Lamarck - Caulaincourt (Paris Métro)
 Lamarck - Caulaincourt
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| place | Paris XVIII |
| opening | October 31, 1912 |
The metro station Lamarck - Caulaincourt is an underground station Linie12 the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located below the Butte Montmartre hill in the Quartier des Grandes-Carrières in the 18th arrondissement of Paris . It is located under Rue Pierre-Dac at the intersection of Rue Lamarck and Rue Caulaincourt.
Surname
Rue Lamarck and Rue Caulaincourt give it its name. The natural scientist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744–1829) was the first to present a fully formulated theory of evolution and is considered the founder of modern zoology of invertebrates . Armand de Caulaincourt (1773-1827) was a general , ambassador and foreign minister.
At first the station was only called "Lamarck", later "Lamarck (Caulaincourt)" before it was given its current name. The name part Caulaincourt is not written on the station signs in the underground station.
history
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. On October 31, 1912, the Lamarck station went into operation when the northern extension of the line from Pigalle to Jules Joffrin was opened. After the Nord-Sud in the previous year in the previously competing Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP), line A was renamed to line 12 on March 27, 1931.
description
Although the station is the highest point on line 12, at 24 m below street level it is also one of the lowest on the metro. Access is via two shafts, one of which houses two spiral staircases, the other two elevators. The access structure is between and under the stairs on the slope of Rue Pierre-Dac at their intersection with Rue Lamarck. The candelabra erected in 1910 in front of the entrance with the curved sign pointing to the Métro is a unique piece only found there.
Under an elliptical vault there are two side platforms on two main tracks. The station, which describes a gentle curve, 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 underground stations in the north-south, the station was built a little more splendid than the stations of the CMP.
After the station was modernized in the post-war period, it has been presented in the original North-South decor since 2006. The sign METROPOLITAIN above the entrance bore the words NORD SUD until 1931.
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.
Surroundings
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . Bonneton, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 128 .
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 295.
- ↑ Mark Ovenden: Paris Underground . Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-311639-4 , pp. 37 .
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Mark Ovenden: op. Cit. P. 36.
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Jules Joffrin ← Front Populaire |
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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 21 ″ N , 2 ° 20 ′ 17 ″ E