photo(s) Paris metro and other network

[Minato ku]

 Bercy

Bercy is home to two line the line 6 (platform hall opened in 1909) and 14, the line 14 platform hall opened in 1998 with the opening of the line,

The interchange corridors between lines 6 and 14 are undersized for rush hours traffic, the estimation of traffic were underestimated. 

A second access will be built following the future extensions of line 14 and the increase of the lenght of the trains (6 to 8 cars). 

Note that due to security norms, there are already two access on both side of the platforms, the second is only for emergency. Several years ago, during some works on escalators, they opened this emergency exit for passengers traffic.

 

 

 

Bercy had 5,565,249 entries in 2011, this number doesn't include transfer between lines 6 and 14.

[Minato ku]

Roissypole (CDG airport) bus station

While this bus station is located in the Charles de Gaulle airport area, it does not cater to air passengers but mostly to workers.

The air travelers take buses going directly to the numerous terminal.

Roissypole is one of the transportation main hubs of the CDG airport area with RER B and CDGVAL the mini metro network of CDG airport.

 

There is a a big diversity of bus network here.

8 bus networks and 30 lines 

CIF is the largest network here with 12 lines, the RATP operate 4 lines to Roissypole.

CIF (Courriers de l'Île-de-France) network serves the northeast suburbs and exburbs of Paris.

RATP line 349 (Mercedes Citaro)

CIF line 32 (Heuliez GX 317) , RATP lines 350 (Mercedes Citaro) and CDGbus (Man Lion's City G)

CIF line 32 (Setra S 315)

Busval d'Oise, a bus network serving the Val d'Oise departement in northwestern outer suburbs. Part of the CDG airport lies in Val d'Oise. (Irisbus Citelis)

CIF line 43 (Mercedes Citaro)

 

RATP line 349, the operation of this line is shared with CIF network (Irisbus Agora)

CIF T'bus, this line specially serve the municipality of Tremblay en France near the airport (Irisbus Agora)

Filéo, it is a bus network working on demand in CDG airport area.

It works at any time everyday and every hours, you just need to book the bus at least 1:30 in advance.

[Minato ku]

Grand Paris Express contracts awarded

13 Sep 2013

 

FRANCE: Having approved a budget of €5·3bn in July for the first phase of its ambitious programme to develop a network of automated metro lines around the capital, Société du Grand Paris has now awarded a tranche of design and project management contracts.

 

Forming part of a sustainable development strategy for the region which will improve access to outlying districts, the Grand Paris Express project envisages the construction of 200 km of new lines and 72 stations, able to carry around 2 million passengers a day.

 

Technical assistance with electrical and mechanical systems for lines 15, 16 and 17 will be provided by EGIS and SETEC-ITS, including tunnel and station equipment, trackwork, power supplies and communications systems. SGP will be supported in the specification and procurement of rolling stock, automation equipment and the control centres control systems by Systra, working in conjunction with its partner-shareholder RATP.

 

Systra will also be responsible for systems integration and performance management. It will assist SGP with commissioning successive phases of the network between 2020 and 2030, starting with the southern section of Line 15 between Noisy-Champs and Pont-de-Sèvres.

 

Two separate contract cover infrastructure design and construction supervision on this initial route. The 21 km southeastern section of Line 15 between Noisy-Champs and Villejuif Louis Aragon, together with eight stations, will be managed by a Systra-led joint venture including architects ANMA Agence Nicolas Michelin Associés, Agence Richez Associés, Agence Valode and Pistre Architects and Atelier d’Architecture King Kong.

 

Infrastructure on the southwestern section from Villejuif Louis Aragon to Pont de Sèvres plus the two maintenance depots will be the responsibility of another group led by SETEC, including Ingérop and architects Philippe Gazeau, ArThème Associés, Atelier Barani, Périphériques Architectes, Brunet Saunier Architecture and Agence Duthilleul. Separate contracts are to be awarded later this month for design and construction of the stations at Villejuif Institut Gustave Roussy and Noisy Champs.

