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The first line (ligne 1) was opened in 1900 as part of a planned six-line network [View 1952 network]. Currently, Paris has 14 Métro lines and 2 branches (see full map here) that are operated as separate lines. As of July 2024, the total length of the network is roughly 245.5 km: L1 | L2 | L3 | L4 | L5 | L6 | L7 | L8 | L9 | L10 | L11 | L12 | L13 | L14 |
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19/07/1900:
Porte de Vincennes – Port Maillot (8 stations of 18,
the rest were opened between 06/08/1900 and 01/09/1900) |
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13/12/1900:
Porte Dauphine – Charles de Gaulle Etoile
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10/10/1904:
Père Lachaise – Villiers
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27/11/1921: Gambetta – Porte des Lilas (originally part of line 3, since 1971 separate)
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21/04/1908:
Porte de Clignancourt – Châtelet Les Halles station reconstructed and reopened on 03/10/1977 with new RER station. After the first section of the southern extension from Porte d'Orléans to Mairie de Montrouge was brought into service in March 2013, line 4 was extended further south, with two stations, Barbara and Bagneux-Lucie Aubrac. Bagneux extension: Project Website
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02/06/1906:
Place d'Italie – Gare d’Orléans (now Gare d’Austerlitz)
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02/10/1900:
Étoile – Trocadéro At Étoile - Charles de Gaulle trains reverse in a loop, there is also such a loop at Nation which is only used during rush hours.
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05/11/1910:
Porte de la Villette – Opéra Pierre Curie station renamed Pierre et Marie Curie on 8 Mar 2007.
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18/01/1911: Pré-St.Gervais – Louis Blanc (line 7 branch, separate line since 1967) |
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13/07/1913:
(Charles Michels on today's Line 10) – La Motte Picquet
Grenelle – Opéra At
Commerce platforms are not opposite each other, but staggered. |
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08/11/1922:
Exelmans – Trocadéro |
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13/07/1913:
La Motte Picquet Grenelle – Beaugrenelle (now Charles Michels)
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28/04/1935:
Châtelet – Porte des Lilas |
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05/11/1910:
Porte de Versailles – Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
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26/02/1911:
Saint-Lazare – Porte de Saint-Ouen At Liège platforms are not opposite each other, and at La Fourche the trains coming from St.Denis stop on the lower level. Line 13 was planned to be further extended from Asnières-Gennevilliers Les Courtilles to Port de Gennevilliers.
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Finally in the 1990's Paris started to build a new metro line, the so-called METEOR (Métro Est Ouest Rapide) although from the day of inauguration (15/Oct/1998) it is called ligne 14. This line is meant to alleviate ligne 1 and RER ligne A in the central area and starts at Maison Blanche in the south, then runs parallel to ligne 1 and A between Gare de Lyon and Châtelet-les Halles and finally turns north to St. Lazare from where it will be connected to the western branch (Gabriel Péri) of ligne 13. After some years of delay the first stretch from Bibliothèque F. Mitterrand (planned as Tolbiac-Masséna) to Madeleine was finally opened in October 1998. In summer 1998 construction work for the second section to St. Lazare started, which was finished in Dec. 2003. In autumn 2000, construction of a small workshop began, which was necessary to rebuild the original workshop into Olympiades station that was finally completed in June 2007. Ligne 14 was initially planned to be extended north to Place de Clichy and La Fourche and connected to one of the northern branches of ligne 13, but eventually it was extended on a completely new route to Mairie de Saint-Ouen (RER C) via Porte de Clichy (Ligne 13). 15/10/1998:
Madeleine – Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
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The construcion of the Grand Paris Express network is underway, a system of circular and tangential metro lines around Paris proper: Line 15 - a sort of orbital line with a handle in the east, with the southern section between Pont de Sèvres (M9) to Noisy Champs to be built first. Later, a western extension will continue to La Défense an the new hub at Saint-Denis Pleyel near the current RER station on line D. The eastern leg of this line will parallel the existing RER E route between Rosny-Bois-Perrier and Nogent Le Perreux and terminate at Champigny (Pont de Sèvres - Champigny > 2024). Line 16 - from Saint-Denis Pleyel to Noisy Champs via Sevran Beaudottes and Sevran Livry, both on RER line B. Line 17 - will also start at Saint-Denis Pleyel and share tracks with line 16 up to Le Bourget before heading northeast towards Charles-de-Gaulle Airport and eventually to Le Mesnil Amelot. Line 18 - less defined, it would serve the southwestern outskirts between Versailles and Orly. Details and progress of all these projects can be found at Societé du Grand Paris! |
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After World War II actually only metro extensions outside the city limits were built (apart from St.Lazare - Invalides). In the 70's and 80's special emphasis was put on the RER System (Regional Express Network) which currently consists of five lines (A, B, C, D, E) crossing the city underground (line C only partly) and connecting formerly existing suburban rail lines. This network is operated jointly by RATP (Métro and buses) and SNCF (French National Railways). The last of these lines, which was formerly referred to as EOLE, now ligne E, opened in July 1999 between St. Lazare and Magenta. On 3 Dec 2000, a new station was opened on Line C at Bibliothèque François Mitterrand to provide transfer to Line 14. This new station replaces the former Masséna station.
