![]() ![]() I am happy that a group of teenagers is walking behind us because the tunnel was scary. There is a cool area with some urban furniture and street art. When we exit the first tunnel (1.2 km), we are in Paris 20. ![]() The air is strange inside, so if you have breathing problems, avoid going further. However, this is not a public section, but the rails that we can see from the park are so tempting! There are three long tunnels to cross along this section, so take a pair of good shoes and a torch.Īfter some hesitation, we decide to walk into the tunnel. This is the most adventurous section, one of the few chances to explore Paris underground. You can reach the rails through a hole in the fence which follows this path. Inside Parc des Buttes Chaumont, right after the bridge crossing the rails (on the left side), there is a little path downhill. – update: the access to this tunnel is currently sealed – ![]() (non-) official access: Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris 19 Metro Station Botzaris, Line 7 bis Velib station #19.025 If you can only do one part of these abandoned railroads, we suggest this section in Paris 15. This section also keeps the historic installations while preserving flora and fauna (more than 220 species of plants and animals) installed spontaneously.Īlong the 1,3 km walk, we can see an abandoned train station, a couple of wooden chalets, and some train signs.Īs you can see in the pictures, la Petite Ceinture is also a playground for graffiti artists, and any flat surface is completely covered with colorful paintings.įinally, some information panels help us appreciate the existent flora better: grassland, coppice, wastelands, and afforestation. On this leg, the old railway track was never deferred. La Petite Ceinture Paris 15 served the Citroën factories (Parc André Citroën today) and the slaughterhouses of Vaugirard (today’s Parc Georges Brassens). Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, Abandoned Train Stations provides a fascinating pictorial journey through the little-known remnants of rail transport infrastructure from every part of the world.Access: in front of 99 rue Olivier de Serres, Paris 15 Metro Station Porte de Versailles, Line 12 Velib station #15.111 Explore Canfranc International Railway Station, once a busy mountain hub of international travel between France and Spain see the eerily empty platform at Kings Cross Thameslink, London, today a service tunnel following the station’s closure in the early 2000s examine the grandiose Michigan Central Train Station in Detroit, an historic Amtrak rail depot, and once the tallest rail station in the world marvel at the dusty, overgrown shell of Abkhazia’s once beautiful railway station in Psyrtskha, a physical legacy of the former Soviet era in the Caucasus see the disused Tiwanaku train station, situated almost 4,000 metres above sea level in the Bolivian Andes or learn about the fascinating Istvántelek Train Yard, in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, better known as the ‘Red Star train graveyard’ because of its many Soviet-era engine wrecks. Organised by continent, this book takes the reader to every corner of the globe. Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and London desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains metro stations in China that terminate in a wasteland Abandoned Train Stations looks at some of the thousands of disused station buildings, platforms, lines, tunnels, and rail yards left behind by modernity. ![]()
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