The Paris Métro station where the trains DON'T stop - Mirabeau Explained

[@MindTheMap]

Being a German making an English language video and trying to pronounce all the French words correctly... this video has been my biggest challenge to date. I look forward to your comments & you can join our small Urbanism, Planning and Transit community by hitting the sub button! -Lukas

[@gruweldaad]

The more Paris videos the better! Make a video about why Opéra smells so bad!

[@MindTheMap]

@@gruweldaad Very random but I'm intrigued & I love Paris. Do you know why Opéra smells so bad?

[@gruweldaad]

@@MindTheMap I heard that it’s because the confluence of the Parisian sewer system is under the station, which also is supposed to explain why there’s a giant reservoir under the Palais Garnier opera house which was the inspiration for Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera.

[@KyrilPG]

The much simpler explanation is that a lot of the ground under Paris is filled with lines and layers of gypsum and sulfurs. And when infiltration or simply aquifer water comes into contact with these minerals, it stinks. The stench is typical of sulfur : rotten eggs. And it's not specifically Opéra metro station that stinks like that or the most, but the Auber RER A station next-door connected to Opéra as part of the gigantic Opéra - Auber - Haussmann - Saint-Lazare underground complex. The Auber RER A station went directly through the gypsum and sulfur layer and is a huge cavity, so the smell, riding on the wind, tends to invade Opéra metro station. If it was sewer infiltration it would a lot more problematic...

[@smb6995]

Great job! I see this is a new for you and I really like this new format of small explainers of odd rail infrastructure. Keep it up and good luck!

[@styfauly2115]

Fun fact, Eglise d'auteil might not be the least used station in Paris as the data that shows it being last only counts people entering the station (wich is logical since it is way easier to count) but the station sees a lot of people getting of the train due to it being the place where a lot of people coming from the center of Paris get off but where nearly nobody gets on since it serves only a few stations to the west.

[@MindTheMap]

True!

[@MansehejSingh]

Makes a lot of sense. I assume we could technically consider the stations of Mirabeau and Eglise d'auteuil the same, where the number of people entering Mirabeau and the number of people exiting Eglise d'auteuil would be a good indicator of the number of people using this "station-pair".

[@val-schaeffer1117]

Why do you think that the stats count people boarding at Eglise d'auteil (i.e. ticket purchased Eglise d'auteil onwards) and not people disembarking at Eglise d'auteil?

[@styfauly2115]

@@val-schaeffer1117 it's not that I think it is done that way it's that it's the way the ratp counts the amount of people using the station

[@obj_in_motion]

​@@val-schaeffer1117 There is no way to accurately track disembarkations in Paris, because you do not tap your card or swipe your ticket when you exit a station.

[@KyrilPG]

Ahhh ! My childhood station ! The building I grew up in is right under the metro M logo at 0:18 , I lived 12 years there. We could feel the metro passing under the street from the flat and when I was a kid I loved to imagine the train taking off at the end of the climbing ramp, like an angled launch. I just loved this very special station and was so lucky to live right above it. Mirabeau is definitely one of the weirdest stations and certainly the most unique. As most people in the neighborhood, I departed from Mirabeau and returned via Église d'Auteuil. Église d'Auteuil station is presented as the least used station on the network but it is very debatable as RATP tends to only count entries and not exits, so this station being single direction, near the end of the line (on the served direction) and very close to Mirabeau serving the other direction, it has a *lot* less entries than exits. It's basically a half station mostly used as destination and not origin, so the vast majority of users are not counted. The Mirabeau and Église d'Auteuil station duo is a must see for any metro enthusiast visiting Paris ! The video was a great depiction of Mirabeau and its quicks. Pronunciation pedantry minute : The "gui" in Guimard is *not* pronounced "gwi" but "ggi". In French, the letter "g" is like a soft "j" in front of an "i" but like "gg" in front of a "u". So the "u" is silent and makes the pronunciation "ggimar" (the final "d", like almost all final consonant letters is also silent). Voilà ! ;-)

