Volontaires (Paris Métro)
 Volontaires
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| place | Paris XV |
| opening | November 5, 1910 |
The Metro Station Volontaires is an underground station Linie12 the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located in the Necker district on the border with the Saint-Lambert district in the 15th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue de Vaugirard at the level of the crossing Rue des Volontaires.
Surname
The name gives the Rue des Volontaires. It originated as Ruelle Volontaire (roughly: Deliberate Alley), which was created by residents in 1822 to connect an existing cul-de-sac with Rue de Vaugirard. The later name change to Rue des Volontaires (Street of the Volunteers) is probably a tribute to the volunteer soldiers of the year II of the French Revolution .
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 Volontaires 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 main tracks. The station 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 underground stations in the north-south, the station was built a little more splendid than the stations of the CMP. The wall cladding that was attached during a renovation in the second half of the 20th century was removed again in 2015.
The only access is on the northwest corner of the intersection of Rue de Vaugirard and Rue des Volontaires. It is located in a single-storey brick building that was erected in 1910 and is indicated by a yellow "M" in a double circle.
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 .
- ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 72 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 29 ″ N , 2 ° 18 ′ 27 ″ E