Petite Ceinture: New Abandoned Section Now Open & New Replacement Line Under Construction

[@nitro5401]

The jazz club is called La Gare, it's very good quality music and you pay "au chapeau", meaning you pay what you want. I went there so many times! Hope it reopens soon...

[@michaelfokias]

I might visit Paris just for this Jazz club. How cool

[@waerlogauk]

Tim, Tom Scott and the Map Men in one day, brilliant!

[@petero6471]

"It provides many spaces for local artists to express themselves." HILARIOUS !!!

[@thoughtengine]

If you mean "many spaces for local scumbags' pissing contests."

[@Richardincancale]

I am an artist based ten minutes away - I shall certainly visit and use it as inspiration!

[@jimififul]

Just what I thought. "A space for local vandals to defile historic buildings."

[@900108Chale]

@@jimififul You just gave us the definition of: "Contemporary (f)Art."

[@marcel1372]

HILARIOUS one, Peter O ! ! !

[@t0n0k0]

Oh my,,😳 Railway Station named Rosa Parks in Paris. I definitely didn't know that nor expected it. Good to know.

[@EmyrDerfel]

This needs a Tim video.

[@AnnabelSmyth]

@@EmyrDerfel It does indeed - also, all the tram stops that are named for women, which is great, as I think only Louise Michels is on the métro "proper".

[@elleryeggen9678]

IKR?!! "Rosa Parks Line E." Spectacular!

[@RomanoPRODUCTION]

Communist invasion

[@toddnolastname4485]

Somebody's doing some serious virtue signaling.

[@TheSam1902]

I was in that park when it was still under construction ! And indeed, it's a great walk from Porte de Charenton to Rosa Parks ! You have to get through two tunnels starting from Maraicher: the one from Maraicher to Parc de Belleville and then there is another smaller one from Belleville to Buttes Chaumont. Also, from inside the Buttes Chaumont it's possible to get down onto the dissused railway portion and I once met a violonist filming a clip there, and another time some sort of large summer camp group of kids lol. There's also an amazing arched bridge over that section of the tracks at the intersection of Rue de Crimee and Rue Manin (north of the park).

[@officialmcdeath]

Le Ferrovipathe is an excellent KZbin channel - glad to hear you recommend him \m/

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

Thanks Tim, for providing hope for the future and the humor with which sustain ourselves until it arrives. I cannot wait...for your next video.

[@duckydashcam751]

Great little areas that nobody would know about if you didn't show them. Definitely going to visit when I go to France!

[@fb1880]

It's pretty famous in France if you like street art..

[@eekee6034]

That building in the thumbnail! It looks like a total mess until suddenly, you see the beautiful face! Only in France; I love it. :)

[@Leebpascal1]

1:48 I think you mixed up the canal de l'ourcq which the petite ceinture pass over, and the bassin de la villette, wich is hundreds of meters more southern, after the Pont de Crimée

[@TheTimTraveller]

Hmm... yes, I think you are correct! It's strange because I am sure I have heard people refer to this short section of the canal de l'ourcq - between the bassin de la villette, and the junction with the canal saint denis - as the "canal de la villette". But I guess they were wrong

[@Leebpascal1]

@@TheTimTraveller I'm hearing it sometimes. The only "official" use I found is for the holiday inn express - canal de la villette, just near the lift bridge

[@TheTimTraveller]

@@Leebpascal1 ahhh that's probably where I got it from! I walk past that quite often

[@Foddeur]

Ah, the EOLE! Recognised it from the get-go with those buildings with the circular windows in the background at 0:05. Had no idea the Petite Ceinture was in the same area as the line!

[@BenSenneck92]

2:10 the circle of life, nice 👍

[@dryroasted5599]

My gratitude to my favorite European for his willingness and skill at entertaining us adventure-starved fans. Thank you.

[@DetroitMicroSound]

Look up "Dequindre Cut" in Detroit. We're nodding at one-another, Paris, and the D. 😉

[@bigbrowntau]

Thanks again Tim for another entertaining video. I"m sure I speak for many of us in saying we really appreciate the effort you're putting in, doing your best to produce content given the restrictions you have on travel. Stay safe, and looking forward to the next video when you're ready and safe enough to make it.

