Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceinture


00:01:28 1 Origins
00:02:32 1.1 Paris before the Petite Ceinture
00:04:04 1.2 A Military idea
00:05:30 2 One Ring, Three Lines
00:05:40 2.1 I - the Syndicated 'Chemin de Fer de Ceinture' (Rive Droite)
00:08:46 2.2 II - the Ouest Company's Paris – Auteuil passenger line
00:10:30 2.3 III - the Ouest Company's 'Chemin de Fer de Ceinture Rive Gauche'
00:13:58 3 Ceinture Service
00:14:08 3.1 The early years
00:20:27 3.2 Growing pains
00:26:43 3.3 La Belle Époque
00:32:33 3.4 Decline
00:39:32 4 Local Freight, Dismantlement and Abandon
00:42:25 5 Present state and Re-use
00:44:15 5.1 Re-use by the RER C



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Paris' former Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture ('small(er) belt railway'), 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.
Mostly abandoned since its last year of passenger service in 1934, but still largely intact, its future is still the source of much debate as of 2017. Many would like to preserve the remaining stations as part of France's national heritage, while others would like to see its former path transformed into parks and communal gardens and yet others would like to see, in some form, the track and stations remaining become a functioning line once again.