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The city commissioned renowned engineer Jean-Baptiste Berlier, who designed Paris' postal network of pneumatic tubes, to design and plan its rail system in the early 1890s. [23] Berlier recommended a special track gauge of 1,300 mm ( 4 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 16 in ) (versus the standard gauge of 1,435 mm or 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) to protect the system ...
Paris Métro Line 19 is a new line of the Paris Métro that is planned as an expansion of Grand Paris Express.Officially announced on 22 November 2023, it is planned to connect ‹See TfM› Nanterre–La Folie at the west of La Défense business district to Charles de Gaulle Airport and the new area to be developed at Triangle de Gonesse []. [1]
The following is a list of all stations of the Paris Métro. As of the end of June 2024, there are a total of 320 stations on 16 different lines. Introductory notes
The embryonic (and as yet unnamed) RER was not properly conceived until the 1965 Schéma directeur d'aménagement et d'urbanisme (roughly: "master plan for urban development"), which envisioned an H-shaped network with two north-south routes. [14] Between 1969 and 1970, RATP purchased the Vincennes and Saint-Germain lines from SNCF, as the ...
Le métro de Paris – 1899 – 1911 : images de la construction [The metro of Paris – 1899–1911: pictures from the building site] (in French). Paris: Paris Musées. ISBN 2-87900-481-0. Zuber, Henri (1996). Le patrimoine de la RATP [The Patrimony of the RATP] (in French). éditions Flohic. ISBN 2-84234-007-8.
Paris Métro Line 14 (French: Ligne 14 du métro de Paris) is one of the sixteen lines on the Paris Métro.It connects ‹See TfM› Saint-Denis–Pleyel and Aéroport d'Orly on a north-west south-east diagonal via the three major stations of Gare Saint-Lazare, the Châtelet–Les-Halles complex, and Gare de Lyon.
As connecting the Paris railway stations was an objective for the Métro, an initial plan was to then run the southern circulaire from Place d'Italie to Gare d'Austerlitz, to Gare de Lyon, and from there operate along Line 1 to close the loop at Nation. But it was later decided to merge Line 2 Sud with Line 5, which was done in October 1907.
Paris Métro Line 15 is one of four new lines of Grand Paris Express, a major expansion project of the Paris Métro. Currently under construction, the line will provide a new orbital route through the suburbs of Paris, servicing the departments of Hauts-de-Seine , Val-de-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis . [ 1 ]