Ménilmontant (Métro Paris)

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Metro-M.svg Ménilmontant
Métro de Paris - Ligne 2 - Ménilmontant 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 02Paris Metro 2.svg
place Paris XI , XX
opening January 31, 1903
Access designed by Hector Guimard in the Art Nouveau style

The metro station Ménilmontant is an underground station of Line 2 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier Saint-Ambroise in the 11th arrondissement and the Quartier du Père-Lachaise in the 20th arrondissement of Paris . It is located alongside the Boulevard de Ménilmontant, south of its intersection with the Rue Oberkampf - Rue de Ménilmontant.

Surname

The name gives the Boulevard de Ménilmontant and the Rue de Ménilmontant. The 20th arrondissement is also known as the "Arrondissement de Ménilmontant". The former hamlet of Ménilmontant was initially incorporated into Belleville and in 1860 into Paris. As early as 1224 it was mentioned in a document as Mesnil-du-mauvais-temps.

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, a burning train entered the station with no passengers, where the fire got out of control. After the station lighting went out, seven people suffocated in the thick smoke. The smoke moved through the tunnel to the nearby Couronnes station , where 75 people were killed. Two more died while trying to escape in the tunnel.

The 75 m long station lies in a gentle curve 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 the Boulevard de Charonne near the above. Crossing, it has the art nouveau decor designed by Hector Guimard .

vehicles

MF-01 train on the track towards 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 : Ménilmontant (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images

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. 143 .
  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. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 154.
  6. ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 185 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '58.4 "  N , 2 ° 23' 1.1"  E