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you for your story and all the background info. I only spend about an hour in your old neighborhood but it seemed very beautiful to me. The thing about exits at Église d'Auteuil is a good point, if RATP were to only measure exits Mirabeau would probably rank quite low and Église d'Auteuil a lot higher. What I learned from this video is that I need to check pronunciation beforehand - I was way too confident in my Guimard and Auteil pronunciation :)

[@KyrilPG]

​@@MindTheMap You did a pretty good job ! It's Auteuil, there are 2 u's. And "au" is pronounced o, like you did. But "eu" is pronounced like you'd say "a" [door or something] or close to "œ" or "ö" or "ø" in some languages. Just add the "il" as you'd say an "eye". To help you, there's often a link to sound bites with recorded pronunciation on Wikipedia. But French is a a nightmare to learn and pronounce, so don't be hard on yourself, you did not butcher the names, just a very limited mispronounciation and that's no small feat ! :-D

[@alloallie]

I think the collab video Tim Traveler and Geoff Marshall did on Église d'Auteuil also touched a bit on Mirabeau. In a way, you can't discuss one without the other.

[@MindTheMap]

@@KyrilPG Thanks, Wikipedia audio recordings are very helpful, I have also found some videos that teach you how to specifically pronounce the names of some stations.

[@h8GW]

Makes me wonder why they don't count Mirabeau and Église d'Auteuil as a single station, passenger-wise.

[@drifty_9]

How does this channel only have 700 subscribers

[@patrickmartin3322]

It’s got 1,100 now only a day later Edit: 6 hours later and it’s now got 1,300

[@serenegrace2515]

I came for the same comment... So underated!

[@jamsbar7]

Because it has 1,300 as of 5:49am GST on June 13th, 2023

[@AdityaKantKushwaha]

Subs growth is really very good

[@mondkomalol6042]

Update it now has 1540 subs

[@GameBites27]

Of all the videos I have seen on Mirabeau this is my favourite

[@22817hm]

I visited this station in 2015 and have been wondering about it ever since. It's one of the most unique metro stations I've ever been to so it's nice to see this video on why it's like that.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

The Montreal entrance was made from pieces of demolished Guimard entrances and pieces reproduced from original molds. And actually, 86 are left, not 88. And there's more than one outside Paris! NYC has one at MoMA (the archway and sign from Raspail station). Washington, DC also has an authentic entrance that’s not a reproduction at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden! It was part of an Art Nouveau exhibition before being installed in 2003. It underwent a whole conservation treatment in 2008 because of the fact it's been outdoors for so long to the point it didn't bear any resemblance to its original appearance. Mexico City, Lisbon, Chicago, and Moscow have Guimard entrances gifted from Paris too but they're reproductions. Love the style of these entrances so much. It makes the Paris Metro stand out. The fact that they were designed that way because not only were his steel designs cheaper and easier to make but also to appeal to Parisians because Parisians were against the building of a Metro (because they didn't want an industrial look) makes me glad they opposed it because the city wouldn't have gotten such beautiful entrances.

[@MindTheMap]

Thanks Avery, Guimard Entrances have been a hot topic here in the comments (mainly how many are there truly and which ones are replicas) and I feel your comment does a great job of clarifying things!

[@KyrilPG]

