Porte de Vincennes station
Porte de Vincennes | |||||||||||
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| Location | 81, cours de Vincennes 90, cours de Vincennes 99, cours de Vincennes 102, cours de Vincennes 106, cours de Vincennes 12th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°50′50″N 2°24′28″E / 48.847326°N 2.407759°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | RATP | ||||||||||
| Operated by | RATP | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 (2 side platforms) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | no | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 05-07 | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 19 July 1900 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 5,446,602 (2021) | |||||||||||
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Porte de Vincennes (French pronunciation: [pɔʁt də vɛ̃sɛn]) is a station on line 1 of the Paris Métro, situated on the Cours de Vincennes, at the border of the 12th and 20th arrondissements of Paris. It is named after the Porte de Vincennes, a gate at the former Thiers Wall, which was at the beginning of the road to Vincennes.
History
[edit]The station opened on 19 July 1900 as part of the first stage of line 1 between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot on 19 July 1900, serving as its original eastern terminus. It was the site of the very first construction work on the métro.[1]
Due to its then status as a terminal station, it had a unique platform configuration, consisting of two diverging half-stations on a single-tracked loop, with the southern half-station housing the arrival platform and the northern half-station housing the departure platform. Each half-station consisted of a central island platform flanked by two tracks. Porte Maillot, then the line's western terminus, also had a similar configuration until the line was further extended west in 1937.
The station remained as the line's eastern terminus until it was further extended to Château de Vincennes on 24 March 1934, resulting in several changes in the station's layout. The loop was removed and the tunnels from each half-station were extended to meet further east under avenue de la Porte-de-Vincennes. The outermost track of each half-station was also removed and filled in, creating a large side platform.[2] The platforms were also lengthened under a new reinforced concrete ceiling, past the original tiled vault.
During the automation of line 1, the station had undergone a series of upgrades. The metal panelling installed since the 1960s was removed and the station's platform walls were retiled. Its platforms were closed from 28-29 June 2008 to reenforce and raise the platform level in preparation for the installation of platform screen doors.[3] The line was fully automated in December 2012.[4][5]
In 2019, the station was used by 7,633,984 passengers, making it the 33rd busiest of the Métro network out of 302 stations.[6]
In 2020, the station was used by 4,840,436 passengers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the 17th busiest of the Métro network out of 304 stations.[7]
In 2021, the station was used by 5,446,602 passengers, making it the 25th busiest of the Métro network out of 304 stations.[8]
Passenger services
[edit]Access
[edit]The station has 4 accesses:
- Access 1: rue du Général Niessel (with an ascending escalator)
- Access 2: Passage de la Voûte (with an ascending escalator)
- Access 3: avenue du Docteur Arnold Netter
- Access 4: rue des Pyrénées
Station layout
[edit]| G | Street Level | Exits/Entrances |
| M | Mezzanine | Connecting level, passageway to RER, to Exits/Entrances |
| Platform level | Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right | |
| Westbound | ← toward La Défense – Grande Arche (Nation)
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| Eastbound | toward Château de Vincennes (Saint-Mandé) →
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| Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right | ||
Platforms
[edit]The station has 2 half-stations each with a single wide side platform and a single track with platform screen doors, one for each direction.
The station is also one of only two in the network, along with Porte Dauphine on line 2, to have preserved its original decoration with flat cream-coloured tiles, which was one of the experimental decorations tested in 1900 before the famous bevelled white tiles were selected for other parts of the network.
Other connections
[edit]Tramway
[edit]The station has been served by tramway T3a since 15 December 2012 as part of its extension from Porte d'Ivry to Porte de Vincennes,[9][10] and also by tramway T3b in its initial section from Porte de Vincennes to Porte de la Chapelle that opened on the same day.[11] It is one of four métro stations on the network that is located at one of the former gates of Paris and is served by two tram lines; the other three are Porte de Choisy (line 7), Balard (line 8), and Porte de Versailles (line 12). Basilique de Saint-Denis (line 13) is the only station served by two tram lines not located at one of the former gates of Paris.
Bus
[edit]The station is also served by lines 26, 64, 86, 215, 351, and La Traverse de Charonne (501) of the RATP bus network, and at night, by line N11 of the Noctilien bus network.
Nearby
[edit]- Église Saint-Gabriel
- Lycée Hélène Boucher
- Lycée Maurice-Ravel
- square Réjane
- square Sarah Bernhardt
Gallery
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Extended platform under reinforced concrete -
The station before the installation of platform screen doors -
Old advertising from the 1950-70s revealed when the station was under renovation in 2008 -
Access 1 -
Access 2 -
Access 3 -
Access 4 -
A Guimard entrance can be seen in the background, demolished since 1933
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References
[edit]- ^ Lamming, Clive (2001). Métro Insolite (2011 ed.). p. 139.
- ^ Hardy, B. Paris Metro Handbook. 3rd Ed, 1999. Capital Transport Publishing.
- ^ "La station Porte de Vincennes fermée du 27 au 29 juin". RATP (in French). Archived from the original on 29 June 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ Briginshaw, David (16 November 2011). "Paris Line 1 automation project completed". International Railway Journal. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ Gros, Maryse (25 January 2016). "La RATP et Siemens analysent la panne de la ligne 1 du métro parisien". Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on 25 June 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2019". dataratp2.opendatasoft.com (in French). Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ "Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2020". data.ratp.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ "Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2021". data.ratp.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ "Les 10 ans du T3". RATP. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ "T3b extension to Porte Dauphine". RATP. 8 February 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ Razemon, Olivier (14 December 2012). "Ceci n'est pas (seulement) un tramway". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2024.
