Victor Hugo (Métro Paris)
 Victor Hugo
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris XVI |
| opening | December 13, 1900 |
Victor Hugo is an underground station on line 2 of the Paris Métro .
location
The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier de Chaillot and the Quartier de la Porte-Dauphine in the 16th arrondissement of Paris . It is located under Avenue Victor-Hugo east of Place Victor-Hugo.
Surname
It is named after Place Victor-Hugo and Avenue Victor-Hugo. The writer Victor Hugo (1802–1885) is one of the most important French writers, his most famous works include Notre Dame de Paris ( The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ) and Les Misérables ( The Wretched ) . After his death he was given a grave of honor in the Panthéon national hall of fame .
history
A first station went into operation on December 13, 1900, when the first section of line 2 from Porte Dauphine to Étoile (today: Charles de Gaulle - Étoile ) was opened.
It was on a curve that leads from avenue Victor-Hugo under avenue Bugeaud, just below Place Victor-Hugo. When the original two-axle vehicles were replaced by longer, four-axle vehicles, there were large gaps between the platform edges and the vehicle doors. For this reason, a new, straight-line station was built immediately to the northeast in 1930.
description
Since the old and new stations merge directly into one another, the impression of a subway station with the unusual length of 142 m is created. Of this, however, only the straight section of approx. 75 m in length is used for five-car trains.
Both stations are under elliptical , white tiled vaults. The side walls of the old station follow the curvature of the ellipse, those of the new one run vertically in the lower area. The only access is at the confluence of the eastern section of the avenue Victor-Hugo in the Place Victor-Hugo, it was designed by Hector Guimard in the style of Art nouveau .
vehicles
Until October 1902 two-axle railcars with wooden superstructures ran on the route. Unlike those on Line 1, they had two driver's cabs, as they had to be moved to the other end of the train at the temporary Étoile coupling point . Initially, two sidecars were carried. After the line was extended to Anvers on October 7, 1902, trains were made up of six sidecars and one railcar at each end of the train.
From 1914 to 1981 line 2 was used by five-part, green-painted trains of the Sprague-Thomson design . Since it was not to be converted to vehicles with rubber tires in the medium term, the MF 67 series was launched in 1979 , completely replacing its predecessor within two years. Series vehicles of the MF 01 series have been in use since 2008, and exclusively since 2011.
Remarks
- ↑ To distinguish it from line 2 south (part of today's line 6), the line was initially called 2 north
- ↑ Towards the end of their service life, gray Sprague Thomson trains, which were originally reserved for Line 1, were also put on Line 2
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 210 .
- ↑ 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. 146 .
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 154.
- ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 185 .
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Porte Dauphine ← Porte Dauphine |
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Charles de Gaulle - Étoile Nation → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '17.7 " N , 2 ° 21' 57.2" E