Okay, I said yesterday that I was going to take a look at the Wikipedia article on the Paris Metro. Just for fun I’ve derived some questions from the article. I can’t say whether any of them will actually feature, but I’ll be interested to see. Here they are -
How many stations – 361
How many lines – 16
Fully automated lines? – 1,4,14
Operated by? - Régie autonome des transports parisiens (RATP),
When did it open? - 19 July 1900, during the World's Fair (Exposition Universelle)
First journey? - Porte de Vincennes to Porte Maillot
Originally how many stations opened on first day? 8
Original operating company - Compagnie du chemin
de fer métropolitain de Paris
Operating company was part of which group? – Empain group
Name was inspired by? – London Metropolitan Railway
First person to propose an urban railway in Paris? - Florence
de Kérizouet.
De Kerizouet’s plan would have used what? – Cable driven
cars
In 1855 who made the first proposal for an underground
railway in Paris - Edouard Brame and Eugène
Flachat
Who did the city commission to plan and design its railway
in the 1890s - Jean-Baptiste Berlier,
Whose eponymous project was adopted to limit the Metro and
prevent it from extending into outer suburbs - Jean-Baptiste Berlier,
Original plan was for how many lines? – 9
When did construction begin?- November 1898
Who designed the original station entrances – Hector Guimard
How many original station entrances still exist? – 86
Which construction method was originally used? – Cut and
Cover
In 1906 which planned line was merged with line 5? Line 2
south
A planned circular section of the metro was abandoned in
1923 after the section between Invalides and which station was completer? -Boulevard
St. Germain
In 31 January 1904 which company were awarded the second
underground railway concession in Paris - Société du chemin de fer
électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris
How many lines were built by Nord – Sud? – 3
In which year did CMP buy out the bankrupt Nord – Sud company
?- 1930
When was the last Nord-Sud train set decommissioned? – 155th
May 1972
Which new line replaced the saturated Belleville funicular
Railway ? – 11
Which line, the first to leave the city proper, was
extended to Boulogne Billancourt in 1934? – Line 9
With which company did CMP merge on 23rd March
1948 to form RATP? – STCRP ( buses and tramways)
What was the designation of the prototype train testing
rubber tyre wheels and automated systems? – MP31
In the sixties, what was created to combat the
unprofitability of building extensions to the network? - Réseau Express Régional (regional
express network; RER).
In which year were Ligne A and Ligne B of the RER
inaugurated? – 1977
During construction what was the unofficial designation of
what became line 14 in October 1998? (Meteor)
In 1903 what was the cause of the Couronnes Disaster? –
Short Circuit
What became mandatory following the disaster – Carriages had
to be made of steel
8 February 1962 incident in which 9 were killed? - Charonne subway massacre
30 August 2000 24 passengers injured through train derailed
when going too fast around what? – Notre Dame de Lorette hairpin
From the end of the 1960s an unpopular new style was rolled
out in around 20 stations. It was named after the first station to be
converted. Which was this? - Mouton-Duvernet
Replicas of Metro station canopies can be found in several
cities. In which city is Square-Victoria-OACI station,
with the only original canopy located outside France? (Montreal)
Which symbol was adopted in the mid 70s to warn children of
the danger of getting hands trapped in moving doors? – rabbit
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