The first laps of the MF19, a “Swiss knife” metro

At the RATP, we baptize the metro models according to the year they were ordered. Furthermore, Even if you are familiar with line 10. Meanwhile, no doubt do you know that the train that takes you from Austerlitz station to Boulogne-Billancourt is an MF67. Nevertheless, Or a rail metro – in opposition to MP, the tire metros of lines 4 and 14, for example – ordered in 1967. Therefore, Although robust. endowed with beautiful longevity, the 40 MF67 of the line accuse the weight of years, technological upheavals and hundreds of millions of passengers transported.

In the fall, the MF67 will gradually be sent to the scrap, replaced by their successors, the MF19. And it will be the start of a major renovation sketched in 2015 for half of the Paris metro lines. After line first laps mf19, “swiss knife” 10. all the lines of lines 7 bis, 3 bis, 3, 12, 8, 3 and 7 (in this order) will welcome this new metro, a unique model that will replace three generations of trains ordered in 1967, therefore, 1977 and 1988. About 400 trains.

“We have chosen to make MF19 generic equipment. a” Swiss knife “capable of adapting to all our lines and their historic environments, but also compatible with the systems and services of today and tomorrow”reports Sylvie Buglioni, Project, Technical and Industrial Director at RATP. Depending on its configuration with four. five cars, the MF19 will adapt to the very modest “bis lines” as in the very long line 8. Above all. it has been designed to be able to operate without driver, in the future where lines will be automated – 2033 for line 13. A unique model. finally, they are economies of scale first laps mf19, “swiss knife” and optimized maintenance, We are worth to the Parisian Régie as in Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), Transport organizing authority in the capital region.

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