Technically, it's not really important if entrances are replicas or originals as long as they are made of cast iron. RATP kept some of the molds and frequently produce new cast iron parts with these molds to repair existing entrances. So, the new parts are exactly the same as the old ones : same material (cast iron) from the same molds. This really blurs the lines between what's an original and what's a replica. Plus, when does an original becomes a reproduction? Several of the "original" ones have parts that were changed by newly cast ones during maintenance. Some molds were lost but they were able to reproduce them from existing parts, and the produced parts are exactly the same, indistinguishable from the original ones. The only difference between an "original" Guimard entrance and some reproduction could be the tainted glass bulbs and the electrical system for the light inside the bulb, but the rest is the same material with the same shape. Maybe the only real difference between an "original" and a "reproduction" is not physical but is that one actually served as an entrance in Paris while the other did not. Anyway, all cast iron pieces, whether they are original or reproduced have tiny differences as the cast iron process is messy and always requires touch-ups. Sadly it seems like the molds that were used for the most unique "édicules" like the Bastille "pagoda" were definitely lost and the cast iron pieces destroyed and unrecoverable. There was a Parigo episode (a weekly TV show about urban mobility on France 3 Paris Île-de-France) with a segment on the Guimard entrances and their maintenance. It showed the workshop where the pieces are cast, the molds and their sand molding / casting method. I'd love that if they could find a way to recreate the Bastille pagoda and Étoile pavillons. They could turn it into a tourist office adjacent to the metro entrance or a shed for much needed elevators. Especially because the Étoile pavillons included space for elevators that were never built. They wouldn't be perfect copies as they would be reproduced from a mix of drawings, existing parts and photos. It would have been great if some of the large new stations of the humongous Grand Paris Express expansion had some inspiration or at least a reference to the Guimard entrances. Like the cantilevered and wing shapes of the "libellule" (dragonfly) entrances with modern materials and techniques. The new stations are massive and almost all have different architectures so why not celebrate the beauty and heritage of art nouveau and Guimard entrances by including that legacy in some of them ? Or maybe just one new station fully in art nouveau Guimard style with modern materials and features... Sadly it seems none of them will have any reference or inspiration from art nouveau and Guimard. Though, I haven't seen the architecture of all the new stations yet, maybe there's a surprise but I wouldn't hold my breath. The stations' architectures of the East and West segments of M15 have not been fully revealed yet as far as I know, so maybe of of them ?

[@CoreyJetz]

I believe there are copies of this entrance at the Chicago Stations for Metra, Van Buren and Michigan definitely looks like MiraBeau

[@helderalmeida7847]

In Lisbon you have one of this Paris metro entrances, the Station is Picoas, and was offered by the RATP to the Metro de Lisboa company

[@DiogoStuart]

Came here to say this. :) And it’s very unique looking, that’s for sure. :D

[@strafrag1]

Those entrances are works of art themselves. Just so beautiful, classy and enjoyable to see. They are so PARIS.

[@massitandiarra8156]

Paris is pretty beautiful,sad that it have to be dirty and trash to live in.

[@OMM-bo9fr]

I love the sound of your voice. The way you say "Mirabeau" is perfect.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

makes sense, it’s common in other cities to have stations like that…my hometown of Boston has three stations very much like that: State p, Downtown Crossing, and Chinatown. State is most like it as the northbound track must travel under a centuries old and historically significant building while also dipping under a second, older subway line so the southbound trains pass feet away rising as you’re watching from the platform.

[@WhiteTiger333]

This popped up in my recommended. Fascinating! The artistic entryway is so wonderful, imo. And I love that the colors of the station tiles match the trains (or the other way around). Haha - at first, I guessed wrong. I thought the completely separated tracks was some kind of safety feature to keep people from accessing the track of a through train. But, of course, the actual reason was much more intriguing. The minds of engineers, eh? So creative!

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you! The design of the entrances and so many of the stations is absolutely stunning and there is loads of history behind the designs. Fun fact: Line 10 is the only line with white tiles inside the stations :)

[@robert.halpern]

Excellent video! Looks like youtube has started recommending it a lot more. This is a really fascinating station and you explained it clearly. Love the Google Earth footage as well. Their new studio app seems to be getting more and more popular in this urban documentary niche, I'm using it in a project as well.

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you Robert! I usually get most of my views from Search and Reddit but KZbin has been recommending this video like crazy (at least by my standards). Google Earth Studio is amazing, super easy to use and the results are very impressive. Good luck on your project!

[@jesusarturosolnavarro9956]

Bellas Artes Station in Mexico City has the same type of entrance. Was donated by the french goverment to Mexico City couple decades ago.

[@dailydoseofhampter1834]

What a Beautiful Explanation to Paris's Complex stations. When I saw the title I was immediately sold on watching this video. Thank you for this great video!! I would love to Visit Paris to ride their transit systems!

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you for your kind words! I hope you get to visit Paris (and the Métro system) soon!

[@robertw9651]

I've seen vids about this in the past but this is certainly the most informative. It also looks like a station that's well worth a visit in itself and probably one of the most quirky underground stations in the world.

