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The width of the carriages, 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in), is narrower than that of newer French systems (such as the 2.9-metre or 9-foot-6-inch carriages in Lyon) [37] [38] and trains on Lines 1, 4 and 14 have capacities of 600–700 passengers; this is as compared with 2,600 on the Altéo MI 2N trains of RER A. The City of Paris deliberately chose ...
English: Geographically accurate Paris metro map in 2011. ... Contrairement au plan de la RATP (et à la plupart des autres plans), chaque station est placée à sa ...
Stations are often named after a square or a street, which, in turn, is named for something or someone else. A number of stations, such as Avron or Vaugirard, are named after Paris neighbourhoods (though not necessarily located in them), whose names, in turn, usually go back to former villages or hamlets that have long since been incorporated into the city of Paris.
The SDAURP (Schéma directeur d'aménagement et d'urbanisme de la région parisienne, "Master plan for development and urban planning of the Paris region"), published in 1965 under the leadership of Prefect Paul Delouvrier, provided for the creation of a large-gauge regional rail transport network on the scale of the urban area.
Passy (French: ⓘ) is an above-ground station on Line 6 of the Paris Métro in the 16th arrondissement. The station and its approaches have notable views, as it is built on a viaduct that abuts the slope of the 25 meter high Chaillot hill just below its crest. Eastbound trains exit the station onto the Pont de Bir-Hakim bridge over the Seine ...
République (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a station on lines 3, 5, 8, 9 and 11 of the Paris Métro. It is located under the Place de la République, at the tripoint border of the 3rd, 10th and 11th arrondissements. It is an important interchange station; its 16.6 million users (2019) make it the seventh busiest out of 302 on the Métro network.
The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system.
Châtelet station (French pronunciation:) is a station of the Paris Métro and Île-de-France's RER commuter rail service, located in the centre of medieval Paris, on the border between the 1st and 4th arrondissements. It serves RER A, B and D, as well as lines 1, 4, 7, 11, and 14 of the Paris Métro; it is the southern terminus of Line 11.