Tolbiac () is a station of the

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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 crossing of line 7 from Pont de Sully to Place Monge. On 7 March 1930 the line was extended from Place d'Italie to

Porte de Choisy The Quartier asiatique (Asian Quarter), also called Triangle de Choisy or Petite Asie (Chinese: 巴黎唐人街, Vietnamese: ''Phố Tàu Paris'') is the largest commercial and cultural center for the Asian community of Paris. It is located in t ...

, 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

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near

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, where the

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under Clovis I beat the Alamanni 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

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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

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Nearby

* Quartier Asiatique *

Parc de Choisy The Parc de Choisy is a public park located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, near the Quartier Asiatique between avenue de Choisy, rue George-Eastman, rue Charles-Moureu, and rue du Docteur-Magnan. It was created in 1937. The nearest metro s ...

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References

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