Marx Dormoy (Métro Paris)
 Marx Dormoy
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| place | Paris XVIII |
| opening | August 23, 1916 |
The metro station Marx Dormoy is an underground station Linie12 the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located on the border of the Quartier de La Chapelle and the Quartier de la Goutte-d'Or in the 18th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Rue de la Chapelle north of the Rue Ordener and the Rue Riquet.
Surname
The name is given by the section of the former Rue de la Chapelle, which follows south and was renamed Rue Marx Dormoy in 1946. The socialist politician Marx Dormoy (1888–1941) was interior minister in the Popular Front government under Léon Blum in 1936/37 . As such, he persecuted the right-wing extremist group Comité secret d'action révolutionnaire ("La Cagoule"). During the rule of the Vichy regime he was under house arrest in Montélimar and was murdered there in 1941 - presumably by former Cagoule members.
After the Rue de Torcy, which also began there, the station was called "Torcy" until May 1, 1946. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy (1665–1746) was a diplomat and foreign minister under Louis XIV .
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. On August 23, 1916, the Torcy station opened when the northern extension of the line from Jules Joffrin to Porte de la Chapelle was put into operation. After the Nord-Sud in 1930 in the previously competing Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP), line A was renamed to line 12 on March 27, 1931.
Under an elliptical vault there are two side platforms on two main tracks. The station has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, sufficient for five-car trains. Because of the overhead contact line initially 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. Like the other underground stations in the north-south, the station was designed a bit more ostentatious than the stations of the CMP. In the 1960s, the side walls were covered.
The only access is on Rue de la Chapelle near the junction with Rue Riquet. It has an ascending escalator and is marked by a mast with a yellow “M” in a double circle.
To the south of the station, the line bends in a tight 90-degree bend under Rue Ordener, behind its north end there is a simple track change .
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
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 142 .
- ↑ a b 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. 295 .
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Porte de la Chapelle ← Front Populaire |
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Marcadet - Poissonniers Mairie d'Issy → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 28 " N , 2 ° 21 ′ 36" E