Paris Metro Line 1
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Paris Metro Line 1 is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Metro. It connects La Défense in the northwest and Château de Vincennes in the southeast. With a length of 16.5 km, it constitutes an import
MP 05 train crossing the Pont de Neuilly
Construction work on Line 1's Palais Royal station on Rue de Rivoli. Photograph by Eugène Trutat kept at the Muséum de Toulouse.
Line 1 at Bastille, in 1903. The train is hauled by a “Thomson-double” railcar.
The generators of the CMP Bercy power station, commissioned in March 1901.
MP 05
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The MP 05 is a rubber-tyred electric multiple unit with driverless operation ordered by the RATP in 2005 for the Paris Metro. The original 49 units were designed to allow the older MP 89s on line 1 to
Paris Metro Line 1
…from manually driven operation to fully automated operation. Conversion, which commenced in 2007 and was completed in 2011, included new rolling stock (MP 05) and laying of platform edge doors in all stations. The first eight MP 05 trains (501 through 508) went into passenger service on 3 November 2011…
Interior of an MP 05 train
Interior arrangement of a new MP 05 train.
The bogie of an MP 05, showing the flanged steel wheel inside the rubber tired one, as well as the vertical contact shoe on top of the steel rail.