Gare d'Austerlitz, in the 13th arrondissement, has been subject to construction work for the past decade but it has been mainly limited to the SNCF – France's national state-owned railway company.

Now upgrades are coming to the metro with major works beginning this month on the station and line five, which crosses the east of Paris from Bobigny-Pablo Picasso to Place d’Italie.

These include a new exchange hall and new connecting routes with escalators between lines five and 10.

As a result, the station is set to be closed to passengers using line five will until April.

From October 30, the Parisian Autonomous Transport Administration is also scheduled to close Bir-Hakeim for around three months.

The 15th arrondissement station serves line six which will continue to operate but no trains will stop there.

It is sude to reopen to the public on February 5 next year.

Until then, regular users of Bir-Hakeim have been recommended to invited to get on line six at Dupleix or Passy stations which are about a 500-metre walk away.

Further work is set continue on line 14 and tests on control equipment will see the entire line scheduled to be closed from Sunday (October 22) until November 6.

The line connects the Saint-Denis Pleyel venue hub in the north to Orly Airport in the south and is due to be fully operational by June 2024. 

A replacement bus service on the southern part of the line will be provided during the closure.

Additional closures are scheduled for November 18, 19 and 26.

Services on line 11 have been stopped at 10pm on every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday since the start of the year.

Normal service was originally due to resume at the end of September but now it has been extended until December.

This is due to work being done to extend the line, with five new stations set to open in the Parisian spring of 2024.

The Olympic Games are scheduled to run from July 26 to August 11, before the Paralympics take place from August 28 to September 8.