[@asdmcc2]

I was in Paris last week for a trip and although I didn't get to La Petite Ceinture, I did manage Buttes-Chaumont and what a wonderful park that is. The Belvedere was off limits due to rock fall risk but we had a great walk around. Thanks for showing me that there are other parts of Paris worth a visit! Also I learned a new word - 'flâneur'. My daughter's english teacher had used it in her class and my daughter used it in a comment on a photo of me and my cousin watching the world go by on Rue des Capucines. Merci. Les Flâneurs Écossais.

[@Nyctarath]

Hearing your perfect french with your british accent is a candy for my french ears.

[@ebenizerb.schlestertrappdu6943]

YOU stay safe, my friend. We need more videos like this one...

[@xouxoful]

There’s still a (long term) project to reopen this section for rail service, as an extension for line T8, starting at Rosa Parks.

[@SaturnCanuck]

Thanks. Stay safe and healthy and have a great Christmas

[@marcelmoulin3335]

Quel grand plaisir! Merci. Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année! Je vous envoie de meilleurs voeux des Pays-Bas.

[@kittymervine6115]

I hope not 2025!!! We miss you Tim! My husband and I are, "Is there a new Tim?"

[@alcaulique8358]

I am a native french speaker but now whenever I read Petite Ceinture. I read it with your accent...

[@heybagley]

1:05 Love the architecture of these tall buildings in the "banlieue", I guess.

[@invock]

Not exactly banlieue, this is close from the suburbs but still "intra-muros" (meaning "inside the walls", even though said walls have almost entirely disappeared nowadays).

[@neilbain8736]

Given the space issues in Paris, its amazing that it has survived for so long intact and abandoned. J'aime La Petite Cienture.

[@joehoe222]

One Hooray for slow bureaucracy that saved it XD

[@unlapras9365]

In fact, the Petite Ceinture has only been abandoned since 1991. From 1934 to 1991, it was still in use for freight trains bypassing Paris. Even if most of the infrastructure has been preserved, some parts have been demolished anyway due to bad political choices, whichs means it will never be possible to ride the entire loop again :(

[@neilbain8736]

@@unlapras9365 That explains why where the track remained, it clearly was disused, but didn't look like 80 years worth of neglect.

[@cpfodarkvader]

I saw the first image of the video and I was like "wait, i know that sad place" and sure enough, I used to walk there 4 times a day to go to and from my workplace just next to it. It's wild to see it after covid because it actually got ... a lot cleaner.

[@ColinH1973]

Lovely diversion from the current grim reality. Thanks Tim, you are a star!

[@PodgyAsthmatic]

Excellent update, thanks. This little line is fascinating, I'd love to see more so cant wait for further updates. Keep it up, thanks.

[@FrauWNiemand]

I love those great bonus videos. even pariseans might find something they didn't knew before. I really get happy every time a new Tim video comes out.

[@jeankelly2011]

Même les vidéos les plus banales comme celui-ci sont très intéressant quand tu les présentes. Je ne me lasse jamais.

[@ThePixel1983]

Hey, I cycled under the bridge across the Bassin de la Villette yesterday and thought of this video! Some parisians already seem to... have opened the bridge. Totally legally, for sure.

[@marcel1372]

these buildings look crazy i got a tingle of surprise when you first panned up and it was just towers of zigs and zags

[@greenbriar07]

Thanks for taking us along on these mini-tours around the neighborhood :)

[@mainlywalks2932]

Great video, all these railway walks got me doing all the London Ones...

[@IowaTrainGay]

This is so neat! Ever since I heard about New York's High-line, I thought it would be neat if these cities put in miniature railways along the bike/walking paths. This would give people another attraction along the path and also you could have pub crawl trains and stuff like that recognizing and celebrating the railway history of it. Very neat!

[@nathanwulf]

Last time i went abroad was to paris a year ago - as there were transport strikes on i spent a day following bits of the P.C route........maybe once we can travel again Ill check out that new bit! (Loved the shot of those white block apartments)

[@Cycliberte]

I’d love a collab with Le Ferrovipathe so much!

[@philrabe910]

How ever did you know that I'm a Huge B1M fan? Next to the Traveling Tim, bien sur.

[@nickauclair1477]

I love the irony. Great video.

[@LadyLexyStarwatcher]

If push comes to push Tim I will gladly watch an other video on the apartment flat with the highest density of Tim Travelers in the world. Stay safe!