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you! It is definitely worth a visit!

[@michelveraliot]

This channel is so underated it's a crime against humanity

[@miniaturesteamnick]

There is something beautiful about this video being about France, commentated in English by a German

[@abcxyz-e4c]

I used to live near by, it was very poetic to go trough without stopping.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau was one of the leading figures in the French Revolution. He was a member of the nobility, but after scandalous relationships with women ruined his reputation in the nobility, he was viewed as man of the people for withering his opponents in the court and crushed the opposing lawyer. Thus he became a revolutionary, but unlike others, he supported a constitutional monarchy based on the UK model. He had a close connection to Marie Antoinette. He predicted after the storming of the Bastille, that the intervention of armed mobs would turn the revolution violent. This reminds me a bit of how Berlin's S-Bahn and U-Bahn were during the Cold War. Ending freedom of movement didn't just mean building the wall, it also meant trains. There were three lines, the U-Bahn lines now designated U6 and U8, and the Nord-Süd Tunnel on the S-Bahn, that ran for the most part through West Berlin but passed for a short distance through the borough of Mitte (the historic city canter), which was East Berlin territory. These lines continued to be open to West Berliners, but they did not stop at East Berlin stations, though they still had to slow down and these stations were heavily guarded. Thus, these became ghost stations

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you for providing some insightful context! The second paragraph seems like a great video idea!

[@miloupe7232]

For a person whom lives in Paris and takes this station, I am impress how u ve made me watch a video on a station I thought so boring and normal

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you!

[@mariovieira838]

A little detail about the Guimard type decorative entrances; there's also one of the type in Lisbon, at Picoas station. It was donated as a gift

[@KyrilPG]

And there are a few others : One in Chicago, at Van Buren Street station. One in Mexico City, at Bellas Artès station. And one in Moscow, at Kievskaïa station. That's for the 5 Guimard entrances offered to other cities for their metro systems. There 2 more that are in museums : One is in New York's MoMA in the Rockfeller Sculpture Garden. The other one is in Washington DC, in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art. This one traveled the world as it was shown in London and Tokyo during an Art Nouveau expo tour. I'll finish by a fun fact : the Guimard entrance in Montmartre at Abbesses station may seem to fit perfectly with its surrounding but it's out of place, historically speaking. Abbesses station is on line M12, which in the early 20th century was line A, one of the two lines of the Nord Sud company. The Guimard entrances where created for the CMP company that built and operated all the other lines. So, during the post WW2 renovation and modernization of a CMP station (now regrouped with Nord Sud as the public RATP), Hôtel de Ville on M1 if I'm not mistaken, the Guimard entrance was dismantled, moved to Abbesses station and reassembled there.

[@MindTheMap]

@@KyrilPG Incredible level of research and detail, thank you!

[@ergosteur]

Last time I was in Paris I took line 10 from Boulogne to central Paris nearly every day and thought this was strange, but completely forgot to look into it in more detail. Thanks for this nice explanation I didn't know I wanted!

[@mattykeel]

I’ve never been to Paris, but living close-ish to London I’m fascinated by the tube. This video made me think about exploring what the Paris metro is like - and by the way, how do you not have way more subscribers?!

[@MindTheMap]

Exploring the Paris Métro is definitely worth it, I hope you get to do it one day! Thank you, this video took me from 650 subs to over 4.000 so you can imagine that I am pretty happy with the subcount right now :)

[@doctordeej]

Geoff Marshall and Jago Hazzard - you thought the London Underground had some strange set-ups!

[@jankrsnik]

I thought that surely this would be a channel with more subscribers, so when I heard that there was only 700 at the end of the video I was shocked. Amazing video, keep it up.

[@MindTheMap]

Thanks Jan, this video single-handedly doubled my subscribers which is absolutely insane...

[@Alohaseyolli]

There's actually one entrance designed by Hector Guimard in Mexico City's metro outside Bellas Artes station...

[@LadyAnuB]

This video is a great complement to Geoff Marshall's video on Église d'Auteuil

[@Kaali_khetra]

underrated channel

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you!