 

Both consortia will be responsible to the Artemis grouping of Artelia, Arcadis and B G Ingénieurs Conseil which was appointed by SGP last year as overall project manager.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/grand-paris-express-contracts-awarded.html

[Minato ku]

 Porte de Montreuil

Porte de Montreuil opened in December 1933, it was the eastern terminal station of line 9 during less than 4 years with the opening of the extension to Montreuil in 1937.

Something weird when you see the size of the station with 4 platforms and the big vaulted ceiling.

 

Not suprising when you know the history of Paris metro.

There were the battle between two plan for Paris that delayed the construction of a subway system in Paris for years.

-A municipal project: a metro serving only the city limits with a high density of station.

-A national project, a metro serving the city and its suburbs (many were not really urbanized back then) using track of the suburban rail track on the periphery and tunnel in the city limits with a lower density of station, something similar to the first London underground lines.

The municipal project win and Paris metro was planned as a metro that would only serve the city limits.

Tunnels were built narrowly on purpose to avoid that the the trains of the railroads companies could run on metro infrastructure. 

 

Decades later, just after the first world war, the suburbs of Paris has grow but without proper infrastructures and planning, there are numberous slums, little factories and transports are seriopusly lacking.

There is plan to create a Greater Paris area to have a better planning of the urbanisation of Paris.

Among the proposed ideas, the extension of Paris metro line to the suburbs. Unfortunately because of WWII, much of the plan for a Greater Paris have been canceled and only the metro extension, under in construction built or planned have remained.

 

So, you need to understand that this Porte de Montreuil was built according the first plan of Paris metro, a system retained inside the city limit of Paris but during the construction, projects of suburban extensions were put on the table. Projects that were quickly realized for most of them. 

 

Note that if Porte de Montreuil is sized to be a terminal station, it is not the case of the current eastern terminus of the line 9, Mairie de Montreuil, sied like an average station with only two platforms.

Mairie de Montreuil as a terminal station was only planned to be provisional until a latter extension more in the east, unfortunately this project was halted because of the WW2.

As such the oversized size of Porte de Montreuil is useful, trains are often stored here and many features normally located in the terminal station are here.

 

Back in Porte de Montreuil, you may notice that this station has been renovated during the 2000's.

You can still see the support of the former lights and signs.

 

A pciture of Porte de Montreuil in the 1930's, I found on Wikipedia.

The train on this picture is a Sprague Thomson, the iconic model of Paris metro built between 1908 and 1936.

The last service of a Sprague Thomson was on the line 9 in April 1983.

 

Porte de Montreuil had 4,822,893 entries in 2011.

[Minato ku]

  Chelles - Gournay

Chelles - Gournay station is located in eastern suburbs of Paris.

The station opened in 1849 with the first part of the railway line between Paris and Strasbourg in eastern France, it has been rebuilt several time since then.

Since 1999, this station is the eastern terminal stop of the Chelles branch of the RER E, it is also the first stop of the Transilien P services from Gare de l'Est in Central Paris to Meaux, a commuter town east of Paris.

With the arrival of the high speed trains to Gare de l'Est,in 2007, this station has been heavily modernized and reconstructed to allow a higher number of non stop trains. New tracks have been added with new east bound platforms.

 

Chelles - Gournay in 2004. Four tracks and four platforms

Chelles - Gournay, nowadays in 2011. Six tracks and fours platforms

 

Chelles - Gournay has 6 tracks and four platforms, the two central tracks without platforms are used by non stopping trains, including TGV high speed trains, the start of the high speed tracks of the East high speed line (LGV Est) is 3 miles east of Chelles. The LGV Est line links to east of France and Germany.

The two outer tracks and platforms on each side are used by the RER E and the two other plaforms by Transilien P trains that stop at this station.