[@Aeyekay0]

Nice, now I want to check out the jazz bar is I ever make it to Paris

[@guyr.6053]

Great video, Tim! If you ever come to Tel Aviv, a new linear park along an old railway line to Jerusalem has just opened, and you can also visit its' counterpart at the other end in Jerusalem :)

[@barvdw]

That's a pretty interesting area. A couple of years ago, I won tickets to a concert of the Brussels Philharmonic in La Vilette's Cité de la Musique. I quite liked wandering around there, and have been back since for more concerts. If you ever need a guide for Brussels, I just so happen to have the right friend for that, and would happily trundle along :-)

[@cabe_bedlam]

I always enjoy the pun piano music covers.

[@pwhitewick]

....well how did I miss this video!....

[@AnnabelSmyth]

Paris comes out of heavy restrictions just as London goes into them.... sigh.... thanks for this; the PC always fascinated me when I lived in Paris in the 1970s - never quite understood why it was closed.

[@freewal]

Political reasons. Bad reasons. There is an association to protect it and they push for an alternate transportation project which has 0% of chance to be realised with the current majority in Paris. They have a KZbin channel if you are interested.

[@jnicolas92]

Hey Tim, thanks for this video, it's cool to see the Petite Ceinture railway focused on KZbin. Just a slight imprecision though: it seemed to me that you said the Pont de Flandre and the Petite Ceinture closed in 1934; actually, only the passenger trains stopped in 1934, but the line remained open to freight trains late until 1994 😉

[@MisterMotel]

2:01 that hurts :( I miss Paris, go there every year.

[@pancitw]

babe wake up, new tim traveller video

[@northeastoutrider2124]

Seems like a nice copy of the highline in New York City. Quite a nice attraction. Interesting choice of names as well.

[@TravellerYT]

Very interesting videos and your narration is very good! Greetings from Copenhagen, Denmark - Maxi and Maro :-D

[@tim3609]

You mentioning the B1M channel is oddly accurate. I found your channel through Jay Foreman who I discovered through Tom Scott and one of those led me to the B1M and Geoff Marshall.

[@lisez2098]

I am the other way around - I found Jay Foreman and Tom Scot (and Half-Asleep Chris ) via Tim ‘s channel. :)

[@MaximumEfficiency]

BLM? Organized and funded by George Soros ;)

[@PineappleSkip]

I found your channel through Jay Foreman and/or Geoff Marshall. KZbin then spammed me with the B1M and Tom Scott.

[@svenlakemeier]

The B1M is just copying information together and reads it out to stock footage. Why is this popular on KZbin?

[@manfredpseudowengorz]

the graffiti on the top left part of the jazz club wall - wow.

[@reuben8140]

1:06 I'd like to see more tower blocks with funky designs like this, much better to look at. Are these new builds or retrofitted with cladding?

[@TheTimTraveller]

Pretty sure they were designed like that. Not sure exactly when they date from - I'd guess 80s/90s, but maybe someone who knows better than me will come along and let us know

[@stekikun6854]

@@TheTimTraveller The whole 'Cité Michelet', as it is called, was built in the very late 60's. If you want to see some more... audacious ^^ architecture, the so-called "Orgues des Flandres" buildings are just nearby, next to the Crimée station. Cheers!

[@KingRCT3]

Le Ferrovipathe is a great channel, nice shootout!

[@AnnabelSmyth]

Except he's gone to university and isn't active any more, which is a great pity.

[@KingRCT3]

@@AnnabelSmyth Aww, bummer :(

[@AnnabelSmyth]

@@KingRCT3 I expect he'll come back when he has more time and when lockdown is over. Hope so, anyway.

[@Cycliberte]

He’ll come back next summer if everything goes well

[@VedranRodic433]

I hope you go back to traveling i have watched many of your videos and i really like them.

[@sinansn6499]

Great video thank you for sharing

[@O-P-96]

Good video. Also, the sister line of "La Petite Ceinture", known as "La Grande Ceinture" (which you mentioned in a previous video) is also slowly being reopened for a tram-train, for at least 3 different lines.

[@TheTimTraveller]

Ah cool! Well I guess I won't be running out of Paris video ideas any time soon...

[@equilat]

The big difference between "La Petite Ceinture" and "La Grande Ceinture" is the second is still mostly opened for rail traffic (a lot of freight trains, RER C and a few TGVs depending sections). However, a part of the western section, which was effectively disused is beeing partially reopened for a Tram-Train (T13). So no greenway there :p

[@Gautier-cw9bu]

@@equilat the northern section is also part of the T11 (although I think it uses separate rails) and the southern part used by the RER c will be partially integrated in the T12

[@HenrysAdventures]

I'm going to need a weekend in Paris, just to walk abandoned railways, not exactly romantic but fun!

