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Old November 3rd 04, 02:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default London v Paris

Look below the photo: "Location: Bastille. Line: Metro Ligne 1"

Oh, of course..... I didn't see under the photo.


Bastille is a rather distinctive station, incidentally. It's located
at a point where Line 1 pops above ground to cross a canal, and has
both a sharp horizontal curve (pictured) and a sharp vertical curve
within the station. In fact, the west end of the platforms, where
the sharpest horizontal curve is (or maybe the entire horizontal
curve, I forget), is no longer used, and it's evident that this was
*made possible* by extending the platforms onto the vertical curve
that was formerly just east of the station. In other words, it was
felt better to have people getting out of trains step onto a sloping
platform than to have them step across a gap.
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