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A Walk along the Paris inner city Railway, abandoned since 1934

  I spent my Saturday evening, maintaining a strategic distance from the Parisian summer swarms and tiptoeing along the train tracks of the "Little Belt" railroad (La Petite Ceinture), an enduring relic of a former period, shut since 1934; open for wonderful summer walks on the off chance that you look sufficiently hard for a path in … 


Worked in 1862, the Petite Ceinture is an incredible method to understand Paris from with an improved point of view as the railroad's scaffolds peep over the lanes each couple of hundred yards. The tracks keep running along the backs of craftsman ateliers which you can't see from the road. 


The railroad was a round course (consequently "the little belt"), associating the primary train stations of Paris inside the old braced city dividers. This is one of the old stations, Gare de Charonne, which has since been changed over into a bistro and rock'n'roll music scene, La Flèche d'Or. Obviously when the métro was fabricated, it was to be the finish of the Petite Ceinture. 


Over 150 years after the fact, the Petite Ceinture is brilliantly embellished, both by the spray painting and 200+ types of widely varied vegetation that have surpassed the wooden tracks set up under Baron Haussmann. The passages of the out of date railroad are additionally said to have the most straightforward passageways into the Paris mausoleums. 

Will this truly be right amidst Paris?! 

Authoritatively forbidden to the general population, the national rail benefit SNCF has left the tracks to a great extent immaculate, similarly as they were for every one of these years. 

Perhaps next time you can find that passageway into the sepulchers …



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