The station opened on 19 July 1900.
It is situated in the 12th arrondissement. Gare de Lyon is served by the metro lines 1 and 14. Both have underground stations.
One of the platform entrances outside the station building.
The fence around the entrance is in the art nouveau style and painted green. Each panel has a flower design.
The lamppost at the side is green with a red sign with white capital letters showing the word 'METRO'. It is topped with a white, ball-shaped light.
The station sign is pained green with the station name pained in green on a yellow background.
In the panel is a map of the metro network.
The corridor from the entrance is tiled in very small white hexagonal tiles.
Colourful plastic strips have been placed half way up the wall and along the the corridor.
Further along the corridor, grey and orange hexagonal tiles have been added to the white tiles to form patterns.
Platform Line 1
Line 1 started operation on 19 July 1900.
The brick ceiling, which is painted white, consists of several small arches.
The ceiling is supported by steel girders and pillars painted yellow.
The lights are in yellow metal casings and hung from the ceiling.
The double pillars are supporting the steel beams and the ceiling. Each pillar is hexagonal.
They are joined at the top and decorated with patterns. This makes them look like bridges.
Yellow metal seats in the shape of half-bowls with a smiley have been fixed to the wall.
The ground is painted grey.
The walls are tiled in in large square white ceramic tiles.
The signage consists of mixed case white letters on a dark blue plasticised board.
Special free WIFI hotspots have been established on the platforms.
Platform Line 14
Line 14 started operation on 15 October 1998. It has a central platform with side tracks.
The floor is made of polished stone in different colours. The majority is pink. Grey floor tiles have been placed at the edge of the platform.
The track has been separated from the platform by platform barriers.
Some light has been placed above the platform barrier in white metal casings.
A small indoor garden has been installed behind the track.
Additional lighting has been provided over the centre platform.
The ceiling is straight with coloured panels.
The station opened on 10 December 1933.
Charonne is an underground station in the 11th arrondissement. It is served by the metro line 9.
The station takes its name from the castle Charonne.
The walls of the corridor are tiled until about head-height with white tiles. They are topped by a row of dark brown tiles with a flower pattern. The wall above and ceiling is is painted white.
The advertising frames in the corridor are surrounded by honey-coloured ceramic tiles. Their tops curve slightly on the painted part of the wall.
The station has two side platforms.
The vaulted ceiling is tiled.
Yellow plastic seats have been fixed to the wall just in front of the large advertising panels.
The edge of the platforms is painted white, followed by a row of grey tiles wilh raised circles.
Access to the platform is from the end.
The uplights reflect on the metal top.
The station name is burned in large upper-case white letters on rectangular blue ceramic tiles. The panel of 9 x 18 tiles is surrounded by a plain white frame made from ceramic tiles.
Underneath the main name is an additional small plasticised sign with white lettering: "Place du 8 février 1962". It marks the date when - during a demonstration to protest for Algerian independence - the police closed the surrounding streets and pushed the crowd down the metro. A number of demonstrators died during the fight.
Above the top centre of the advertising frame is a three part ceramic embellishment.
A spear-like centre is held up by two swirls with an open dahlia flower and a fuchsia flower each.
Detail of the ceramic frame. Large cabbage or spinach leaves are interspaced with slim tulip-like flowers. A row of raised circles separate them from the advertising.
The underground station opened on 2 April 1971.
It is situated in the 20th arrondissement, on the place of a gate of the former 19th century city wall, constructed by Thiers.
Porte de Bagnolet is served by the metro line 3.
Escalator and stairs from the platform towards the exit.
In front of the escalator is an area with raised circles.
The walls of the corridors are tiled in white rectangular tiles with a raised centre.
At about shoulder-height they are topped by a row of brown border tiles with flower detail.
The tracks lie between the two platforms.
The edge of the platforms is marked with a thick white line and a row of plastic tiles with raised centres.
The station name is in white upper and lower case letters on a blue plasticised sign.
The cappuccino coloured tiles are placed vertical.
Below the sign is a white ceramic frame for advertising RATP sponsored local events.
The walls are tiled in brown. The ceiling is painted in white.
The red plastic seats are in front of the advertising boards which are framed in grey metal.
The station opened on 19 October 1904.
It is situated on the border of the 8th and 9th arrondissements.
It is served by the metro lines 3, 12, 13 and 14.
One of the entrances. It is surrounded by a green fence with bars of equal lengths.
Four acorn shaped lights in green fixings have been placed at ground level at the end of the entrance.
Escalators and stairs leading to the glass dome at place de Rome.
The high walls are round and made of stone.
This is one of several tiled pillars in the ticket hall.
The top of the pillar is painted sandy brown. The sides of it are tiled in white rectangular tiles with smaller square sandy tiles intersperced. The top row of white tiles has a green flower pattern.
Strip of ceiling lights in the corridor.
Platform Line 3
Line 3 started operation on 19 October 1904.
The ceiling is constructed in form of several small arches and tiled in white. It is supported by silver painted iron beam.
The walls are tiled in large, flat, white tiles.
Entrance to the platform is from the end.
The floor of the platform has been marked with yellow lines to indicate the position of the doors when the metro stops.
The marble bench runs along the length of the platform.
Platform Line 12
Line 12 started operation on 5 November 1910.
Platform Line 13
Line 13 started operation on 26 February 1911.
The signage is in mixed case in the Paricine font.
The walls are tiled in Metro style, that is white rectangular ceramic tiles with a raised centre.
Barriers have been installed to prevent unauthorised access to the tracks and to allow automisation of the line.
Logo of the North-South company in a green advertising frame with a pattern of olive branches.
&Interwinedd letters N and S are placed on a ribbon.
Entrance to the platform is from the end.
The vaulted ceiling is painted.
Platform Line 14
Line 14 started operation on 16 December 2003. The station is a terminus of the line.
This line is fully automised.
The station opened on 21 April 1908 as part of the original section from Châtelet to Porte de Clignancourt.
It is situated on the border of the 1st and 2nd arrondissements. The underground station is named after Étienne Marcel (between 1302 and 1310 – 31 July 1358), who was the provost of the Paris merchants from 1354 - 1358. It is served by the metro line 4.
The line has only one entrance, which is on the rue Turbigo.
The ouside is in Art Nouveau style.
The yellow sign over the entrance has the the word "Metropolitain" written in green letters.
On its sides are two large flower-shaped lamps with red lights.
The corridor from the entrance is tiled about head-high in white ceramic tiles with a raised centre. At ground level is a row of plein turquoise tiles.
At the top is a row of turquoise border tiles with flowers in diamonds.
A map of the local area hangs in a white ceramic frame.
The ceiling is flat with some support beams. They are painted white.
The same style of lighting is used as on the platforms.
Entrance to the platform is from the end. A fire extinguisher has been placed on the wall close by.
The walls are tiled in white ceramic tiles with a raised centre.
The signage is in mixed case white letters on blue.
The edge of the platform is marked in white. A row of about 20 cm wide nobbed tiles has been added to warn sight-impaired travellers of the edge.
The vaulted ceiling is tiled. The lights consist of flourescent tubes in a silver casing and hang in pairs of two wires from the ceiling.
The tracks are separated by a low metal fence.
Red plastic seats are mounted on metal bars fixed to the wall. Behind them are advertising boards in metal frames.
The red plastic seats have been replaced with yellow plastic chairs in 2016.