Avron (Paris Métro)

Avron
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris XI , XX
opening	April 2, 1903

Art nouveau style access

Pulling out train of the MF 67 series , 2010

The metro station Avron is a station on the Line 2 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier Sainte-Marguerite in the 11th arrondissement with the Quartier de Charonne in the 20th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under the Boulevard de Charonne to the north of its intersection with the Rue de Montreuil - Rue d'Avron.

Surname

It is named after the Rue d'Avron, which begins there. The road leads towards the Plateau d'Avron , east of Paris , which played an important role in the defense of the city in the Franco-Prussian War in December 1870 .

History and description

The station was opened on April 2, 1903 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP), when line 2 was completed in its current expansion with the opening of the extension from Bagnolet (since 1970: Alexandre Dumas ) to Nation .

The 75 m long station lies under an elliptical , white tiled ceiling vault. It has 4 m wide side platforms on two main tracks and side walls that follow the curvature of the ellipse. There is an easy track change to the north of the station . The only access is in the median of the Boulevard de Charonne north of the Rue d'Avron, it has the Art Nouveau décor 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 : Avron (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 58 .
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 f .
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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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '5.2 "  N , 2 ° 23" 53.5 "  E