Europe (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svgEurope
Simone Veil
Metro de Paris - Ligne 3 - Europe 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 03Paris Metro 3.svg
place Paris VIII
opening October 19, 1904
Art nouveau style access
The eponymous square is on a viaduct over the railway tracks
Place de l'Europe at the time of the opening of Metro line 3

The metro station Europe is an underground station of line 3 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located in the Quartier de l'Europe in the 8th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue de Rome at its intersection with the Rue de Madrid.

Surname

It is named after the Place de l'Europe (German: Europaplatz) located approx. 50 m east of the station. The almost circular square with six star-shaped streets was built on a viaduct that lies above the apron of the Gare Saint-Lazare long-distance train station . The outgoing streets are named after European cities, including rue de Berlin, which was renamed rue de Liège at the beginning of the First World War . In 1931 the viaduct was renewed and the square was enlarged. On April 25, 2018 it was announced that the station will be renamed Europe-Simone-Veil . On May 29, 2018, the new boards with the station name were unveiled, on which Simone Veil is now noted as a subtitle.

History and description

On October 19, 1904, the subway station went into operation with the opening of line 3 of the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP). This was opened to traffic on the section from Villiers to Père Lachaise .

The station has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m. Under an elliptical vaulted ceiling, it has side platforms on two parallel tracks, the side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse. The ceiling and the walls are tiled in white.

The only access is in the middle of the Rue de Madrid, not far from the Place de l'Europe. It was designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style.

vehicles

Line 3 was equipped with four-axle vehicles on bogies from the start . They were later replaced by Sprague-Thomson trains , which ran there until 1967. In that year, Line 3 was the first to receive the new MF 67 series , which runs classically on steel rails . The trains, which were renovated between 2005 and 2008, will continue to be in service there in 2020; from 2028 they are to be replaced by vehicles from the MF 19 series.

Web links

Commons : Europe (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. 100 .
  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. 165 .
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  4. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 86.
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 168.
  6. ↑ Jean-Gabriel Bontinck: Métro: ligne par ligne, découvrez quand les nouvelles arriveront rames. In: Le Parisien . April 11, 2019, accessed on June 7, 2020 (Fri-FR).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 44 ″  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 21 ″  E