MF 67

The MF 67 (French: Métro Fer appel d'offres de 1967; English: Steel-wheeled metro ordered in 1967) is a fleet of steel-wheel electric multiple unit trains for the Paris Metro. The first MF 67 trains entered service on Line 3 in July 1968, and became one of the biggest orders for the Metro, with 1,482 cars constructed. The need to replace the Sprague-Thomson fleet, as well as increasing costs associated with the later-cancelled plan to introduce rubber-tyred trains on all Metro lines, were the main factors for the size of the order. At its peak, during the late 1980s and the early-1990s, the MF 67 operated on eight of the (then) fifteen Metro lines (2, 3 and 3bis, 5, 7bis, 9, 10 and 12): the MF 67 also operated on Lines 7, 8 and 13 (including the old Line 14), all before the introduction of the MF 77 in 1978. Between 2004 and 2007, the Line 3 sets have been deeply refurbished, adding new lighting, a forced ventilation system, a new black front, rearranged seating, automated announcements, stop indicator lights and door warning lights above the doors. A more moderate refurbishment were done on the trains on lines 3 bis and 9, adding a new black front similar to the ones on line 3 and replacing the old bench seats with single seats. However, sets 129 and 130 from line 12 were transferred to line 3 in 2012 and weren’t renovated, as the renovation of the cars had ended in 2007, thus making them the only non-renovated MF67 sets to run on line 3. Many MF 67 trains have been removed from service: throughout 1994, the MF 88 displaced the MF 67 from Line 7bis, and from 2008 to 2016, the MF 01 replaced the MF 67 on Lines 2, 5,...