 

Z 50000 of the Transilien leaving Chelles to Meaux

Z 22500 aka MI2N Eole of the RER E leaving the station to Haussmann Saint-Lazare in Central Paris

TGV bound to Paris Est station

A RER E train terminating its journey at Chelles - Gournay. You will notice that I am on the oposite platforms than on the previous pics, this platform is older.

Z 20500 aka Z2N of the Transilien P bound to Paris Est station passing through the station, you can also notice a Z 22500 of the RER E approaching

RER E bound to Haussmann Saint-Lazare

 

[Minato ku]

 Villejuif - Louis Aragon

Villejuif - Louis Aragon is the last stop of the Villejuif branch of the metro line 7 in the southern inner suburbs. 

It is also the northern terminal stop of the tram line T7 that will open on November 16. This line will links the metro station of Villejuif - Louis Aragon with Athis-Mons, a suburb located south of Orly airport.

T7 is 11.2km with 18 stops , the line mostly follow the national road 7 serving houses, offices parks, malls, industrial parks and the south terminal of Orly airport.

 

T7 will open in one month and before this opening, starts the ghost running.

A full month with normal operating but without passengers.

You can see that some of the paving work is not over.

 

With the arrival of the tram, the bus station has seen a renovation. Villejuif - Louis Aragon is served by 10 bus lines and 2 night bus lines.

A new entrance to the metro has been built

 

 

 

[bobtehpanda]

Are storefronts in Metro stations common in Paris?

[Minato ku]

By storefront you mean stores inside the metro station?

If it is that, this is quite common.

Not in all stations, but many stations have at least a Relay shop.

Relay is a chain of stores that sell newspapers, magasines, some books and some food. Relay are mostly located on transit area, metro stations, trains stations, airports..

 

Some stations have various kind of shop appart of the usual Relay, clothing stores, beauty product, vegetables, takeaway (mostly sandwich or/and asian foods).

Paris metro stations have stores but those are not underground malls.

[Minato ku]

 Trinité - d'Estienne d'Orves

The station opened in 1910 with the line A of the former Nord Sud network that latter became line 12 when the Nord Sud company merged with the rest of Paris metro.

The station has a carrossage style, metal panels put over the original wall of the station during the 1950's 1960's, see post #128. 

 

I have recently learnt that carrossage were put not only because of the bad state of stations and the lack of fund of RATP to completly renovate stations but also because the Nord Sud stations had a different size of advertising signboards.

Those signboards required smaller posters and this lowered the advertising revenue of the Nord Sud style stations compared with other stations.

To solve this problem, RATP had massively put Carrossage on former Nord Sud stations.

 

 

Trinité - d'Estienne d'Orves had 2,192,391 entries in 2011.

While the station is located in a busy district in Central Paris, it is too close of Saint-Lazare and other big hubs. 

[Minato ku]

 Victor Hugo

In this picture, they are repainting the Guimard entrance of this station.

If you see this picture you may wonder why there are two colors. Are they changing the color of this entrance?

The answer is no. They paint in brown for rustproof covering and then they paint in green over it.

 

 

Guimard entrances are one of the most famous symbol of Paris metro.

Guimard was a famous French Art Nouveau designer/architect/artist of the end of the 19th, early 20th.

[Minato ku]

  First day of service of the MF01 stock on line 9.

Today (October 21, 2013) was a great day, the first commercial ride of MF 01 on line 9. 

Four MF 01 are now in service (#096, #097, #098 and #099) in the line.

While this stock already run on line 2 and 5, the MF 01 of line 9 have a new livery (see post #221). 

 

Those trains will replace the old MF67 trains of line 9 built during the 70's.

By 2016, the delivery of MF01 will be complete.

This is also the last part of MF01 order, this stock was created to serve lines 2, 5 and 9. 

 

Nation

Pont de Sèvres (western last stop) 

Saint-Augustin

Strasbourg - Saint-Denis

Miromesnil

[realizm]

Keep up the good work man this thread is getting better by the minute

[Minato ku]

Thank you!

