Concorde (Métro Paris)
 Concorde
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris I , VIII |
| opening | August 13, 1900 |
Concorde is an underground transfer station of the Paris Métro . It is served by lines 1 , 8 and 12 .
location
The station is located on the border of the 1st and 8th arrondissements of the French capital Paris , below the Place de la Concorde . The Place de la Concorde is on the right-hand side of the Seine , directly on its bank. It is framed by two parks. To the southeast is the Jardin des Tuileries , on the northwest side of the Jardin des Champs-Élysées . With the Avenue des Champs-Élysées , the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue Royale leading to the Madeleine , three famous Parisian streets have their starting point on the Place de la Concorde. In a south-westerly direction, the subsequent bridge Pont de la Concorde leads over the Quai des Tuileries and further over the Seine to the southern bank of the Rive Gauche . At the center of the square, south of the route of line 1 and between the stations of the two other lines, stands the 23-meter-high Egyptian monolith obelisk of Luxor .
Surname
It is named after the Place de la Concorde. This square, laid out in 1772, was initially called Place Louis XV , and from 1792 onwards, for four years, Place de la Révolution. In 1796 it was given its current name.
history
The station is one of the oldest on the Paris network. On July 19, 1900, the Paris subway was opened with line 1 of the CMP railway company, but only eight of the planned stations could be put into operation. The Concorde underground station on the line followed on August 13, 1900.
Line A of the competing company Nord-Sud (today's line 12) went into operation in this area on November 5, 1910, line 8 (CMP) on March 12, 1914.
Shortly after the opening, on October 19, 1900, there was an accident. A small fire triggered a short circuit, which resulted in the following train colliding with a train standing in the station. 38 people were injured, 4 of them seriously.
description
All stations have two side platforms on two main tracks. Lines 1 and 8 were built using an open construction method with a rectangular cross-section. Their ceilings consist of small vaults made of bricks. These rest on longitudinal girders running in the direction of the track, which in turn rest on iron support beams lying transversely to the direction of travel. The platforms were originally 75 meters long and 4.10 meters wide, those of Line 1 were extended to 90 meters in the early 1960s. Automatic trains have been running on Line 1 since November 3, 2011, for which the platforms have been raised and equipped with platform screen doors.
As usual with the Nord-Sud, the station on line 12 was designed to be more complex than that of the CMP. It has a vaulted ceiling that is slightly higher than similar stations of the former CMP because of the original overhead line operation . In 1991 it was decorated with a decoration that is unique in Paris: small white ceramic plates, each with a blue letter, are lined up to produce the text of the Declaration of Human and Citizens' Rights (Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen) of August 26, 1789.
Concorde station has six exits, all of which are on the north side of Place de la Concorde in the area of the intersecting streets of Rue Royale, Rue Saint-Florentin and Rue de Rivoli.
Lines 1 and 8 are connected to the southeast of the station by an operating track. Trains coming from the Champs-Élysées - Clemenceau station change to line 8, must pass through the station on the wrong platform. To the north of the station on line 8 and east of the station on line 1 there is a single track change . Line 1 crosses line 12 almost at right angles and then passes under line 8 that runs parallel to that line.
vehicles
Initially wrong on Line 1 trains consisting of a motor coach 2nd class with only one cab , a sidecar were second class and a sidecar first class. These vehicles were two-axle and each nearly nine meters long. As early as 1902, eight-car trains were formed, which consisted of six trailer cars and one railcar at each end of the train. By 1905, the railcars were replaced by four-axle vehicles that rested on bogies . From 1906, there were also sidecars on bogies, the six-car trains from then on consisted of three multiple units and three sidecars. In 1908, green painted five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design entered Line 1, which stayed there until the 1960s. From May 1963, the Sprague-Thomson trains, which ran on rails, were successively replaced by the rubber-tyred vehicles of the MP 59 series, until December 1964, mixed traffic of the two modes of operation prevailed. The MP 89 CC series followed in 1997, which gave way to the MP 05 series with the start of automatic operation .
From 1975 vehicles of the MF 67 series replaced the Sprague-Thomson trains on Line 8 . This in turn was followed in 1980 by the MF 77 series , which has been operating on this line ever since.
Today's line 12 was taken into operation by the Nord-Sud with modified Sprague-Thomson trains. Their leading railcars obtained power from an overhead line , so they were fitted with small pantographs . This operating mode lasted until the 1930s. In the 1970s they were initially replaced by Sprague-Thomson trains of the CMP design. The first MF 67 came on the line in 1977; they are currently the only rolling stock used there.
Attractions
- Above the station is the Place de la Concorde with the Luxor Obelisk , the Hôtel de Crillon and the American Embassy
- The Avenue des Champs-Élysées begins in a westerly direction
- To the east runs the Rue de Rivoli above the square
- At the eastern end is the Jardin des Tuileries with the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume and the Musée de l'Orangerie
- To the south, the square opens onto the Seine , where the Pont de la Concorde bridge and the Assemblée nationale are located
Remarks
- ^ After the metro accident at Couronnes station in August 1903, both railcars ran one behind the other at the Zugspitze
- ↑ In contrast to usual, the trains on Line 1 were kept in light gray from the early 1930s onwards (with the 1st class car that was still red)
- ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
Web links
- Track plan at carto.metro.free.fr
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . Bonneton, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 85 .
- ^ 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. 131 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 294.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 240.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 130.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 134.
- ^ Christoph Groneck: Metros in France . 1st edition. Robert Schwandl, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936573-13-1 , p. 6 .
- ↑ Track plan for Concorde and the surrounding area at carto.metro.free.fr, accessed on April 9, 2016.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 132 ff.
- ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 295.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Champs-Élysées - Clemenceau ← La Défense |
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Tuileries Château de Vincennes → |
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Invalides ← Balard |
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Madeleine Pointe du Lac → |
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Madeleine ← Front Populaire |
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Assemblée nationale Mairie d'Issy → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 56.2 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 16" E