Facts and Figures

Operator RATP
System Type Metro
Year Opened 1900
# of Lines 14 + 2 branches
# of Cars 700 trains
Mileage 214 km
Gauge Std
Stations 302
Power 3rd Rail
Data Date 2020
1st Visit 11/99
Last Visit 10/2019
% Rode 70%

French Transit > Paris
Metro

Paris

The 14 Line Paris Metro is a wonderful system. The Metropolitan turned 100 years old in 2000. The system is well laid out, with one never more then 500 yards from a metro entrance in center city. The station and tunnels are unique in the metro world. The lines have two track vaulted tunnels with no center columns. Most of the stations mimic the tunnels with side platforms with no supporting beams. This makes for easy photography (during non-rush hours). 

Paris is the first city to introduce rubber tired metros on Line 11. Later lines 1,4 and 6 were converted to rubber tires. With the rubber tires, the trains are quiet on curves and accelerate and brake quicker then steel rail lines. However steel rails are still there and the trains still have steel wheels on each truck. The steel is used for turnouts and just in case a tire blows out.

Line Listing (P=Rubber Tires, F=Steel Wheel)

Line 1 (P)

Line 2 (F)

Line 3 (F)

Line3b (F)

Line 4 (P)

Line 5 (F)

Line 6 (P)

Line 7 (F)

Line7b (F)

Line 8 (F)

Line 9 (F)

Line 10 (F)

Line 11 (P)

Line 12 (F)

Line13 (F)

Line 14 (P)
Station listing in Alphabetical Order
NEW Station Name Routes Transfers # of 
Photos
New Photos
Arts Et Metiers   14 14
Barbes Rochechouart   14 14
Basilique St. Denis T1 1 1
Bastille   11 4
  Bel Air   3  
Bercy 10 10
Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand 6 4
Bir Hakeim 15 10
Charles De Gaulle - Etoile 5
Chatelet 11 9
  Chausee d'Antin La Fayette   6  
Cite   13 10
Concorde 14 8
  Corentin Cariou   4 4
Cour Saint Emilion   4 4
Daumesnil   5 5
  Dupleix   2  
Duroc   10 10
  Esplande de la Defense   2  
  Faidherbe Chalingny   2  
Franklin Delano Roosevelt   14 8
Gaite   6 6
  Gambetta   8  
Gare d'Austerlitz

14 7
Gare de Nord , TGV, Eurostar 4 4
Gare L'Est   16 8
Gare de Lyon TGV 8 7
Hotel De Ville 7 7
  Jules Joffrin   1  
La Chapelle , TGV, Eurostar 8 8
La Courneuve - 8 Mai 1945   2 2
  La Defense   1  
La Motte Picque Grenelle   4 4
  Leige   14  
  Louis Blanc   5  
Lourve-Rivoli   10 10
  Madeleine   3  
  Marcel Sembat   4  
  Michel-Ange Molitor (east only)   5  
  Mirabeau (east only)   8  
  Miromensnil   1  
Montparnasse- Bienvenue , TGV 9 9
Nation 6 5
  Palais Royal - Louvre   2  
Passy   2 2
  Pigalle   7  
  Place de Clichy   5  
Place d'Italie   6 6
  Place Fetes   5  
  Pont de Sevres 5  
Pont Neuf   18 18
  Porte d'Italie 1  
Porte des Lilas 3
Porte Doree T3a 4 4
  Porte Duaphine 7  
  Porte de St Cloud   7  
  Porte de Versailles 2  
Pyramides   7 2
  Republique   5  
  Saint-Lazare 5  
Saint Michel 10 10
Sevres Babylone   10 10
Tocadero 6
  Tuileries   21  
  Vaneau   1  
Varenne   4 4
Miscelleanous     13 2
 

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