Rome (Paris Metro)

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Metro-M.svg Rome
Metro de Paris - Ligne 2 - Rome 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 02Paris Metro 2.svg
place Paris VIII , XVII
opening November 6, 1902
Art nouveau style entrance designed by Hector Guimard
Daylight-lit area behind an outgoing MF 67 train , 2008

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

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier de l'Europe in the 8th arrondissement with the Quartier des Batignolles in the 17th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard de Batignolles at the level of the rue de Moscou that flows into it.

Surname

Many streets in the neighboring Quartier de l'Europe bear the names of European cities. Although the Rue de Moscou is closer, the station was named after the Rue de Rome, which owes its name to the Italian capital Rome and is located across the apron of the Saint-Lazare train station .

History and description

The first extension of Line 2 North Étoile (since 1970: Charles de Gaulle - Etoile ) to Anvers the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) was taken on October 7, 1902 in operation. The Rome station was opened on November 6, 1902, until then the trains ran through without stopping. The addition "North" was dropped on October 14, 1907, and the line has only been numbered 2 since then.

Since the Métro crosses the “Tranchée des Batignolles”, a cut in the terrain with the tracks leading to the Saint-Lazare train station, immediately to the west, the Rome station is just below the road surface. The horizontal ceiling made of iron girders is broken through by a rectangular light shaft, so daylight falls into the central station area. The 75 m long station has two side platforms on two main tracks. It has only one exit that leads to the west at the confluence of Rue Boursault in the median of Boulevard de Batignolles. Hector Guimard designed it at the time in the style of Art Nouveau .

Tranchée des Batignolles

Initially, the eight railway tracks to the Saint-Lazare train station were in four parallel tunnels, which the metro line crossed. In the years 1922/23 three of the "Tunnels des Batignolles" were demolished, the tracks are now in the open cut Tranchée des Batignolles. Since then, the road and metro, the latter housed beneath the carriageway, have crossed the railway on a joint bridge structure .

vehicles

Initially, trains made up of eight two-axle cars with wooden superstructures, consisting of six sidecars and a railcar at each end, were used. From 1914 to 1981 line 2 was used by 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 vehicles of the MF 01 series have been used in the Rome station since 2008 , now exclusively.

Web links

Commons : Rome (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. 187 .
  2. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
  3. ^ 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. 152 .
  4. ^ Christoph Groneck: Metros in France . 1st edition. Robert Schwandl, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936573-13-1 , p. 14 .
  5. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 150.
  6. ↑ Jean Tricoire: op. Cit. P. 154.
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