Wagram () is a
station
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on
Line 3 of the
Paris Métro located in the
17th arrondissement of Paris
The 17th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ''le dix-septième'' (; "the seventeenth").
The arrondissement, known as Batignoll ...
. Alphabetically, the station is the last on the Paris Métro system.
Location
The station is located under Avenue de Villiers, between
Avenue de Wagram and Rue Jouffroy-d'Abbans. Oriented approximately along an east–west axis, it lies between Pereire and Malesherbes stations.
History
''Wagram'' was opened on 23 May 1910 when the line was extended from
Villiers to
Pereire
Émile Pereire (3 December 1800, Bordeaux - 5 January 1875, Paris) and his brother Isaac Pereire (25 November 1806, Bordeaux – 12 July 1880, Gretz-Armainvilliers) were major figures in the development of France's finance and infrastructure durin ...
. The station is named after the
Avenue de Wagram, which was named after the
Battle of Wagram, where
Napoléon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
defeated the
Archduke Charles of Austria in 1809 in the
Austrian town of
Deutsch-Wagram near
Vienna.
From the 1960s, the platforms walls were modernized with the installation of a metallic bodywork with blue painted surrounds. This technique is then widely used in the network stopping points as an inexpensive way to modernize them quickly.
As part of the RATP's ''Renouveau du métro'' program, the station's corridors were renovated in the course of the 2000s.
In 2018, 2,565,333 travelers entered this station.
Passenger services
Access
The station has two entrances:
* Entrance 1: Place Monseigneur-Loutil, consisting of a fixed staircase adorned with a
Guimard entrance registered as a historic monument (decree of 12 February 2016),
leading to the corner formed by Rue Brémontier (at No. 72) and Avenue de Villiers (near No. 1);
* Entrance 2: Avenue de Villiers, consisting of an
escalator allowing only an exit from the platform in the direction of Pont de Levallois - Bécon, located opposite no. 74 of this avenue.
Station layout
Platforms
Wagram is a standard configuration station. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the arch is elliptical. Since the 1950s, the walls have been cladded in metal bodywork with blue horizontal uprights and golden, illuminated advertising frames, complemented by blue ''Motte'' style seats. The bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the side walls, the tunnel exits and the outlets of the corridors. The vault is painted white, and lighting is provided by independent fluorescent tubes. The name of the station is written in
Parisine font on enamelled plates incorporated into the bodywork.
Bus connections
The station is served by lines 31 and 93 of the
RATP Bus Network, as well as, at night, by lines N16 and N52 of the
Noctilien network.
Nearby
* Église Saint-François-de-Sales de Paris
Gallery
File:Wagram-quai2.jpg, Line 3 platforms at Wagram
File:Wagram-ramepart.jpg, MF 67 rolling stock on Line 3 at Wagram
References
*Roland, Gérard (2003). ''Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram.'' Éditions Bonneton.
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Paris Métro stations in the 17th arrondissement of Paris
Railway stations in France opened in 1911