Colonel Fabien (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Colonel Fabien
Metro de Paris - Ligne 2 - Colonel Fabien 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 02Paris Metro 2.svg
place Paris X , XIX
opening January 31, 1903
Guimard access in Art nouveau style

Colonel Fabien is an underground station on line 2 of the Paris Métro .

location

The metro station is located on the border of the Quartier de l'Hôpital-Saint-Louis in the 10th arrondissement with the Quartier du Combat in the 19th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard de la Villette south of the Place du Colonel Fabien.

Surname

Originally the station was called "Combat" because the place that gave it its name was called Place du Combat when it opened. Between 1778 and 1848 there was a wooden arena in which animal duels (including dogs, bulls and tigers) took place.

On August 19, 1945 the metro station was renamed like the square after Pierre Georges alias Colonel Fabien (1919–1944). Colonel Fabien was a French resistance fighter during the German occupation of France in World War II . On August 21, 1941, he shot down the German officer candidate Alfons Moser in the Barbès Rochechouart underground station , which is considered to be the first attempt to assassinate the German occupation forces .

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 (since 1970: Alexandre Dumas ) was put into operation.

The 75 m long station lies under an elliptical , white tiled ceiling vault. It has side platforms on two tracks and side walls that follow the curvature of the ellipse. The only access is the Art Nouveau decor designed by Hector Guimard .

To the north of the station, the route leaves the tunnel and leads over a ramp to the elevated railway viaduct with the next Jaurès underground station .

vehicles

MF-01 train on the ramp to the elevated viaduct, in the background the Jaurès station

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 : Colonel Fabien (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gérard Roland: op. Cit. P. 84.
  2. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 83 .
  3. ^ 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 .
  4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  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 ° 52 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 2 ° 22 ′ 13 ″  E