Notre-Dame-des-Champs (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svg Notre-Dame-des-Champs
Paris Metro - Ligne 12 - Notre-Dame-des-Champs Station - Quais.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 12Paris Metro 12.svg
place Paris VI
opening November 5, 1910
Station sign designed with colored tiles
Original station sign under the removed panels, 2007
Northern mouth of the tunnel with directional sign MONTMARTRE
Access in the median of Boulevard Raspail

Notre-Dame-des-Champs is an underground station on line 12 of the Paris Métro .

location

The metro station is located in the Notre-Dame-des-Champs district in the 6th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways under Boulevard Raspail at the intersection with Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs .

Surname

It is named after the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. It led to the Notre-Dame-des-Champs chapel, which was built in the 10th century as the “Chapelle Notre-Dame des Vignes” on Rue Pierre-Nicole. The current Notre-Dame-des-Champs church, consecrated in 1875, was built on a different site.

history

The station was opened on 5 November 1910 when the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (north-south) the first section of its line A of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Porte de Versailles took 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.

description

Under an elliptical , white tiled vault, there are two side platforms on two main tracks. 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. Because of the overhead line originally on the north-south routes , the station is slightly higher than the CMP stations located under similar vaults. It has the original Parisian standard length of 75 m, sufficient for five-car trains.

Like the other underground stations in the north-south, the station was designed more elaborately than the stations of the CMP. After it had been clad with sheet metal panels in the meantime , it was largely restored in 2007 in the old style. Typical for the north-south are the directional signs MONTMARTRE and MONTPARNASSE above the respective tunnel mouth and the station signs made of colored tiles. The white tiled ceiling is loosened up by geometric structures made of brown tiles.

The only access is in the median of Boulevard Raspail at its intersection with Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. It largely corresponds to the original, the NORD-SUD logo was replaced by METROPOLITAIN in the early 1930s. There is also another exit with an escalator.

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

Commons : Notre-Dame-des-Champs (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 .
  2. a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 295.
  3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
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