Tolbiac () is a
station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture
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of the
Paris Métro
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. It is at the crossroads of two main roads, the ''Avenue d'Italie'' and the ''Rue de Tolbiac''. It is near the ''Asian Quarter'' and the ''Parc de Choisy''.
Location
The station is located under
Avenue d'Italie, north of the intersection with Rue de Tolbiac. Oriented approximately along a north-south axis, it is located between the ''Place d'Italie'' and ''Maison Blanche'' stations, the latter marking the end of the common line before it branches to ''Mairie d'Ivry'' and ''Villejuif-Louis Aragon''.
History
''Tolbiac'' opened as part of a planned section of
Line 7, which was temporarily operated as part of
Line 10 until the completion of the under-
Seine
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crossing of line 7 from
Pont de Sully
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In reality two separate bridges, carrying the Boulevard Henri IV, meet on the eastern tip of the Île Saint-Louis in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The northern ...
to
Place Monge. On 7 March 1930 the line was extended from
Place d'Italie
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* Boulevard Vincent-Aur ...
to
Porte de Choisy, including ''Tolbiac''. The station was integrated into line 7 on 26 April 1931. It is named after the ''Rue de Tolbiac''.
Tolbiac was the site of a
battle
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near
Cologne
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, where the
Franks
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under
Clovis I
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beat the
Alamanni
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on the Upper Rhine River during the first millennium. First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Roman emperor Caracalla of 213 CE, the Alemanni c ...
in 496.
As part of RATP's ''Renouveau du métro '' program, the station corridors and platform lighting were renovated by 29 June 29, 2005. It saw 3,191,066 travellers enter in 2019, which places it at the 157th position of metro stations for its attendance.
Passenger services
Access
The station has four entries divided into seven metro entrances, each with a Dervaux-type balustrade and leading to Avenue d'Italie:
* Entrance 1: ''Rue de Tolbiac'', made up of two fixed staircases established back-to-back, one of which is adorned with a Dervaux candelabra, located to the right of no. 76 Rue de Tolbiac;
* Entrance 2: ''Avenue d'Italie'', an escalator going up allowing only the exit from the platform in the direction of Mairie d'Ivry and Villejuif-Louis Aragon, located opposite no. 72 Avenue d'Italie;
* Entrance 3: ''Rue Toussaint-Féron'', comprising two fixed back-to-back staircases, one of which has a Dervaux mast, leading to the right of numbers 55 and 57 on the avenue;
* Entrance 4: ''Rue de la Maison-Blanche'', also made up of two fixed back-to-back staircases, one of which has a Dervaux totem, located opposite numbers 61 and 63 on the avenue.
Station layout
Platforms
Tolbiac is a standard configuration station. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the vault is elliptical. The decoration is of the style used for the majority of metro stations. The lighting canopies are white and rounded in the ''Gaudin'' style of the ''renouveau du métro des années 2000'', and the bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the upright walls, the vault and the tunnel exits. The advertising frames are in honey-coloured
faience
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and the name of the station is also in faience in the style of the original
CMP. The ''Motte'' style seats are red.
Bus connections
The station is served by lines 47 and 62 and by the urban service ''La Traverse Bièvre Montsouris'' of the
RATP Bus Network.
Nearby
* Quartier Asiatique
*
Parc de Choisy
*
Lycée Claude-Monet
The lycée Claude-Monet is a French public educational institution established in 1955. It consists of college, high school, and preparatory classes. It is located at 1, rue du Docteur-Magnan, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris close to the Quart ...
References
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Paris Métro stations in the 13th arrondissement of Paris
Railway stations in France opened in 1930