[@TheNgandrew]

Great video. Really interesting. Those talented local artists eh?

[@georgobergfell]

The B1M is a truely fantastic channel!

[@targaR32]

Thank you!

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

A piece of Paris people do not know about. If I ever visit France, I must walk this

[@iaw7406]

You would probably snap the rails

[@cw_uk]

the music at the end.... ahhhhh the sound of TV in the 90's.... used to watch Wish you were here sat on my mothers knee lol :D

[@robertwilloughby8050]

I'm surprised you were allowed to watch it as a youngster, as it was known as "Wish There Was Boobs" in my house, because of all the gratuitous shots of topless holidaymakers!😅

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Wait, they named a station after Rosa Parks? That's pretty cool! And you pretty much had the disused railway to yourself

[@aymericsauzet5077]

There is also a lot of highschool named Rosa Parks in france

[@nojam75]

Wow, I'm really touched that they would name a Paris station after Rosa Parks. "We wanted at least 50% female names. There has been much debate, especially with RATP, which favors existing place names, but for Rosa Parks there was a consensus: this is necessary for a tram station, it is a strong symbol" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa-Parks_station

[@LadyLexyStarwatcher]

@@nojam75 That is cool! It is like how we have an Anne Frank monument here in Idaho. Apparently only one in the USA.

[@irgendwer1409]

@@LadyLexyStarwatcher thats awesome!

[@ixlnxs]

You ain't seen nothing yet. From Rosa Parks you can take a tram which calls at Ella Fitzgerald, Colette Besson, Delphine Seyrig, Adrienne Bolland and Marie de Miribel - all of them tram stops named after women (or rather: named after nearby streets named after these women). On other tram lines there are stations named after (streets named after) Alexandra David-Néel, Maryse Bastié, Suzanne Lenglen and Jacqueline Auriol.

[@TechnoViel]

I think this was quite a proper video actually - except for the missing cheerful "Hello!" at the beginning 😉

[@MrGreatplum]

I’m a simple man, I see a Tim Traveller notification pop up and I stop what I’m doing to watch a video about a footpath on an old railway line in Paris! Great stuff!

[@pgchase4578043026]

I note the opening (6th July 2022) of Paris' Tram-Train T13 which in part uses renewed tracks of the former Grande Ceinture Ouest railway line with left-hand (railway network) running and also some right-hand street running. I would be interested in how they do the switchover between the two sections. This reminds me both of your video of the ill-fated metro in Charleroi, Belgium and your video on the Grande Ceinture Ouest railway line. Maybe you would like to investigate this new line.

[@retrogameon]

What goes down at Noisy Champs?

[@unlapras9365]

They are building a new interchange station between line A and line 15 and 16 of the Grand Paris Express !

[@retrogameon]

@@unlapras9365 cool!

[@keithphilbin3054]

Noisy Champs sounds like a porn star name.

[@nitt3rz]

I like how the Paris Metro has simply numbered their lines, instead of giving them odd names like the London Underground.

[@ixlnxs]

While you are at it, could you do some videos on suburbs which are worth a visit? I plan on going to places like Sèvres, Saint Cloud and Boulogne-Billancourt for the Porcelain museum, another museum and a fancy garden, but I'm sure you have encountered endearing places in unlikely communes like Issy, Créteil, Saint-Ouen or Bobigny?

[@freewal]

Hahaha you are comparing poach areas with more middle or popular ones.

[@ixlnxs]

@@freewal Yes I am. I have found very beautiful things in unlikely places before.

[@GreatGloves]

Greetings from Finland! Merry Xmas to you👍

[@janetchristian]

The fact that they have a Rosa Parks station is just as fascinating as the disused station.

[@unlapras9365]

I litteraly went there last week ! 😅

[@AJUEA]

Yes! A new video. Thanks Tim.

[@nekrosoft13]

"daily permitted exercise" sounds like fun....

[@ericmosher6969]

thamks

[@carolynkayhanson2524]

Well gosh, Tim, one of my favorite things about your videos is the way you always say, "Hello!" at the beginning. And you didn't this time. And I missed it. Just sayin' :) A good video tho, as always, and I hope you are well.

[@TheTimTraveller]

Don't worry, it'll be back! When there isn't a hello at the beginning, it just means it's going to be a little bonus video instead of a normal one. I like to lower expectations right from the start :)

[@PineappleSkip]

I too was alarmed at no trademark Heellloooooo, and first wondered if an impostor from Mr Plod had hijacked your channel 🤨. You could always do a sotto voce Helloo for a bonus.

