Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture

Local nameLigne de Petite Ceinture
Location1st arrondissement of Paris, France

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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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceinture

Address 60 Voie Georges Pompidou, Paris 75001, France

Coordinates 48°51'48.75" N 2°19'17.569" E

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