Porte de Clignancourt (Paris Métro)
 Porte de Clignancourt
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| place | Paris XVIII |
| opening | April 21, 1908 |
The metro station Porte de Clignancourt is an underground station of Line 4 of the Paris Métro and also the northern terminus of the line.
location
The station is located in the Quartier de Clignancourt in the 18th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard Ornano south of the Rue Belliard.
Surname
It is named after the Porte de Clignancourt, a former city gate in the Thiers fortification wall , construction of which began in 1841 and which was razed from 1919 . The gate was named after the nearby hamlet of Clignancourt, which was incorporated into Paris in 1860. Its name may derive from an estate that was called Clinuricurtis in Gallo-Roman times .
history
The station went into operation on April 21, 1908 when the first section of Line 4 from Porte de Clignancourt to Châtelet was opened. It was originally 75 m long, in the mid-1960s it was extended to 90 m.
Immediately to the north of the station, the tunnel passes under the now disused tracks of the Petite Ceinture , where the “Boulevard Ornano” station was located at the time. Immediately afterwards the fortification wall was driven under, the turning and parking facility was already beyond the city fortifications. The Boulevards des Maréchaux run in their place today.
description
Under an elliptical, white tiled ceiling vault with curved side walls, the station has side platforms on two parallel tracks.
The three entrances lead from Boulevard Ornano to the northern end of the station. Two of them are marked by masts introduced in the 1950s that have a yellow “M” in a double ring.
To the northwest of the station there is a simple track change , followed by a single-track turning loop , which in turn is within a larger loop with three sidings. A track leads from the beginning to the nearby Ateliers de Saint-Ouen workshop.
vehicles
Until 1928, 5-car trains consisting of initially three twin-engine and later two four-engine railcars and sidecars ran on Line 4 . They were replaced by Sprague-Thomson trains , which were successively replaced by rubber-tired 6-car trains of the MP 59 series in 1966/67 . The MP 89 CC series is currently in use on Line 4 .
Surroundings
- The permanent flea market with fixed buildings and stalls Marché aux puces de la porte de Clignancourt et de Saint-Ouen is the world's largest antiques and flea market, with around five million visitors a year
- The Cimetière parisien de Saint-Ouen cemetery, opened in 1860, is one of the largest Parisian cemeteries, but is located outside the urban area
Remarks
- ↑ CC means "Conduite Conducteur" (driver-controlled), in contrast to the driverless type MP 89 CA
Web links
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 182 .
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 172 .
- ↑ a b Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 183 f.
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 50.4 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 41.8" E