Chemin Vert station

Chemin Vert (French pronunciation: [ʃəmɛ̃ vɛʁ]) is a station of the Paris Métro on Line 8, named after the Rue de Chemin Vert.

Chemin Vert
Paris Métro station
General information
Location	3rd arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°51′24″N 2°22′06″E
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	5 May 1931 (1931-05-05)
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Saint-Sébastien–Froissart towards Balard Line 8 Bastille towards Pointe du Lac
Location Chemin Vert Location within Paris

View of the Canal Saint-Martin at Paris (Alfred Sisley - Musée d'Orsay, 1870)

Location

The station is located under Boulevard Beaumarchais, between Rue Saint-Gilles and Rue du Chemin-Vert. Oriented along a north-south axis, it is sandwiched between the Saint-Sébastien-Froissart and Bastille stations.

History

The station opened on 5 May 1931 with the extension of the line from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Charenton. The Rue de Chemin Vert (green path) follows the route of an old footpath through the middle of market gardens. In 1868 the Rue de Chemin Vert was extended from the Rue des Amandiers-Popincourt to the Barrier des Amandiers, a gate on the former Wall of the Farmers-General.

As part of the RATP's Renouveau du Metro program, the station was completely renovated, starting with the platforms in 2001, then it was the turn of the corridors opening on 18 December 2006. The decoration of the quays in the interwar style of the former CMP was thus renewed and completed with new lighting, but the advertising frames with plant motifs were recreated in brown earthenware and no longer in honey colour as in the original.

On 20 March 2018, half of the nameplates on the station's platforms were temporarily replaced by the RATP to celebrate the arrival of spring, in parallel with the distribution of flowers to passengers, as in five other stations. The new plaques depict a green landscape crossed by a path, where a wooden sign bearing the name "Chemin Vert" was depicted, referring to the origin of the name of the Rue du Chemin-Vert.

In 2020, 685,294 passengers entered this station.

Passenger services

Access

The station has two entrances, each consisting of a fixed staircase adorned with a balustrade and a Dervaux-type candelabra:

• Access 1 Boulevard Beaumarchais / Rue Saint-Gilles - Place des Vosges - leading to nos. 59 and 61 of the boulevard;
• Access 2 Boulevard Beaumarchais / Rue du Chemin-Vert - located to the right of nos. 52 and 54 of the same boulevard.

Station layout

Street Level

B1	Mezzanine for platform connection

Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	toward Balard	← toward Balard (Saint-Sébastien – Froissart)
	toward Pointe du Lac	→ toward Pointe du Lac (Bastille) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Platforms

Chemin Vert is a station with a standard configuration. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks located in the centre and the vault is elliptical. The decoration is in the style used for most metro stations. The lighting strips are white and rounded in the Gaudin style of the metro revival of the 2000s, and the bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the walls, the vault and the tunnel exits. The advertising frames are made of earthenware with brown plant motifs (a shade that did not originally exist) and the name of the station is also made of earthenware in the interwar style of the original CMP. The platforms are equipped with wooden slatted benches painted purple.

It is one of the few stations in the network whose ceramic decoration in the "CMP" style is no longer original, having been completely reconstructed during the 2006 renovation.

Bus connections

The station is served by lines 29, 69 and 91 of the RATP Bus Network and, at night, by lines N01 and N02 of the Noctilien network.

Nearby

• Canal Saint-Martin
• Place des Vosges with Square Louis-XIII in its centre and Maison de Victor Hugo at its south-east end
• Musée Picasso
• Jardin Arnaud-Beltrame

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Sources

• Roland, Gérard (2003). Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram. Éditions Bonneton.