Paris Metro Line 7

Line 7
A refurbished MF 77 at Place d'Italie
Overview
Termini	La Courneuve–8 mai 1945 Mairie d'Ivry or Villejuif–Louis Aragon
Connecting lines
Stations	38
Service
System	Paris Métro
Operator	RATP
Rolling stock	MF 77, 5 carriages per trainset
Ridership	119 million (avg. per year) 5th/16th
History
Opened	5 November 1910 (1910-11-05)
Technical
Line length	22.4 km (13.9 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	750 V DC third rail
Route map proposed extension Mairie de Drancy Le Bourget   La Courneuve–8 mai 1945 Fort d'Aubervilliers Aubervilliers–Pantin–Quatre Chemins Seine-Saint-Denis Paris La Villette shops Porte de la Villette Canal Saint-Denis Corentin Cariou Crimée Riquet Stalingrad to Pré-Saint-Gervais Louis Blanc Château-Landon Gare de l'Est  Poissonnière Cadet Le Peletier Chaussée d'Antin–La Fayette Opéra Pyramides Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre Pont Neuf Châtelet Pont Marie Sully–Morland Seine Jussieu Place Monge Censier–Daubenton Les Gobelins Place d'Italie Tolbiac Maison Blanche Porte d'Italie Porte de Choisy Porte d'Ivry Choisy shops Paris Val-de-Marne Pierre et Marie Curie Mairie d'Ivry Le Kremlin–Bicêtre Villejuif–Léo Lagrange Villejuif–Paul Vaillant-Couturier Villejuif–Louis Aragon

Paris Metro Line 7 is one of sixteen currently open lines of the Paris Métro system, which links La Courneuve–8 mai 1945 in Seine-Saint-Denis northeast of Paris, with Mairie d'Ivry southeast and Villejuif–Louis Aragon in the south, while passing through important parts of central Paris on a northeast to diagonal to south route.

Line 7 began operating in 1910 and, along with Line 13, is one of the only two Métro lines currently into branched operation. Line 3 also was meant to branch at Gambetta, but this was cancelled in favor of a branch becoming line 3bis. Line 7 did originally split north, at Louis Blanc, but a notable difference in usage between the two branches (due to Porte de la Vilette being a large bus hub serving the neighbouring Seine-Saint-Denis department) had the branch heading to Place du Danube separated in 1967 to become Line 7bis. In 1982, a new branch was added in the southeast of Maison Blanche and heading towards Villejuif. Line 7 has only steel rails.

At 18.6 km (12 mi), Line 7 is one of the longest in the Paris Métro network. In addition, it contains the most stations as well as being the fourth most-used line of the Paris Métro, with 135.1 million riders in 2017.