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Besides its dense metro system and extensive RER network, Paris now has several tram lines which, however, do not form a proper network, but each line operates separately and has its own characteristics, though all share the standard gauge of 1435 mm. Click here for more details. |
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U-Bahn, S-Bahn & Tram in ParisThe French capital has much more to offer to urban rail enthusiasts than the world-famous "Métro", which is currently being expanded on a large scale in the outer areas of the Paris conurbation. Known as "RER", frequent cross-city trains run far beyond the city limits, a network complemented by a series of radial suburban lines classified as "Transilien". In addition, there are now 11 tram lines, some of them isolated from each other, including two "Tram-Train" routes operated by SNCF, and two "Translohr" lines, which feature trams on rubber tyres. The transport scene is rounded off by two VAL systems, i.e. driverless small-profile metros that connect the two major airports. In this book, author Christoph Groneck presents every means of urban rail transport, giving an overview of the respective history of each system and the vehicles used. At the end of the book, the reader will find detailed maps in the form of an atlas of the entire metropolitan area of Paris, which is home to some 10 million people.160
pages, 17x24 cm, approx. 300 colour images, network maps, text Deutsch/English More info here! |
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Christoph Groneck: METROS IN FRANKREICH / METROS IN FRANCE. Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen & Laon. - Aug. 2006, Robert Schwandl Verlag, ISBN 3 936573 13 1 (More info) Mark
Ovenden: Paris Metro Style: In Map and Station
Design Arnold Delaney: PARIS BY METRO. An Underground History. - 2006, 100 p., Interlink Publishing Group, ISBN 1566566460 - explains origin of all station names with several colour photos Larry Yust: METRO. - Oct. 2004. 136 p., Gingko Press, ISBN: 1584231742 Spectacular photos of Paris metro stations
Jean-Pierre Rigouard: Le Métro de Paris. Tome 2: Les lignes complémentaires (Lignes 7 - 13). - Feb. 2003, 128 pages, Alan Sutton; Collection : memoire en images, ISBN 2842538471 Jean-Pierre Rigouard: Le Métro de Paris. Tome 1: Les premières lignes.- 2002, 128 pages, Alan Sutton ISBN 2842537777 Gaston Jacobs: Le métro de Paris. Un siècle de matériel roulant. - 2001, 223p. La Vie du rail , ISBN 2902808976 Gérard Rolland: Stations de métro Le dictionnaire des 366 stations. - Christine Bonneton Éditeur, Paris, 2003 (new edition). - Explains origin of station names. Jean-Paul Carminati: Dictionnaire imaginaire des stations de métro Clive Lamming: Paris Ferroviaire. - 2002, Parigramme, ISBN 2840962926 Clive Lamming: Paris Tram. - 2003, Parigramme, ISBN 2840961962 Jean Orselli: Les nouveaux tramways: Comment ne pas rater son tram. - 2004, Paradigme, Collection: Transports et communication, 268 p., ISBN 2868782388 Christoph Groneck: Neue Straßenbahnen in Frankreich. - 2003, 167p., Ek-Verlag, ISBN 388255844X Plotkin, Susan L.: The Paris Metro - A Ticket to French History. - ISBN 0738852473, April 2001 Roland,
Gérard: PARIS METRO RETRO
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Bonneton, 2001. ISBN 2862532797 Hardy, Brian: PARIS METRO HANDBOOK. - Capital Transport, new 1999 edition. Lamming, Clive: MÉTRO INSOLITE. - Parigramme, Paris, 176 p., many photos (March 2001). ISBN 2840961903 Various:
Le kiosque des noctambules, une oeuvre de Jean Michel Othoniel.
Chansons Metropolitains. (CD) - 48 songs from 1900-2000 related with the Métro (leaflet included). Feb. 2001 Jean Tricoire: Un Siècle de Métro en 14 Lignes - Best book on Paris Metro Jean Tricoire: Le métro de Paris: 1899-1911 : images de la construction Game/Michaud: Métro histoires illustrees des stations Satoshi Kako: Les travaux du métro Sheila Hallsted-Baumert, a.o.: Métro-cité : le chemin de fer métropolitain à la conquête de Paris, 1871-1945 Jean-Claude Demory: Le métro de chez nous Berton, Claude and Alexandre Ossadzow: FULGENCE BIENVENÜE et la construction du Métropolitain de Paris. - Presses de l'école nationale des Ponts et chaussées, Paris, 1998. Bruno Latour: ARAMIS ou l'amour des techniques. - La Decouverte (Textes a l App); ISBN 2707121207. Explains a former MATRA project of a small automatic metro tested in Paris in the 1980's.
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Transilien - SNCF Suburban Rail in Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Mobilités (ex STIF) AMATUIR.org (Association pour le Musée des Transports Urbains, Interurbains et Ruraux) incl. large metrpo history section Societé du Grand Paris (Grand Paris Express Metro Expansion) Paris Metro at Wikipedia and Wikipedia.fr SymBioz - Transport en Commun à Paris Carto.metro - Fantastic track maps, for Métro, RER and Tram A Railfan's Guide to the Paris Métro by David Pierman Paris Metro Pictures on Railfan Europe Metrorama Photos panoramiques du métro de Paris All Guimard station entrances at Paris Inconnu Richard Whittaker's Métro Experience with many photos Paris Unplugged - Curiosities about the Métro View 1952 network
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See the complete UrbanRail.Net Paris Métro & Tram Map!
2004 © UrbanRail.Net by Robert Schwandl.
Paris,
the capital of France (2.2 million inh., 6.7 million n Greater Paris and
10.8 million in Ile-de-France), is one of Europe's metro flagships. After
London (1863), Glasgow and Budapest (both 1896) this is the continent's
fourth oldest metro system and probably the densest. 
- Nov. 2008, Capital Transport, London, ISBN
978-1854143228 - Great books with hundreds of original
maps and loads of photos.
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Descouturelle, A. Mignard, M. Rodriguez: Le Métropolitain d'Hector
Guimard . -
Oct. 2003, 152 p., Somogy, ISBN 2850566691