Vavin (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Vavin
Vavin station
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 04Paris Metro 4.svg
place Paris VI , Paris XIV
opening January 9, 1910
Battery operated working train TMA14 in the in a curve Station
Main track with track change, to the left the operating track to line 12

The metro station Vavin is an underground station of Line 4 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier Notre-Dame-des-Champs in the 6th arrondissement with the Quartier du Montparnasse in the 14th arrondissement of Paris . It is located along the Boulevard du Montparnasse between Rue Vavin and Boulevard Raspail.

Surname

It is named after the Rue Vavin, which opens into the Boulevard du Montparnasse. The notary Alexis Vavin (1792–1863) owned numerous properties in what is now the 6th arrondissement. He was a member of parliament and belonged to a. the Constituent Assembly from 1848 and the Legislative Assembly from 1849.

History and description

The station was opened on January 9, 1910 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) when the 3900 m long middle section of line 4 from Raspail to Châtelet went into operation. 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.

Under an elliptical vaulted ceiling 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 station describes a gentle curve as the route flows under the southern section of Boulevard Raspail. There an operating track branches off to line 6 . Such a track leads from the other end of the station to line 12 , and there is also a simple track change there . Some of the four entrances are marked with a yellow “M” in a double circle.

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

  1. ↑ The side walls of similar stations of the competing company Nord-Sud run in a straight line vertically in the lower area
  2. ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA

Web links

Commons : Vavin (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 f .
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ^ 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 ° 50 ′ 32 "  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 44.2"  E