-0:43 The Robinson branch being shorter, during off-peak times, the trains are often less crowded. -To have a detailed map of the tracks of the entire Parisian rail network (plus the stockage tracks) I recommend the carto-metro site (known to an English RUclipsr on transport). The Tube network is also located there. -Vitry sur seine is served by missions R (ROMI for example) and M (MONA), and sometimes missions B (BALI). That's a train every 1/4 hour,excluding works and some Sunday (because of works). -The destination above the tunnel is "the signature" of the lines belonging to the former North/South company which operated 2 lines: the current 12 and 13 (in fact 13 north and 13 south, the part between Invalides and St Lazare being more recent).The company disappeared in the 1920s. Invalides have a loop used only for service.
North South was absorbed by the CMP in 1930 due to immense debts. The part of Line 13 from Invalides to Porte de Vanves was supposed to be NS Line C but was made by the CMP in the 30s, opened in 1935 from Pte de Vanves to Bienvenüe and then extended to Invalides, overtaking the first route of Line 10 (taking Line 10 to Pte d'Auteuil in lieu of Line 8 which was extented to Balard), under the number 14. We had a Line 14 that closed in 1976 when the junction between St-Lazare and Invalides was made for Line 13 (as well as an extention to Châtillon the same year and few extentions to the North that began in the 50s to Pleyel and ended in 2008 with Les Courtilles. So Paris Metro had no Line 14 from 1976 to 1998 when the New Line 14 was opened between Madeleine and Bibliothèque.
Brilliant video Nick, I did visit Paris in 2009. There seems to be some new trains on the Metro and RER from after that though. Shame about the weather and you having been there on fashion weekend though lol.
From 2009 Mp05 series on L1, Mp14 series on L11-14-4 ,MF01 series on L2-5-9.Others are renovations and/or livery changes. No new train in B or C line.Only E line and D line this year.
I miss the Metro. I always loved it when I visited. All the tunnels are lit and there's lots to see. Paris is a small crowded city. It's population is approx 3 million and its boundary is La Peripherique, the orbital motorway on the line of the old city wall, so it's not actually that big. It's about 2/3 the size of Edinburgh. I had a map of each and it was a bit mind blowing when I noticed the 1km grid nos of Paris were less than Edinburgh. I think Edinburgh has a population of about 800,000 people. The greater Parisian conurbation is absolutely massive, though.
Funny you begin by St-Michel on RER B, the most Tube like station of the Paris Metro network. The C Line is on the very old railway linking Orsay to Austerlitz (mainline trains changed from Steam to a small electric "Salt Box" locomotive for that section. The former train station Hall is now the Orsay Museum. The B Line was built in the 70s, kinda like the Tube and it is under the Southern half of the River Seine, you can cross the River from one end to the other of the station. You should have gone to Bercy on Line 6 to transfer with Line 14 there and then go back to Bibliothèque-François Mitterand to transfer to Line C. BTW, in three months, Olympiades won't be the last stop anymore, the extention to Orly will be opened likely late June. The other way you could have done it is to get off at Chevaleret and walk the Rue du Chevaleret down to Bibliothèque station and made a U turn via Olympiades just as you did with Line B. The button in the lift says -1 because it is -1 below the street level -which, funnily enough is +1 level above real ground as the whole Massena district is built on a structure above the train tracks to Austerlitz ! The Concourse is in fact at Level -2 and the Line 14 trains at -4.