 

MAN Lion's City L of the line 95 have been replaced by Irisbus Citelis 18 (with RATP/STIF livery).

Line 95 links Porte de Vanves in the south with Porte de Montmartre in the north, serving Gare Saint-Lazare, Opera, Louvre, Montparnasse.

The former MAN Lion's City L of line 95 now run on line 26.

 

Line 95 at Opéra 

 

 

 

With this move, the line 26 become a line with articulated bus, it was the busiest line operated with standart bus of inner Paris.

Line 26 links Gare Saint-Lazare and Gare du Nord with Nation passing through the northeast of inner Paris.

Line 26 at Nation, the eastern terminal.

 

It is only the first stop and buses are already stuck in traffic jams. 

 

Both lines meet at Gare Saint-Lazare (see page 11).

[Minato ku]

Paris metro extension planning

This does not include the extension done for Grand Paris Express project, so the new lines 15 to 18 and some extension of lines 11 and 14.

• Line 4 to Bagneux
  
• Line 12 to Aubervilliers
  
• Line 14 to Mairie-de-Saint-Ouen
  
• Line 11 to Rosny-Bois-Perrier
  

 

Before 2030

• Line 7 to Bourget RER
  
• Line 1 to Val-de-Fontenay
  
• Line 10 to Ivry
  
• Line 9 to Murs-à-Pêches (Montreuil)
  
• Line 12 to Issy RER
  

 

After 2030

• Line 5 to Place de Rungis (south)
  
• Line 5 to Drancy (north)
  
• Merge of line 7bis and line 3bis
  
• Line 10 to Les Ardoines
  

 

Paris metro ridership in 2012

1,541 million (+1.12%)

We are approaching of the peak of 1946, 2012 was the second busiest year of the network.

This is five busiest years of Paris metro.

1. 1946: 1,598 million
   
2. 2012: 1,541 million
   
3. 2011: 1,524 million
   
4. 1945: 1,508 million
   
5. 2010: 1,506 million
   

 

[Minato ku]

 Créteil-Pompadour

Located in Creteil a southeastern inner suburbs, this station under in construction will open in December 2013.

Créteil-Pompadour will replace Villeneuve-Prairie located 800m (870 yards) further south.

This new station will provide interchange with two BRT line (TVM and 393).

 

Pompadour is a big highway exchange with many retail boxes, warehouses and a big train yard.

The area around the station is under in redevelopment.

 

The current station Villeneuve-Prairie has a very low traffic, it serves only a train yard and a park.

 

Pictures in taken in early September

 

[Minato ku]

 Parmentier

The station opened on 1904 with the line 3.

Parmentier is located at the intersection of Avenue de la Republique and Avenue Parmentier, Antoine Parmentier was a scientist who promoted the cultivation of the potato in France and Europe.

 

Guimard style entrance

Potato is the theme of the station, there are information panels about it and a statue of Antoine Parmentier.

Notice the carrossage style indicating that this station was renovated during the 1960's (see post #128)

 

Parmentier had 3,357,432 entries in 2011.

[Turbo19]

Thanks for the new shares!

[Minato ku]

Thank you

 

 Opening

Today, the 7th line of Paris tram network opened.

This line is 11.2km long with 18 stations, it links Villejuif Louis Aragon with Athis Mons and serves Orly airports and the industrial areas around.

With the T7, Paris tram network has now 81.2km of lines and 145 stations. It doubled of size in one year.

 

At Villejuif Louis Aragon, the northern terminal stop with transfor to metro line 7 and several bus lines, it was quite difficult to move.

 

This tram line mostly follow the former national road 7.

The weather is cold and I have already let one tram, I will take this one...

..until the last stop.

[Minato ku]

  Opening

 

This Athis Mons - Porte d'Essonne, the southern terminal stop.

The station is right south of Orly airport, there isn't a lot of thing at close proximity of the station except a mall.

