Convention (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Convention
Metro 12 quais Convention.JPG
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 12Paris Metro 12.svg
place Paris XV
opening November 5, 1910

The metro station Convention is an underground station of Line 12 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Saint-Lambert district of the 15th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue de Vaugirard north of the crossing Rue de la Convention.

Surname

It is named after the Rue de la Convention. Their name refers to the National Convention (fr: convention nationale), the constitutional and legislative assembly at the time of the French Revolution . It abolished the monarchy and established the republic.

History and description

Line 12 was built as Line A by the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (North-Sud) and operated by it until 1930. With the opening of the first section from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Porte de Versailles , the Station Convention went into operation on November 5, 1910. On March 27, 1931, line A was renamed line 12 after the Nord-Sud had been absorbed by the previously competing Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) the previous year .

Under an elliptical vault there are two side platforms on two parallel tracks. The station has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, sufficient for five-car trains. Because of the overhead contact line originally on the north-south routes , it is slightly higher than the CMP stations located under similar vaults. In contrast to the stations set up by the CMP, the side walls do not follow the curvature of the ellipse, but run vertically in the lower area. Typically for the subway stations in the north-south, the station was designed somewhat more elaborately than the stations of the CMP, but it lost its original decor in the course of a renovation. The side walls are covered with panels that largely cover the white tiles.

The two entrances are on either side of the Rue de Vaugirard on the north side of the Rue de la Convention. They are each marked by a mast with a yellow “M” in a double circle. There is also an exit with an escalator.

vehicles

On line 12, trains of the north-south type Sprague-Thomson ran initially , which differed in several points from the Sprague-Thomson vehicles of the CMP. A striking feature was the power supply of the leading railcar by means of a pantograph . After the takeover of Nord-Sud by CMP, this type of business was given up in the 1930s. In the 1970s, the north-south trains were eliminated in favor of the Sprague-Thomson standard design, and in 1977 modern trains of the MF 67 series came onto the line.

Web links

Commons : Convention (Paris Metro)  - collection of pictures, 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. 85 .
  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. 294 .
  3. ↑ a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 295.
  4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
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