funny enough I didn't expect seeing you riding the bus 74 in my childhood neighbourhood (la fourche, and metro 13 line in it's North ends is always crowded even in weekends, banh holidays or evenings)
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Great video, you certainly got pretty lucky with those random stations you got assigned! One thing though, you should’ve mentioned at the start of they video (either at the time or edited in voiceover) that this was a challenge/race and to explain the concept of it
The reason I didn't really mention it was a race is that it Tom and I were only really doing it for fun rather than trying to get the best time. For us it was moreso just like we've had a large group of us go to Paris and we all split off to do this challenge for the day. That was my thought process anyway, might've been better to explain it more? I dunno
@@NickBadley I get that, but you still shouldve explained it more in my opinion. because most/many people already knew there was this huge trip of transport youtubers going to paris, so explaining this a bit more wouldve put it in context
Not my idea but I saw someone say ‘do a pointless journey between temple in Paris and temple in London on your way back’ (I think) which does sound like a good idea to me
That would be point to point rather than pointless journey. A Pointless Journey would be something like going between Châtelet and Les Halles, and not using Line 4. Or maybe Saint-Augustin - Saint-Lazare - Haussmann Saint-Lazare - Havre Caumartin - Auber - Opéra
Huge fan of Paris and the Metro/RER. It's a great network with a fascinating range of trains. Maybe have a go visiting some of the Tram stops on the lines dotted around. That would be an interesting challenge. BTW there is a station in Cardiff which I featured in my annual review called Whitchurch. What could you do with that? Whitchurch to Whitchurch - but which one? Thanks for this one
Heres a suggestion for a future video: Differences between the old and refurbished 1992 stock on the central line. One thing is, the motors sound different between the old 92 and the refurbished 92 stock, the old 92 stocks motor sounds like a screaming washing machine but ya gotta love it just a little bit.
What was the reasoning behind choosing those stations? I've only been to Paris for 15 hours (Saw a gig and walked around the centre before the first Eurostar back to London). I didnt like the French metro/RER, but i saw enough of the city to say I've been there! Will you do a similar video in somewhere like Berlin on it's U+S Bahn system?
So, Metro is tube and RER is Overground, roughly speaking? I've only been once; and on only 4 trains, as a change was required en rout6e between CDG Airport and our conference destination. Question is, given a map of Paris, have you any idea where you went??
RER A B,D and E Line is more Elisabeth Line , C line is more Overground. Transilien (H to U) lines is same as lines have begining at Waterloo station for exemple.
All last start metro are at 0:30am in weekdays , 1:00am in Week end (Friday night and saturday night). Fror RER, the last train in RER arrive at 1:00am/1:15 am at his last station...So the shorter the branch is, the later the last train passes. For exemple the last B train to the south is a Robinson at 1:18am at Robinson, so 1:01am at Denfert Rochereau and 0:14am at Mitry claye
Definitely don't apologise for trying to pronounce the stations the French way. Can guarantee you that a Parisian would make approximately no effort pronouncing UK stations correctly...
Glad to share the day with you partner! I can still feel being wedged in some of those trains 😵💫
Was lovely to meet you! Also funny that we crossed paths at bibliothek but didnt see each other :)
Plot twist: The reason the trains were particularly crowded today was because 10,000 people were doing the Random Station Challenge.
And even with the crowds you managed a good time! Poor Felix got saddled with me and my confusion on RER C!
Ahh yes, I wonder who won this challenge? 🤔😂
Great to see your perspective, it was great fun!
Ah two of the musketeers in "Gay Paree" with Porthos looking after D'Artagnan. French pronunciation is pretty good
-0:43 The Robinson branch being shorter, during off-peak times, the trains are often less crowded.
-To have a detailed map of the tracks of the entire Parisian rail network (plus the stockage tracks) I recommend the carto-metro site (known to an English RUclipsr on transport). The Tube network is also located there.
-Vitry sur seine is served by missions R (ROMI for example) and M (MONA), and sometimes missions B (BALI).
That's a train every 1/4 hour,excluding works and some Sunday (because of works).
-The destination above the tunnel is "the signature" of the lines belonging to the former North/South company which operated 2 lines: the current 12 and 13 (in fact 13 north and 13 south, the part between Invalides and St Lazare being more recent).The company disappeared in the 1920s. Invalides have a loop used only for service.
