Château Rouge (Paris Métro)

Château Rouge
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris XVIII
opening	April 21, 1908

The Château Rouge metro station is an underground station on line 4 of the Paris Métro . With 6.9 million passengers boarding the Métro there, it took 44th place in the list of the most visited stations in 2012.

location

The station is located in the Quartier de Clignancourt in the 18th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways below the Boulevard Barbès at the level of the Rue Poulet, which crosses it at the Place du Château Rouge.

Surname

The name is derived from the district of the same name and the Place du Château Rouge created in 1847. Château Rouge (Eng .: Red Castle) was the name of a brick building built in 1780 , where in 1847 the first of 70 meetings of the "Campagne des banquets" took place. These events, disguised as celebratory meals, finally culminated in the bourgeois-democratic February revolution of 1848 . The building was demolished around 1882 to make way for tenement houses.

History and description

The station was commissioned on April 21, 1908 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) when the first section of line 4 from Porte de Clignancourt to Châtelet was opened.

The originally 75 m long station was extended to 90 m in the mid-1960s and converted for operation with rubber-tired trains . It lies under an elliptical vault, the side walls of which follow the curvature of the ellipse. The two main tracks are flanked by two side platforms.

The metro station has an entrance at Place du Château Rouge. A second exit with an escalator leads from the platform towards Porte de Clignancourt on Boulevard Barbès.

modification

Construction site of the new access structure, August 2016

At certain times of the day - and also on Saturday mornings when the weekly market takes place in the nearby Rue Poulet - the station was often very overcrowded due to inadequate access. In order to reduce the crowd, the RATP is fundamentally redesigning the station: The counter hall is enlarged from 45 m² to 160 m², which enables the installation of an additional staircase. The number of passage doors for the isolation systems will be increased to four at both the entrance and the exits. Despite the estimated total costs of around 10 million euros, there should be no disabled access. The station is to be completely closed from May 2016 to July 2017, during which time the platforms are also to be thoroughly renovated.

vehicles

The vehicles on Line 4 run on rubber tires filled with nitrogen. Six-car trains of the MP 59 series replaced the five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson type that ran on rails between 1966 and 1967 . The MP 89  CC series currently operates on Line 4 .

Remarks

1. ↑ Unlike the Quartier de Clignancourt, the Quartier de Château Rouge is not a district according to the Parisian administrative structure
2. ↑ The side walls of the stations built by the competing company Nord-Sud run in a straight line vertically
3. ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA

Web links

Commons : Château Rouge (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. ↑ Table (RATP) Passenger Numbers 2012 (French) accessed December 9, 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 80 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 183 f .
4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
5. ↑ Metronews, February 2013 (French) accessed December 9, 2013 ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Château Rouge en bien plus grand at ratp.fr, accessed on June 20, 2017.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 12 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 58"  E