Bastille (Paris Métro)
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Aboveground platforms at Bastille station. |
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| Date opened | 19 July 1900 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Accesses | Pl. de la Bastille (two) Boul. Bourdon × boul. Henri IV 37, boul. Bourdon 130, rue de Lyon 140, rue de Lyon 1, rue de Charenton 1, boul. Beaumarchais 2, boul. Beaumarchais |
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| Municipality/ Arrondissement |
the 4th arrondissement of Paris | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°51′11″N 2°22′09″E / 48.853082°N 2.369077°ECoordinates: 48°51′11″N 2°22′09″E / 48.853082°N 2.369077°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Bastille is a station on lines 1, 5 and 8 of the Paris Métro. It is located near the former location of the Bastille and remains of the Bastille can be seen on line 5. The platforms for line 1 are situated below road level but above the Basin of the Arsenal and Canal Saint Martin in a short-open air segment. The western end of the line 1 platforms have the sharpest curve used by passenger trains on the Métro, with a radius of only 40 metres.[1] The line 1 platforms, at 123 metres long, are significantly longer than the average Métro platform length.
The line 1 station opened as part of the first stage of the line between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot on 19 July 1900. The line 5 platforms were opened on 17 December 1906 when the line was extended from Gare de Lyon to Lancry (now known as Jacques Bonsergent). The line 8 platforms were opened on 5 May 1931 when the line was extended from Richelieu – Drouot to Porte de Charenton. The platforms on line 1 were decorated in 1989 to celebrate the bicentenary of the French Revolution.
[edit] Nearby
- Place de la Bastille, the location of the Bastille, stormed on 14 July 1789
- Opéra Bastille, opera house
- Promenade Plantée, a 4.5 km long elevated garden along the abandoned railway which led to the former Gare de La Bastille railway station.
- Bassin de l'Arsenal, boat basin
- July Column, a monument to the revolution of 1830
[edit] Gallery
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Line 1 platforms (eastbound view)
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Two Sprague-Thomson trains negotiate the curve at the western end of the Line 1 platforms
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A MP 89 train negotiating the said curve
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Line 5 platforms
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Line 8 platforms
[edit] References
- ^ Hardy, B. Paris Metro Handbook, 3rd edition, Capital Transport Publishing, 1999.
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