[@ianhelps3749]

Interesting to read that a few other Metro stations around the world have Guimard style entrances. On a related theme if you go to Wittenbergplatz U- bahn station in Berlin, one of the platforms has the station name in a London Underground roundel. It was given by London Transport to commemorate 50 years of the Berlin U Bahn

[@XR190190]

As a kid I took line 10 a lot in the early 2000s! I love this line!

[@hoonami139]

Great video, visiting Paris for the first time in a few weeks, looking forward to seeing this station in person

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you, hope you have a great time in Paris!

[@Subwayfan582]

I like the disign of the station at 2:15

[@FiwexGwendalavir]

I'm a parisian, living there for 20 years but I'm learning things from a fellow German. Thanks

[@MindTheMap]

Danke! Ich stelle es mir ziemlich traumhaft vor in Paris zu leben aber man gewöhnt sich wahrscheinlich dran :)

[@williamsandt7610]

I’m happy i found this channel. Keep it up

[@kellingc]

I didn't know anything about the Paris transit system. This was neat information. Thank you for posting it.

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you Chris!

[@metromaster2010]

Thank you for that detailed explanation. I have never visited Paris, and always wondered about this station. Now I get it.

[@MindTheMap]

Glad you liked the video, how did you know about Mirabeau?

[@metromaster2010]

@@MindTheMap KZbin videos

[@douglasgriffin694]

Love this! This is the first time I’ve subscribed to a KZbin channel with under 1000 subscribers! I’m excited to see how far you’ll grow!

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you!

[@lawrencejob]

I love this. The standard of video made me assume you had a huge channel! Good luck. Instantly subscribed.

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you Lawrence, welcome to our community!

[@ko_rubin]

And here we are, a new channel that makes content i like. Welcome on KZbin i think youll become famous now

[@rodrigotaveiralevy]

There's one Guimard station entrance also in Lisbon, Portugal. You can find it at one of the entrances to the Picoas station on the yellow line.

[@mmsmits2868]

Back in the 70s (when I lived in The Netherlands) we had a guest from Dijon, who brought us a board game named Jeu de Paris. The goal is to visit 6 metro stations before the other players, while constantly being sent in other directions and to other stations by "hazard" cards. I've never been on the Paris metro but through the game, I've travelled it many, many times.

[@MindTheMap]

That is a lovely memory! I just looked into it, it's a game from 1973 made by Mako and the board looks incredible, makes me want to play instantly.

[@mmsmits2868]

@@MindTheMap Since I'm in New York (upstate, not the city) now, my wife and I made a version ourselves of the NYC subway system. Not difficult to make your own.

[@MindTheMap]

You really do love that game :) Seems easy enough and I assume the rules can be found online!

[@Mainyehc]

Others have pointed out the Guimard entrance donated to Lisbon Metro as well, and also added more info on yet some other examples I didn’t even know of, thanks! Still, for anyone curious about ours and its context in the network, it was installed on one of Picoas station’s entrances, on what is still the lower section of the Yellow Line (soon to become part of the Green circle line), at 38°43'47.6"N 9°08'48.8"W.

[@MindTheMap]

Obrigado João!

[@alexj9603]

There is also one in Mexico City, at the "Bellas Artes" station.

[@debug9424]

There were many Guimard entrances given to other cities, but only the one gifted to Montréal is an original. During restoration in 2001, it was discovered that it had the only remaining original red globes (the Paris ones having all been smashed or otherwise broken). One is kept in in Montréal, the other has been gifted back to Paris. The RATP responded by gifting a supply of official tiles to Montréal, which can today be seen at that entrance.

[@gilpo]

Fun bit of trivia about that entrance, the building right next to it is the Lisbon Metro HQ.

[@eepynicky]

with the quality of the video i was surprised when you said your goal was 700 subs, this channel is definitely going to grow a lot! keep it up

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you, all of you have absolutely demolished my 700 sub goal!

[@RAILdocumenterON]

Very informational! 10/10 Keep it up, I subbed!

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you, welcome to our community!

[@raphaelpodselver21]

Excellent video, I know this station very well!

