Montparnasse – Bienvenüe (Paris Métro)

Montparnasse - Bienvenüe is an underground station of the Paris Métro. It is located on the border of the 6th, 14th and 15th arrondissement of Paris. The station is served by the Metro lines 4, 6, 12 and 13 of the Paris metro system. The name comes from the overlying long-distance railway station and the engineer Fulgence Bienvenüe. It offers connecting flights on aboveground linked railway station, the Gare Montparnasse, the fourth largest and most important railway station for TGV trains to Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rennes and Nantes. The station is a major transfer hubs in the center of Paris. With about 81,000 passengers a day was the 2004, the station frequented the fourth largest metro station. By the end of 2009, the station via a moving walkway special disposal. This had a speed of about nine kilometers per hour, which is about three times the speed of a normal walkway. Its operation was discontinued in September 2009 by speed -related injuries among passengers.

The station was opened with the southern extension of the former Line 2 (now line 6) was taken to the Place d'Italie under the name Montparnasse into operation on 24 April 1906. On October 14, 1907, the line was 2 to line 5 on March 11, 1910, the station in Avenue du Maine was renamed. A month later, the station of the line was opened 4. In November 1910, the station of the line followed 12 The last expansion took place on 21 January 1937, when the station of the then line 14 (now line 13) was put into operation.