Porte Maillot station

Porte Maillot (French pronunciation: [pɔʁt majo]) is a station on Paris Métro Line 1. It is connected to the station Neuilly–Porte Maillot on the RER C and RER E, as well as a stop of tramway line T3b. The station in its current form opened in 1937, replacing the original Porte Maillot station that opened in 1900 as the original terminus of Line 1. It serves the Palais des Congrès and has exits towards Neuilly-sur-Seine. It is located close to the Bois de Boulogne.

Porte Maillot Palais des Congrès
Line 1 platforms
General information
Location	23/27, av. Charles de Gaulle 80, av. de la Grande Armée 87, av. de la Grande Armée Place Maillot 16, place de Verdun 16th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°52′41″N 2°16′55″E
Operated by	RATP
Connections
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	19 July 1900; 124 years ago (1900-07-19)
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Les Sablons towards La Défense Line 1 Argentine towards Château de Vincennes Connections to other stations Preceding station RER Following station Pereire–Levallois towards Pontoise RER C transfer at Neuilly–Porte Maillot Avenue Foch towards Massy-Palaiseau or Dourdan-la-Forêt La Défense towards Nanterre–La Folie RER E transfer at Neuilly–Porte Maillot Haussmann–Saint-Lazare towards Chelles–Gournay or Tournan
Location Porte Maillot Palais des Congrès Location within Paris

History

The first station called "Porte Maillot" opened in 1900 and was the terminus of Line 1, and was therefore a loop, allowing trains to turn around without reversing. Like Porte Dauphine and Porte de Vincennes, it was arranged with a central waiting area and tracks on either side, with two tunnels.

When Line 1 was extended to the west to Pont de Neuilly in 1937, the station needed to be replaced as it was at the same depth as the tunnels of the railway line today served by the RER C. Thus, the tunnel of the Line 1 extension descends and passes under the old loop, and then reaches the new station at a distance of approximately 100 meters from the old station.^[1] The platforms of the new station were built 105 metres long to accommodate 7-car trains in the future, a plan which has never been realised.^[2]

In 1992, the old station was turned into a reception area by the RATP called the "Espace Maillot". It was again transformed in 1997 into a maintenance facility for the new MP 05 rolling stock.

In 1988, the RER C started serving the Neuilly – Porte Maillot station of the RER C. In 2024, an extension of RER E from Haussmann–Saint-Lazare to La Défense opened with a new underground station at Neuilly – Porte Maillot. The metro station is connected to the RER E station via an underground corridor, from where the RER C station can be reached via another corridor.

Passenger services

Access

• Access 1 - Palais des Congrès
• Access 2 - Boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
• Access 3 - Place de la Porte-Maillot
• Access 4 - Avenue de la Grande-Armée
• Access 5 - Avenue de Malakoff
• Access 6 - Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle
• Access 7 - Rue de Chartres

Station layout

Street Level

B1	Mezzanine for platform connection

B2 Platforms	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right
	Westbound	← toward La Défense – Grande Arche (Les Sablons)
	Westbound siding	← toward La Défense – Grande Arche (No regular service)
	Side platform with PSDs, no regular service
	Side platform with PSDs, no regular service
	Eastbound siding	→ toward Château de Vincennes (No regular service)
	Eastbound	→ toward Château de Vincennes (Argentine)
	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right

Platforms

The current station is made up of two parallel stations, each of standard configuration with two platforms separated by the metro tracks under an elliptical arch. The trains run on the outer tracks, the others being used as termini or garages. The decoration is in the style used for the majority of metro stations. The lighting canopies are white and rounded in the Gaudin style of the metro revival of the 2000s (with the exception of one on the south platform of the north station), and the bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the walls, the vault, and the tunnel exits. The advertising frames are made of brown ceramic and the name of the station is inscribed in the metro's font, Parisine, on enamelled plaques. The platforms are equipped with yellow Akiko seats, and are fully equipped with screen doors, as is the north platform of the south station (the fourth platform, bordered by a dead-end track on the east side, has façade modules only at the ends, on the spaces not covered by the trains that are parked there).

Other connections

The station is served by bus lines 73, 82, PC, 244 and 274 (remotely, from the Porte des Ternes stop) of the RATP Bus Network and by lines N11, N24, N151 and N153 of the Noctilien night bus service. In addition, it is at the origin of a bus link to Beauvais-Tillé Airport.

Gallery

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  Automatic platform gates at Porte Maillot
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  Installation of gates in November 2008
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  Platform Signage, exit and interchange signs

References

1. "Porte Maillot (voie 1) Ligne 1". Metrorama [French]. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
2. Hardy, B. Paris Metro Handbook, 3rd edition, Capital Transport Publishing, 1999.