Simplon (Métro Paris)
 Simplon
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| place | Paris XVIII |
| opening | May 14, 1908 |
The Metro Station Simplon is a station of Line 4 of the Paris Métro .
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 du Simplon which crosses it.
Surname
The name is derived from the Rue du Simplon. This is again named after the 2,009 m high Simplon Pass in the Valais Alps , where Napoleon had a military road built, which was opened in 1807.
history
The first section of line 4 from Porte de Clignancourt to Châtelet was opened on April 21, 1908 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP). The Simplon station was subsequently put into operation on May 14, 1908, until then the trains drove through without stopping.
On the night of April 20-21, 1944, the station was hit by Allied bombs on the nearby Dépôt de La Chapelle railway depot . This led to the collapse of part of the vaulted ceiling.
On 6 August 2005, a smoke under the last car was one direction in the station Porte de Clignancourt retracted MP-59 discovered -Zugs. The fire spread quickly and also hit the train on the opposite track. It took the fire brigade more than an hour to contain the fire, and 19 people suffered slight smoke inhalation. The station was only reopened in February 2006 after renovation work.
description
The originally 75 m long station was extended to 90 m in the mid-1960s and converted for operation with rubber-tired trains . It lies under an elliptical , white-tiled vault, the side walls of which follow the curvature of the ellipse. The two main tracks are flanked by two side platforms.
Two entrances, of which the eastern one is marked by a mast with a yellow “M” in a double circle, are located on either side of the Boulevard Ornano at the level of the rue Joseph Dijon which flows into it. There is also another exit with an escalator.
vehicles
The vehicles on Line 4 run on nitrogen-filled rubber tires that roll on chassis beams. Six-car trains of the MP 59 series replaced the five-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson type that ran on rails between 1966 and 1967 . The MP 89 CC series currently operates on Line 4 .
Remarks
- ↑ The side walls of the stations built by the competing company Nord-Sud run in a straight line vertically
- ↑ 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 . Paris 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. 200 .
- ↑ 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. 183 f .
- ↑ Clive Lamming: Le métro parisien 1900–1945 . Éditions Atlas, Évreux 2011, ISBN 978-2-7312-4739-8 , pp. 43 .
- ^ Julian Pepinster: Le métro de Paris . Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-918758-12-9 , p. 226 f .
- ^ 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 Clignancourt ← Porte de Clignancourt |
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Marcadet - Poissonniers Mairie de Montrouge → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 36.2 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 53.5" E