Ourcq (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svg Ourcq
Metro de Paris - Ligne 5 - Ourcq 03.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 05Paris Metro 5.svg
place 19th arrondissement
opening October 12, 1942
An MF 67 to Bobigny entering the Ourcq station, 2010
Access with Dervaux candelabra

The metro station Ourcq is an underground station of Line 5 of the Paris Métro .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier du Pont-de-Flandres and the Quartier d'Amérique in the 19th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways below the Avenue Jean Jaurès, east of which the Petite Ceinture railway line passes under it .

Surname

It is named after the Rue de l'Ourcq, which joins the avenue Jean Jaurès not far from the station and crosses the Canal de l'Ourcq , which leads from the Ourcq to Paris . The Ourcq is a tributary of the Marne and was the scene of several battles during the First World War .

History and description

In 1936 it was decided to extend Métrolinie 5 (then as line 5bis) in a north-easterly direction and started in 1939. The 3840 meter long section from Gare du Nord to Église de Pantin with the Ourcq underground station went into operation on October 12, 1942.

The station has side platforms under an elliptical vaulted ceiling on two parallel tracks. Like the majority of Paris metro stations, it is 75 meters long. The ceiling and walls are tiled in white, the side walls follow the curvature of the ellipse.

At the northeast end of the station, two exits lead to street level on both sides of Avenue Jean Jaurès. They are marked by candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the style of Art Deco .

vehicles

In 1978 the Sprague-Thomson trains originally operating there were replaced by those of the MF 67 series. The first vehicles of the MF 01 series hit the track in 2011 and replaced their predecessors completely by 2013.

Surroundings

Canal de l'Ourcq on the Quai de la Marne

Remarks

  1. ↑ 5bis corresponds to the German 5a
  2. ↑ White tiles were best suited to reflect the light from the initially weak lighting

Web links

Commons : Ourcq (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. 155 .
  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. 197 .
  3. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 198.
  4. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
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