Alexandre Dumas (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Alexandre Dumas
Metro de Paris - Ligne 2 - Alexandre Dumas 03.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 02Paris Metro 2.svg
place Paris XI , XX
opening January 31, 1903
Art nouveau style access

The Metro Station Alexandre Dumas is an underground station of Line 2 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located at the border point of the Quartier de la Roquette and the Quartier Sainte-Marguerite in the 11th arrondissement with the Quartier du Père-Lachaise and the Quartier de Charonne in the 20th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard de Charonne between its intersection with the Rue Alexandre Dumas and the street Rue de Charonne - Rue de Bagnolet.

Surname

It is named after the Rue Alexandre Dumas. The writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) became famous in particular for his historical novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Christo .

When it opened and for the following 67 years, the station was called “Bagnolet”. The eponymous Rue de Bagnolet leads in the direction of the suburb of Bagnolet on the eastern edge of the city . To avoid confusion with Porte de Bagnolet Metro Station, which opened in 1971 , the station was renamed on September 13, 1970.

History and description

The station was opened on January 31, 1903 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) when the extension of line 2 from Anvers to Bagnolet went into operation. It was the eastern terminus of the line for three months before it was extended on April 2, 1903 to its current terminus, Nation .

The 75 m long station is located under an elliptical vaulted ceiling. It has 4 m wide side platforms on two main tracks and side walls that follow the curvature of the ellipse. The only access is in the median of the Boulevard de Charonne south of the junction with the Rue de Bagnolet, it has the Art Nouveau decor designed by Hector Guimard .

vehicles

Two-axle vehicles with wooden superstructures initially ran on Line 2; the trains consisted of six short sidecars and one railcar at each end of the train. From 1914 to 1981 the line was operated by five-part, green-painted Sprague-Thomson trains. Since it was not to be converted to vehicles with rubber tires in the medium term, the MF 67 series was launched in 1979 , completely replacing its predecessor within two years. Series vehicles of the MF 01 series have been in use since 2008, and exclusively since 2011.

Remarks

  1. ↑ To distinguish it from Line 2 South (today Line 6 ) it was initially called Line 2 North
  2. ↑ The side walls of similar stations of the competing company Nord-Sud run in a straight line vertically in the lower area
  3. ↑ Towards the end of their service life, gray Sprague-Thomson trains, which were originally reserved for line 1 , also came onto the line

Web links

Commons : Alexandre Dumas (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 54 .
  2. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 2nd Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 150 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 43.
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 154.
  6. ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 185 .
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