Until 2018, this will remain the soutern terminal of T7 after the line will be extended to Juvisy, a big RER station.

Look the statue of the plane, in my opinion this might be a real old airplane.

This is the only station of the line with an island platform

Aéroport d'Orly, Orly aiport. The tram station is near the West terminal. It is linked by a corridor with a moving walkway.

 

Saarinen, in Sillic business park in Rungis. Rungis is famous for its huge wholesale food market.

La Belle Épine. Belle Epine is one of the biggest mall in France.

 

Information system, name of the station, transfer available, points of interest nearby and a map.

 

[Minato ku]

 Pelleport

Pelleport opened in 1921 with the extension of the line 3 from Gambetta to Porte des Lilas in the northeast of the City of Paris.

During the 1960's, the sector of Bagnolet has a very high demand on public transportation but no service to the metro, an extension is planned from Gambetta to Bagnolet.

It is seen that the section between Gambetta and Porte des Lilas has a very low traffic, so instead of having two branchs, one with a high traffic and a second with a low traffic, in 1971 the section between Gambetta and Porte de Lilas is disconnected of the main line 3 which is extented to Bagnolet.

This is the birth of the line 3bis.

 

The line 3bis is the smallest line of Paris metro with only 1.3km and  4 stations and has the lowest ridership.

It is served by 3 cars MF67 trains.

The line 3bis despite its low ridership has decently good frequencies with a trains every 3-5 minutes during the day.

 

Because of the difficult ground Pelleport (like all the stations of line 3 except Gambetta) is built deeply under the ground and has lifts.

 

 

Pelleport was in 2011, the station with the second lowest number of entries, only 364,642.

Note that the lowest Eglise d'Auteuil (see post #199) is only served in one way (westbound to the periphery), so it is mostly used for exiting.

It makes Pelleport, the full station with the lowest ridership.

[Minato ku]

Collision between a bus and a car.

A MAN Lion's City G of the line 183 and a Renault Laguna.

 

[Cyberider]

Great photos of some fantastic looking equipment and facilities.  Thanks for keeping this thread going with so much interesting info and photos for so long. 

[Turbo19]

Nice additions so far.

[Minato ku]

Thank you everybody ! 

 

 Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

Notre-Dame-de-Lorette opened in 1910 with the opening of the former Nord Sud line A that become later the line 12.

It was the northern terminal station of this first section before the opening of the extension to Pigalle several months latter.

The station has been renovated in 1984 using a Motte style like many other stations, there is no remainder of the former Nord Stude style.

 

Southbound, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette is located before a very tight curve.

It is where happen the last most serious accident in Paris metro. On August 2000, a driver drove the train too fast on the curve and the front carriage derailled.

It slid on its side and crashed on the bulkhead of the northbound platform, fortunately there were no fatality and only 24 people were injuried.

 

 

A southbound train arrives in the station, just after the curve.

Look the short distance between Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and the following station Trinité – d'Estienne d'Orves (see post #259)

 

Notre-Dame-de-Lorette had 2,849,349 entries in 2011.

[Minato ku]

 École vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort

The station opened in 1970 with the extension of line 8 from the Charenton - Écoles (which opened in 1942) to Maisons-Alfort - Stade in southeastern inner suburbs, the line was extended few years latter to Créteil and to Pointe du Lac its actual eastern terminal in 2011 (see post #26).

The area where is located the station is home of the national veterinary school of Alfort founded in 1765.

École vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort is the hub for RATP bus lines using natural gas vehicles (see post #20).

 

The station has a typical box style of the 70's with yellow and orange tiles.

École vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort had 3,371,386 entries in 2011.

 

Between Charenton - Écoles and École vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, the line 8 crosses the Marne river and A4 freeway. This section is above the ground.

Above the Marne river

Note that the bridge has been painted in green since I took this picture.

Above the A4 freeway, the freeway is built in the bank of the Marne river.