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you!

[@MonkeyBurrito]

You made me want to visit Mirabeau now! Definitely on my bucket list haha

[@MindTheMap]

That's a great Bucket List item! Hope you get to check it off one day :)

[@Ranakade]

Mirabeau station is the most fascinating trackwork ive ever seen. ❤️

[@jbponzi1]

Those new trains are beautiful. They are contemporary and have a distinct nod towards the older trains.

[@MindTheMap]

The design is beautiful but on line 10 they will be phased out for newer models in 2024!

[@KyrilPG]

Which trains ? The ones in the video running on line M10 ? They are the MF67 rolling stock ordered as the name implies in 1967. "MF67" stands for "Matériel Fer" (steel wheeled rolling stock), tender order of 1967. They were delivered between 1967 and 1978, the largest batches in 1968-1970 and 1973-1975. About 300 trains of this type were built and roughly 160 are reformed. About 140 MF67 trains are still being used on lines 3, 3bis, 10 and 12. So they are far from being new. Most were renovated between 2002 and 2006. They'll all be replaced by new MF19 trains produced by Alstom (Alstom-Bombardier) and introduced between 2024 and 2030 or 2032, possibly up to 2035. The last running MF67 train will be over 60 years old by the time it is reformed. The first MF19 firm batch order is for 44 trains, out of a framework order contract for 410 trains. Line M10 will be the first to be equipped with the new MF19 trains, so you better hurry if you want to catch a ride on the current trains climbing the Mirabeau ramp as they'll disappear from line 10 in 2024.

[@jbponzi1]

@@KyrilPG thank you for excellent history. They are still new to me. I have not been to Paris and still like the way they look.

[@KyrilPG]

@@jbponzi1 That's an excellent reason for a visit in Paris ! :-) All new trains since the late 1990's are fully walk-through with open gangways between cars. If train cars are like separated trailers, they are pre 1990's rolling stock. If you have a look on Paris metro trains, the "MF" ones are steel wheeled and the "MP" ones, standing for "Matériel Pneumatique", are the ones with tires. The number is the year the tender order is placed. All the older trains, both steel and tire wheeled, will be gone by the beginning of the next decade. So if you plan on visiting Paris "someday" and want to ride the iconic and legacy rolling stock, you'd better not wait too long to make the trip.

[@jbponzi1]

@@KyrilPG hey that’s cool the metro can run either steel (flanged?) wheel sets and pneumatic tires.

[@BrotherhoodOfHam]

The first time I passed through Mirabeau it was quite a shock when the train started going up

[@MindTheMap]

Closest you will get to a rollercoaster ride in a Métro train :)

[@Kv_Fx]

Great vid, watched your previous one which is equally as good. I love the short, comprehensive style with the added German Accent! Great English btw. Hope to see the channel grow bigger and bigger with every video!

[@MindTheMap]

That's loads of compliments packed into a single comment, thank you so much!

[@ComradeCovert]

immediately at the start when you said there were 87 of those entrances surviving in paris, I just had to be stunned because having 87 stations is amazing let alone the many of them which im sure have different entrance types and arent counted :p

[@MindTheMap]

There is an even more incredible Art Nouveau Entrance than the Guimard one although that one seems to be quite rare. But so many stations and entrances and Paris truly are pieces of art besides being part of one the world's best métro systems!

[@sanitman1488]

Interesting video and thanks for sharing. I hope to visit Paris and ride the metro and see its infrastructure first hand when things there calm down. ( protests and riots ) Not saying NYC any better ! Retired ‘motorman’ NYC Transit RTO ‘B’ division-Subway..

[@christopheklinger3217]

I went to that station just out of curiosity, because of the ramp and the fact that one side of the track does not stop at the station [MIRABEAU]. Your explanations were helpful, thanks. Station Lamarck Caulaincourt is also a odd station, deep and a double stairwell, in a single shaft. You have to cheat a bit to use both.

[@AlphaRP]

nice info, maybe will visit this metro later :)

[@MindTheMap]

You should, it's no that far from the Eiffel Tower and Paris' Statue of Liberty :)

[@Benski2805]

Echt cooles Video! Du hast mein Abo :D

[@MindTheMap]

Danke, willkommen in unserer kleinen Community!

