Parigo Express answers questions from Ile -de -France users every week. They are quite discreet and want to say a lot, have you already noticed the “NS” registrations on the advertising inserts of metro stations?
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These are two letters displayed on most metro advertising media. “NS” in fact designates the “North-South” company, an ancestor of the RATP which made up three embryos of current lines at the beginning of the 20th century.
At the birth of the Paris metro, two competing companies are launching simultaneously in the construction of tunnels. The North-South company creates lines A, B and C and the Compagnie du Chemin de Metropolitan de Paris gives birth to lines 1, 2 and 3.
Initials “NS” on a frieze of the Paris metro • © Wikimedia Commons / Credits: Clicksouris
The line then linked the door of the chapel to the Porte de Versailles, the B part of the Montparnasse station, the Porte de Saint-Ouen or Clichy and line C allows you to go from the Porte de Vanves to the Montparnasse station. Journeys that have now become lines 12 and 13.
The North-South company closed after 30 years on the tracks, it was distinguished thanks to its quays and its stations better decorated and more aesthetic than competition, hence the presence of friezes worked around the advertising and flanked “NS” advertising panels.
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