Mrs Redboots wrote:
Richard J. wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 2 Nov 2004:

Mrs Redboots wrote:
When did they bring space trains on to Line 1? Last time I was
there, a couple of years ago, we travelled on both lines, and line
1 still had 2nd-generation rubber-wheel trains.

David Pirmann's tour of the Paris Métro at
http://world.nycsubway.org/eu/fr/paris dates from April 2000, and
Line 1 seems to have been largely populated with the new MP89
stock at that time. Incidentally, although he refers to the cars
as "articulated", they have conventional bogies on each car, not
shared ones.

Hmmm - thinking about it, it's quite possible I haven't been on the
Metro since 1999..... where does the time go? It might have been
2000, but I'm not sure!

Just discovered that Line 14 opened on 15 October 1998, and that MP89
trains were introduced on Line 1 from 1996 or 1997, though David Pirmann
managed to photograph an older one still in service in April 2000.
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Richard J.
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