Mrs Redboots wrote:
John Ray wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 1 Nov 2004:

Ian Jelf wrote:

The "space trains" on Paris's Line 1 are - I think - magnificent.

I would add Line 14 to that; the same design of stock, but
driverless. It's great fun to sit at the front!

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.
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Richard J.
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