reopened on December 24, 1962.

Line 14 was connected to line 13 on November 9, 1976 and was given the line name. Line number 14 was assigned to a new line in 1998 .

The station is located under an elliptical , white-tiled vault. It is 75 m long and has a side and a central platform on three tracks. All northbound trains run on the side platform on the east side, and those coming from Rive Droite on the eastern track of the central platform . Its western track is reserved for the trains traveling south, coming out of the turning loop at the Invalides underground station . In the 1970s the station was redesigned. In line with the style named “Motte” after the designer Joseph-André Motte, it was given benches covered with (in this case gray and matt blue) tiles and light strips above the platforms. Replicas of two sculptures by Auguste Rodin were placed on the central platform . Between 2009 and 2012, the benches on the central platform were removed, and in 2017 those on the side platform were tiled in white.

The station has only one exit and is marked by a Val d'Osne candelabra . In the course of the conversion of line 13 to automatic train operation , the platforms were provided with platform screen doors in 2012 .

On July 29, 2007, a brake block on a train entering the station from the north caught fire. Although the fire was quickly extinguished, 15 people suffered severe poisoning and 20 others less.

vehicles

Line 13 has been used by vehicles from the MF 77 series since 1978 . Before that, there were MF 67 vehicles on the road, which in turn replaced the Sprague-Thomson trains in 1976.

Surroundings

Near the Varenne station you will find the Hôtel des Invalides museum complex with the tomb of Napoleon Bonapartes in the Invalides , the Musée Rodin museum dedicated to the work of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and the official residence of the Prime Minister, Hôtel Matignon .

Others

The Varenne station was used as the location for the 1963 feature film Charade. For this purpose, it was signposted as the fictional Saint-Jacques underground station on line 1 . A Saint-Jacques station actually exists as a double-track above-ground station on line 6 .

Web links

Commons : Varenne (Paris Metro)  - 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. 209 .
  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. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 82.
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 74.
  6. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 311.
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