Vaugirard (Métro Paris)
 Vaugirard
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| place | Paris XV |
| opening | November 5, 1910 |
The metro station Vaugirard is an underground station Linie12 the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located in the Saint-Lambert district of the 15th arrondissement of Paris . It is located alongside the Rue de Vaugirard at the level of Place Adolphe-Chérioux.
Surname
It is named after the Rue de Vaugirard, at 4.3 km the longest street in the city. Vaugirard was a village incorporated into Paris in 1860, which was originally called Val Gérard and later Val Girard.
The station is nicknamed Adolphe Chérioux. The entrepreneur and politician Adolphe Chérioux (1818–1934) was a councilor in the 15th arrondissement for 35 years.
History and description
Line 12 was built as Line A by the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (North-Sud) and operated by it until 1930. With the opening of the first section from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Porte de Versailles , the Vaugirard station went into operation on November 5, 1910. 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 .
Under an elliptical vault there are two side platforms on two parallel tracks. The station, which is located in a slight curve, has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, sufficient for five-car trains. Because of the overhead contact line originally on the north-south routes , it is slightly higher than the CMP stations located under similar vaults. 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 subway stations in the north-south, the station was designed somewhat more elaborately than the stations of the CMP, but it lost its original decor in the course of a renovation. The side walls are covered with panels that largely cover the white tiles. The tiles in the ceiling area are no longer available.
An entrance with an upward escalator is on Rue de Vaugirard in front of Place Adolphe-Chérioux, it is marked by a mast with a yellow “M” in a double circle. The original entrance, designed by Adolphe Dervaux , was rotated 180 degrees and had the NORD-SUD logo on it. Two more access stairs are on the opposite side of the street.
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.
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. 212 .
- ^ 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 .
- ^ Jean-Pierre Rigouard: Le Métro de Paris. Tome II . 1st edition. Editions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-847-1 , p. 69 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 23 " N , 2 ° 18 ′ 5" E