Chemin Vert (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Chemin Vert
Metro Chemin Vert (2) .JPG
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 08Paris Metro 8.svg
place Paris III , XI
opening May 5, 1931
Access on the west side of the boulevard Beaumarchais with Art Deco candelabra

Chemin Vert is an underground station on line 8 of the Paris Métro on the eastern edge of the Marais district .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier des Archives in the 3rd arrondissement with the Quartier Saint-Ambroise in the 11th arrondissement of Paris . It is located along the Boulevard Beaumarchais between the Rue Saint-Gilles and the Rue du Chemin Vert.

Surname

It is named after the Rue du Chemin Vert off the Boulevard Beaumarchais. "Chemin vert" (German: green path) was the name of a path that had existed since 1650 and wound between the vegetable gardens that were then there.

History and description

The station was put into operation on May 5, 1931, when the section from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Charenton of line 8 was opened at the beginning of the colonial exhibition in the Bois de Vincennes . Under an elliptical, white-tiled vaulted ceiling, it has side platforms on two parallel tracks and was built with a length of 105 m to accommodate seven-car trains. The two entrances are on both sides of the Boulevard Beaumarchais at the level of the rue Saint-Gilles which joins it. They are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .

vehicles

During the colonial exhibition, seven-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design ran at the station ; later the train lengths were shortened to five cars. From 1975 onwards, MF 67 trains came on line 8, which were replaced by the MF 77 series from 1980 .

Surroundings

  • The "royal square" Place des Vosges , it is considered one of the most beautiful squares in the city

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Marais is not a district according to the Paris administrative structure
  2. ↑ Because the stations of line 8 to the west of Richelieu - Drouot were initially only 75 m long, the last two wagons of a train continued to run empty from there, as they did not reach the edge of the platform

Web links

Commons : Chemin Vert (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. 82 .
  2. ↑ 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. 241 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 27 ″  N , 2 ° 22 ′ 5 ″  E