[@atlutd_kyle]

There was also a replica Paris metro entrance at Van Buren Street station in Chicago, however they removed it early this year while they renovate the station.

[@gvishal9571]

This is extremely fascinating. Thank you!

[@ArchOfWinter]

There's a Guimard entrance in Toledo, OH in the US. It's a non-functional piece at the art museum. Not even an entrance to the museum or a tunnel, just two steps down to a flat surface.

[@curtisdaniel9294]

Fascinating ! Thanks for your efforts. 😊

[@benschaeffer8102]

Mirabeau is DEFINITELY interesting. It's a well-preserved piece of Paris Metro culture.

[@CSGhostAnimation]

I looked into it guys, the train stops for passengers. They do not require passengers run at 100 kmh and jump onto a moving train. Sorry for the confusion

[@YardenaZulekha]

Thanks for covering this video!

[@MindTheMap]

You're welcome!

[@neilcrawford8303]

Interesting facts and video. Never seen an underground station like that with an inclined track for passing trains. Liverpool has underground stations, but they are for full size commuter trains not tube or metro trains, similar to Thameslink in London. The Northern Line on Merseyrail is quite shallow as it remains on the north side of the Mersey. The Wirral Line is much deeper as it passes under the Mersey to serve the Wirral area and out to Cheshire. Three stations on the Wirral Line have single platforms and are only served in a clockwise direction. Trains perform a continuous non stop loop with trains for example going Chester -Liverpool-Chester via the loop under the city centre. Hamilton Square on the Wirral (south) side of the Mersey has three platforms, with one at a lower level that the other two, this allows for lines to pass under/over each other just beyond the station as the lines splits with services heading north to New Brighton and West Kirby, and south for Chester and Ellesmere Port. Thanks for your video.

[@Carlos-qz7ul]

Very well documented subject. I invite everyone who was fascinated by this very unusual feature of any metro 🚇 train, to really take the westbound train. Even if you're forewarned, one's always so surprising when you arrive to this station and instead of stopping, the train "takes off" and you can see people on the platform getting smaller and smaller, while feeling something funny in your belly... 🤢

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.

[@monica012077]

This was lovely, thank you!

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you!

[@Winspur1982]

Chicago, where I live, has a few of these sorts of stations, and yes, the route maps are drawn "incorrectly" to avoid confusing people. Your French sounds 99% perfect to me (my father spoke it fluently and I'm going by memories).

[@cuttingcut1321]

Sir , you already have 1.4k subscribers. Congratulations 👍

[@CrabappleKing]

Great video! Keep em coming

[@kmjohnsonmi]

Perfectly awesome video!!! Give us more Paris please!

[@chaikhor]

Great explanation. Thanks.

[@codefident4939]

Nice video! The entrance you showed us right after the beginnig of your video reminded me of old and beautiful M1 Foldalatti line in Budapest

[@profregan6937]

Achingly interesting and fascinating! Wonderful.

[@severnsea]

I love the Paris metro despite the smell of hot rubber - the trains use rubber tyres, I think to combat the noise as the video says it's not very deep and in many places you can hear the trains above ground, even in your hotel room. There's just something about it and we use it extensively when we visit. Living in an area in the UK where there are no underground trains it's just fascinating to go down a tunnel and come up somewhere completely different. You never know what you're going to see and it really is a great way to explore the city. Although we have stayed near there we have never been in that station. Absolutely fascinating and amazing what they achieved given how old it is. Very interesting video.

[@infinite_simulation668]

That was by far the best suggestion KZbin did since a long time. Great video, and very underrated! You should have 100 times the subscribers you have now and at least 10 times the views this video got today. Greetings from a fellow German. :) (By the way: the first thought which came in my mind when I heard your Voice: he is definitely a German. 😂) Keep it up mate!

[@abraber]

Next time I am in Paris I will check out this station. It's funny

[@MrMatavelhas]

There is also a Mirabeau entrance in Lisbon. Picoas,on the Rua Andrade Corvo

[@71ag0]

There's a metro station in Lisbon gifted by the French that is a replica of the Guimard style. This was in exchange for a gift from the Portuguese of ceramic tiles for the station Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau.

