Coordinates: 48°51′41″N 2°22′27″E

Saint-Ambroise (Paris Métro)

Saint-Ambroise (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿ɑ̃ bʁwaz]) is a
station on line 9 of the Paris Métro, located in the 11th
Saint-Ambroise
arrondissement of Paris. It is under the Boulevard Voltaire. Paris Métro station

Contents
Location
History
Services for passengers
Access
Station layout
Platforms
Bus connections Location 11th arrondissement of
Paris
Nearby
Île-de-France
References France
Coordinates 48°51′41″N 2°22′27″E

Location Owned by RATP

Operated by RATP
The station is located under Boulevard Voltaire, northwest of
Other information
the Rue Saint-Ambroise exit. Oriented along a north-west /
south-east axis, it is situated between the Oberkampf and the Fare zone 1
Voltaire stations. History
Opened 10 December 1933
History Services

The station was opened on 10 December 1933 following the Preceding Paris Following
extension of line 9 from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de station Métro station
Montreuil. Its namesake is the street it is located on (rue Saint
Ambroise), where there is also a the church bearing the same Oberkampf Voltaire
name. toward Pont toward Mairie
de Sèvres de Montreuil
It owes its name to its proximity to Rue Saint-Ambroise and
the church of Saint-Ambroise on the other, which pay homage
Location
to Ambrose of Milan (340-394), bishop of Milan from 374 to
397, born in Trier, Germany and whose father was a prefect of
Gaul. The church was rebuilt following a decree of 24 January
1863 during the modernisation of the newly created Saint-
Ambroise district. Saint-
Ambroise
At the end of the 1990s, the station was chosen by RATP to
test the prototypes of the main lighting model that would be
deployed on the platforms of many other stations renovated as
part of the Espace Métro 2000 operation subsequently entitled Location within Paris
Renouveau du Métro and then Une métro + beau. In 1998, it
became the first in a series of 273 futures to benefit from the components. However, its corridors were only
modernised on 20 December 2005.

In 2018, 3,037,654 passengers entered this station which places it at the 183rd out of 302.[1]

Services for passengers

Access

The station has five access points, each consisting of a fixed staircase:

access 1 - Saint-Ambroise - adorned with a Dervaux candelabra, opening right off 1 Rue de la
Folie-Mericourt, crn. Boulevard Voltaire;
access 2 - Boulevard Voltaire - facing 78 Boulevard Voltaire;
access 3 - Rue Popincourt - located right of 86 Boulevard Voltaire (between the Jardin Truillot
and l'impasse Truillot);
access 4 - Boulevard Richard-Lenoir - opening facing 60 Boulevard Voltaire;
access 5 - Rue Saint-Sébastien - located at 57 Boulevard Voltaire.

Station layout
Street
Level
B1 Mezzanine
Line 9 Side platform, doors will open on the right
platforms
Westbound ← toward Pont de Sèvres (Oberkampf)
Eastbound toward Mairie de Montreuil (Voltaire) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

Platforms

Saint-Ambroise is a standard configuration station It has two platforms separated by metro tracks and the arch
is elliptical. The decoration is the style used for the majority of metro stations. The lighting strips are white and
rounded in the Gaudin style of the metro revival of the 2000s (although they have a second row of reflectors, a
prototype variant that was not reused), and the white ceramic tiled tiles cover the walls, the vault, the spandrels
and the outlets of the corridors. The advertising frames are faience honey colour in the original CMP style and
the name of the station is also in faience. The Akiko style seats are orange. Access is via both ends of the
platform.

Bus connections

The station is served by Line 56 of the RATP Bus Network.

Nearby
 Église Saint-Ambroise de Paris
Jardin des Moines-de-Tibhirine
Jardin Truillot

References
1. "Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2018" (https://data.ratp.fr/explore/embed/datas
et/trafic-annuel-entrant-par-station-du-reseau-ferre-2018/table/?sort=-rang). data.ratp.fr (in
French). Retrieved 25 June 2019.

Roland, Gérard (2003). Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram. Éditions Bonneton.

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