Paris' former Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture, also colloquially known as La Petite Ceinture, was a circular railway built as a means to supply the city's fortification walls, and as a connection between Paris' railway termini. Built as two distinct 'Ceinture Syndicate' freight and 'Paris-Auteuil' passenger lines from 1851 that together formed an arc that surrounded the northern two thirds of Paris, it would become a full circle of rail around the capital when its third Ceinture Rive Gauche section was built in 1867. Serving first as a freight-only line, then developing into a passenger service, the Chemin de fer de Ceinture became Paris' first metro-like urban transport. Much-frequented until its 1900 Universal Exposition peak, the Metro appearing that year would mark the onset of the Petite Ceinture line's decline.
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