[@Taladar2003]

Presumably the tunnel is also responsible for the tracks being close together, making it even more expensive to have platforms for both directions there since you would need two platforms outside the tracks instead of one in the middle, requiring separate stairs and elevators for each direction.

[@fredericlepeltier3435]

Middle platform stations exist at some stations of the Paris Metro but contrary to one might think they require a larger tunnel. That is because the shape of the tunnel. If you look a the cross section of the typical paris metro station you'll find that it curve inward at the level of the platform, giving less room for side tracks compare to central tracks. That is true for most ex CMP lines. NS lines had a straight wall bottom tunnel and where the few central platform stations are situated. Terminus station (old or new) are an other type with central platform.

[@pierreernoult]

First time I used this line westbound, I saw my metro flying as you could see the station disappearing downward. I must admit, I was a kid.

[@kjetiltrondsen8242]

And a half year later i wondered why this chanel only has 13k subscribers.....

[@YamaguchiTada]

There is also a Guimard entrance at Bellas Artes station in Mexico city Line 2

[@alex.m.rotaru8479]

Another thing I learned today that I didn't need to know and that I most likely forgot about it very soon!

[@MindTheMap]

Did you forget about it? :)

[@pieroslalune]

Man, it's an amazing video ! Talking about metro stations in Paris, they are some that don't exist anymore, but we still can see them as the metro goes through it. On (current) Metro Line 8 between "La Motte Piquet Grenelle" and "Ecole Militaire" there is one :)

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you! I would love to visit one of those "Ghost Stations", do you know whether this is at all possible?

[@pieroslalune]

@@MindTheMap during european heritage days they usually open some places that are never opened to the public : the one that serves as a movie studio, "Porte des Lilas" is regularly open at this occasion. For the other ghost stations, I know that one of them is a homeless shelter at night and the others usually don't have an exit on the streets so it would be difficult to bring people to visit.

[@joaogomes1053]

Its Champ de Mars. But you have also Croix Rouge, Arsenal for exemple. Ando also a couple of stations that never opened: Porte Molitor and Haxo. The dont even have acess to the outside

[@MisatoBestWoman]

*Fascinating channel!!*

[@StuffWePlay]

Excellent video!

[@GriffenDoesIt]

This is such high quality content! Hope you get more eyes on your work

[@MindTheMap]

Thanks Gavin!

[@jdimbo13]

Great job ( superbe travail ) !

[@MindTheMap]

Merci beaucoup!

[@iiExplosionz12]

Thanks for covering this video! It's really a unique station and has its historical background - coming from someone who has travelled on the Paris metro most times whilst on holiday!

[@Ztbmrc1]

Good job making this video. What an interesting situation there. But you have explained it very well. I was on the nr 4 metro line twice this week. On Monday to travel from Gare du Nord to Gare Montrparnasse and on Thursday the other way round. It is a long walk from metrostation Montparnasse-Bienvenüe to the Montparnasse trainstation, but it all underground.

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you!

[@SoFabtastic]

This channel only has 700 subs?? Production of these vids are 100k+ quality! 💪 Habe abonniert! 👌

[@MindTheMap]

Dankeschön!

[@addrian27]

just subscribed. beautiful explanation. I miss Paris!

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you Adrian!

[@bryanyew3673]

What a great video!

[@infrequentlyaskedquestions]

Looks like this video has got a lot of attention, well deserved it was very thorough and interesting. Nice job.

[@MindTheMap]

Thank you so much!

[@bink023]

That was fantastic footage and a great explanation! Thank you for covering this unique station

[@KellyWu04]

Wow that’s a lot of knowledge

[@Planet__3]

Very nice video, I hope you will make more videos about the Paris Metro

[@MindTheMap]

I will definitely do another one! Surely one of the other 307 stations has an intriguing story to tell.

[@Quince828]

You do very well with your pronunciation

[@dylanst3802]

great video !!!! well done I enjoyed it.