[@timm9631]

Love your videos! Stay safe!

[@unlapras9365]

Unfortunately the section between Pont de Flandre and Buttes Chaumont will probably not be open to the public in a foreseeable future due to the bad state of the infrastructure which would need expensive upgrade works to meet safety requirements. However, there is a project to extend tram line T8 to Rosa Parks and then use the eastern part of the Petite Ceinture and end up at Buttes Chaumont or even Porte de Vincennes. However, this will probably not happen before 2035.

[@akmalkausaralhafiz798]

What about the NYC South fourth Street station

[@TravelSignal]

You really should do a bilingual collab with Le Ferrovipath...

[@HB-bl5mn]

Hey Tim-Traveller. I am enjoying your clips a lot. Should you be near Vienna again one day, you probably would enjoy the Mariazellerbahn, the Aspangbahn and also Park Laxenburg with its many interesting details and vanished attractions. Also Kaiserbahnhof Laxenburg. Check it out.

[@jocelynhurtubise2420]

intéressant Merci!

[@KriegerDelfin24]

I looked at it on Google Maps and was surprised how Long it is both ways. Would be a perfekt Line Over the earth to Bad its closed.

[@Jasonwolf1495]

Good on France for acknowledging the value of weedy plants. They may not be what people want, but its not all about us.

[@TheTimTraveller]

Indeed - and this is the perfect place to do it as well. I imagine there might be more of a fuss if they did it on the Champs Elysees

[@TheZapan99]

In reality, public gardening services all around France have stopped working since last spring, and are currently paid to do nothing. Weeds were so high at the end of summer, they actually caused traffic accidents by hiding crossing vehicles.

[@Hepad_]

@@TheZapan99 never understood why we value weeds less than say, grass. Some are edible, some smell good, some look good.

[@cownenl252]

What about the grand ceinture? Some parts of it are abandoned!

[@growingup15]

"Brand new Section" "Graffiti everywhere" XD

[@Acceleronics]

First time I've ever been in the top ten! I always enjoy your videos, Tim!

[@fdk7014]

Rosa Parks station? In France? I'm all for a building named after RP in let's say Washington DC but what did she ever do for France?

[@ZGryphon]

Why does the Paris Métro, of all things, have a station named after Rosa Parks? I mean, I don't _object,_ but it seems kind of incongruous. Like the New York subway having a stop named after Alfred Dreyfus.

[@illyasvielemiya9059]

Hey Tim for next daily government permitted excersize, would you jog around where you lives and try to spot interesting things? I never been to Paris before, but your previous video always show every piece of furniture and every building have something interesting on them. But you always try to only see them in a thematic things or related topic. I wondered if you just go out and jog around, will you find a variation of historical or unique stuff? Maybe you will find a cute cat! who knows! cat always get more views.

[@Sim0nTrains]

Brilliant update of the Petite Ceinture, it is a shame your in a lockdown at the moment but really love how disused Pont De Flandre is. 👍

[@icewink7100]

Is it named after the American civil rights activist Rosa Parks? Or is there no relation?

[@varana]

It's named after that Rosa Parks, yes.

[@icewink7100]

@@varana that's really cool!

[@TheTimTraveller]

Yep! The station, the plaza outside it, and the adjoining shopping and residential development are all named after her.

[@wilfridwibblesworth2613]

They should've named it *_"Martin Luther King Jr. would've hated BLM & everything they stand for Station"_* just to address all the very serious problems with faux anti-racists we are bombarded with today through globalist-controlled media.

[@icewink7100]

@@wilfridwibblesworth2613 uhhhhhhhhh that's an absurd thing to believe, and an even more absurd thing to say completely unprompted.

[@the21stcenturytrolleydodge31]

Hey Tim, if the Jazz club "la Gare" wants a prop locomotive; tell them to shoot me a message I would love to help if they are interested.

[@kentakahashi9635]

The circle of life

[@jwvdvuurst]

I added 'le petit ceinture' to my google maps list of places where I want to go to. But I am affraid you are a bit over-optimistic in your hopes that you can visit places different than Paris soon. I think it will be indeed 2025 when I will be able to visit Paris, from Amsterdam, again.

[@mizu_the_floatzel]

This sound like Toronto doing it expansions

[@jonahchaser27]

I really love your videos

[@truckerallikatuk]

I'd like @simplyrailway to cover the new metro parisienne...