Mtropolitain de Paris - The Paris Mtro in 1965 
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by Iain W. Logan MCIT
September 1995 to August 2004 - Version 2.0

This is a simulation of the Paris Mtro as it was in 1965, when I first 
visited that city on a school trip. I have many happy memories of roaming 
around the system. Being in a senior year at school certainly had its 
benefits on that trip!

This is a BAHN340 network, and a fairly large one at that. It is dedicated to 
Inspector Clouseau, for opting for a Police Career (thankfully) rather than 
one in public transport! Having said that, The Paris Mtro was, and is a very 
efficient system, and a worthy part of that beautiful city.

If you have difficulty with finding enough memory for such a large layout, 
try shutting down any TSRs and make sure that any utilities, mouse drivers 
etc., are in high memory.

The network is as accurate as I can make it, given that I used a later map. I 
have kept as strictly as I can to the track plan, but have had to vary the 
track layout at termini to suit the characteristics of the BAHN program. I 
have also had to guess at earlier infrastructure, where the lines were 
extended between 1965 and 1980, the date of the track plan. I've made 
extensive use of regulating signals and 'cascaded' signal sections in this 
layout.

Areas of doubt include:

Gambetta (Line 3)
Porte de Clignancourt (Line 3)
Porte de la Villette (Line 7)
Charenton coles (Line 8)
Porte d'Auteuil (Line 10)
Carrefour Pleyel (Line 13)
Invalides (Line 14)
Porte de Vanves (Line 14)

If anyone can supply me with correct information I should be much obliged.

Thanks to Nick Leverton for the loan of the 1980 Quail track map, and Brian 
Hardy for his excellent 'Paris Metro Handbook' (ISBN 185414 154 6) published 
by Capital Transport Publishing (7.95). This book is a worthy companion to 
this layout.

LINE	LIST OF LINES
(Trains)	-------------

1  (28) 	PONT DE NEUILLY - CHTEAU DE VINCENNES
2  (26)	PORTE DAUPHINE - NATION
3  (27)	PONT DE LEVALLOIS BCON - GAMBETTA/PORTE DES LILAS
4  (30)	PORTE DE CLIGNANCOURT - PORTE D'ORLEANS
5  (28)	PLACE D'ITALIE - GLISE DE PANTIN
6  (26)	TOILE - NATION
7  (39)	MAIRIE D'IVRY - PORTE DE LA VILETTE/PR ST GERVAIS
8  (32)	BALARD - CHARENTON ECLES
9  (28)	PONT DE SVRES - MAIRIE DE MONTREUIL
10 (22)	PORTE D'AUTEUIL - GARE D'AUSTERLITZ
11 (15)	CHTELET - MAIRIE DES LILAS
12 (30)	MAIRIE D'ISSY - PORTE DE LA CHAPELLE
13 (11)	ST LAZARE - PORTE DE CLICHY/CARREFOUR PLEYEL
14 (13)	PORTE DE VANVES - INVALIDES

The Funiculaire de Montmartre with its 2 cars is also depicted. Depots are 
not modelled apart from Ateliers de Pleyel (Line 13) and Ateliers de 
Vaugirard (Line 12).

Note: Lines 13 and 14 were linked in 1976 and became line 13 throughout.

The famous rubber tyred 'Pneumatique' stock runs on lines 1 (MP59 Stock) and 
11 (MP55 stock) in this simulation, represented by the lighter blue coloured 
Munich trains. Lines 4 and 6 were converted for rubber tyred stock in 1967 
and 1974 respectively.

Line 13 ran with MA52 articulated steel-wheel stock, represented by the 
darker Munich stock. This was later transerred to Line 10.

All the other lines use combinations of blue/yellow or green/red cars, the 
yellow and red ones being the first class cars. These represent the 'Sprague 
Stock', mostly built before the first World War.

The actual lines used in the simulation were subdivided and suffixed with a 
letter as follows:

A, B, L or G: Train runs for all or most of the day.
M: Train runs till early evening.
P: Train runs at peak hours.

There are slightly less trains in the simulation than actually operate in 
real life, but sufficient to give 2-3 minute headways in the peak hours.

Unlike most other systems, the trains on the Paris Mtro are stored 'on the 
line' and the depots are used only for maintenance and repairs. Some stations 
such as Pont de Levallois have inspection pits in the platform roads.

New in version 2 - for BAHN 3.81 upwards, Metro Cars contained in the
standard BAHN libraries.

Getting the network to operate reliably and store trains realistically was 
quite a headache! I resorted to pull-ins only where I was stuck for a 
solution. I don't pretend that the actual methods I've used are accurate - I 
just used the infrastructure which was available. 

Comments and suggestions welcomed. This ZIP archive may be freely distributed 
provided all the files supplied are present and that they remain unaltered.

If you place this archive on another network, please let me know by email.

 Iain Logan,
 2, Frances Street,
 LANGHOLM
 Dumfriesshire
 Scotland

 +44 1 3873 81046
 iainlogan@enterprise.net
 http://homepages.enterprise.net/iainlogan
