Couronnes (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svg Couronnes
Couronnes Metro, Paris 23 July 2014.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 02Paris Metro 2.svg
place Paris XI , XX
opening January 31, 1903
Illustration of the finding of the dead in a newspaper from August 16, 1903
Access designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style

The Metro Station Couronnes is an underground station of Line 2 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier de la Folie-Méricourt in the 11th arrondissement with the Quartier de Belleville in the 20th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard de Belleville at the intersecting street Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud - Rue des Couronnes.

Surname

It is named after the Rue des Couronnes. There are two theories as to the origin of the name: Presumably it goes back to a former location called Les Couronnes-sous-Savies, but a restaurant called Trois Couronnes (English: three crowns) could also have been named after.

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.

On August 10, 1903, the most serious accident of the Paris Métro so far occurred in the station. A fire in an empty train made up of eight cars pushed into the next station, Ménilmontant, had gotten out of control, and thick smoke was moving in the direction of Couronnes. Many passengers of the following, overcrowded four-car train that stopped there refused to heed the staff's request and to leave the vehicles because they wanted the fare refunded. At around 8 p.m. the lights went out, and at the same time the black smoke reached the station and covered it in darkness. Panic broke out, many of the people fleeing the smoke ran in the opposite direction from the exit. About 50 corpses were found lying on top of each other at the end of the platform, and other people suffocated in the tunnel and in the counter hall. A total of 75 people were killed in the Couronnes station.

On January 29, 1916, a bomb dropped by the German airship No. 79 tore a hole in the vaulted ceiling of the tunnel not far from the station.

The 75 m long station is located under a white-tiled elliptical vaulted ceiling. It has side platforms on two tracks and side walls that follow the curvature of the ellipse. The only access is in the median of Boulevard de Belleville on the north side of the above. Crossing, it has the art nouveau decor designed by Hector Guimard .

vehicles

Series MF 01 train arriving from Nation

Short two-axle vehicles with wooden superstructures initially ran on Line 2; the trains consisted of one motor car and three sidecars or six sidecars and one motor car 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 MF 01 series vehicles have been in use since 2008 , and mixed traffic with the MF 67 trains prevailed until 2011.

Remarks

  1. ↑ To distinguish it from Line 2 South (since 1942: Line 6 ) it was called Line 2 North until 1907
  2. ↑ The side walls of similar stations of the competing company Nord-Sud run in a straight line vertically in the lower area
  3. ↑ After the accident of 1903, both railcars - before only five sidecars - ran one behind the other at the Zugspitze
  4. ↑ 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 : Couronnes (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. 88 .
  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. 150 .
  3. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 18.
  4. ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 220 .
  5. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  6. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 154.
  7. ↑ Julian Pepinster: op. Cit. P. 185.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '9.4 "  N , 2 ° 22" 48.6 "  E