North South was absorbed by the CMP in 1930 due to immense debts. The part of Line 13 from Invalides to Porte de Vanves was supposed to be NS Line C but was made by the CMP in the 30s, opened in 1935 from Pte de Vanves to Bienvenüe and then extended to Invalides, overtaking the first route of Line 10 (taking Line 10 to Pte d'Auteuil in lieu of Line 8 which was extented to Balard), under the number 14. We had a Line 14 that closed in 1976 when the junction between St-Lazare and Invalides was made for Line 13 (as well as an extention to Châtillon the same year and few extentions to the North that began in the 50s to Pleyel and ended in 2008 with Les Courtilles.
So Paris Metro had no Line 14 from 1976 to 1998 when the New Line 14 was opened between Madeleine and Bibliothèque.
Brilliant video Nick, I did visit Paris in 2009. There seems to be some new trains on the Metro and RER from after that though. Shame about the weather and you having been there on fashion weekend though lol.
From 2009 Mp05 series on L1, Mp14 series on L11-14-4 ,MF01 series on L2-5-9.Others are renovations and/or livery changes.
No new train in B or C line.Only E line and D line this year.
I miss the Metro. I always loved it when I visited. All the tunnels are lit and there's lots to see.
Paris is a small crowded city. It's population is approx 3 million and its boundary is La Peripherique, the orbital motorway on the line of the old city wall, so it's not actually that big. It's about 2/3 the size of Edinburgh. I had a map of each and it was a bit mind blowing when I noticed the 1km grid nos of Paris were less than Edinburgh. I think Edinburgh has a population of about 800,000 people.
The greater Parisian conurbation is absolutely massive, though.
oh this sounds like a fun challenge
I screamed when I saw you not ticking Brochant and Varenne at once ha
Love the pointless journeys
Funny you begin by St-Michel on RER B, the most Tube like station of the Paris Metro network. The C Line is on the very old railway linking Orsay to Austerlitz (mainline trains changed from Steam to a small electric "Salt Box" locomotive for that section. The former train station Hall is now the Orsay Museum. The B Line was built in the 70s, kinda like the Tube and it is under the Southern half of the River Seine, you can cross the River from one end to the other of the station.
You should have gone to Bercy on Line 6 to transfer with Line 14 there and then go back to Bibliothèque-François Mitterand to transfer to Line C. BTW, in three months, Olympiades won't be the last stop anymore, the extention to Orly will be opened likely late June. The other way you could have done it is to get off at Chevaleret and walk the Rue du Chevaleret down to Bibliothèque station and made a U turn via Olympiades just as you did with Line B.
The button in the lift says -1 because it is -1 below the street level -which, funnily enough is +1 level above real ground as the whole Massena district is built on a structure above the train tracks to Austerlitz ! The Concourse is in fact at Level -2 and the Line 14 trains at -4.
funny enough I didn't expect seeing you riding the bus 74 in my childhood neighbourhood (la fourche, and metro 13 line in it's North ends is always crowded even in weekends, banh holidays or evenings)
Great video - where was this challenge posted? Where’s the next European city? Berlin would be good, I really enjoyed their metro when I visited.
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I do like Paris and I have been on the Paris Metro once and been to lots of stations in and around Paris.
Great video as usual Nick! At 7:37 Pointless Journey perhaps?
nick you should go in a tgv!
they are super nice to stay in for a while
Great video, you certainly got pretty lucky with those random stations you got assigned!
One thing though, you should’ve mentioned at the start of they video (either at the time or edited in voiceover) that this was a challenge/race and to explain the concept of it
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The reason I didn't really mention it was a race is that it Tom and I were only really doing it for fun rather than trying to get the best time. For us it was moreso just like we've had a large group of us go to Paris and we all split off to do this challenge for the day.
That was my thought process anyway, might've been better to explain it more? I dunno
@@NickBadley I get that, but you still shouldve explained it more in my opinion. because most/many people already knew there was this huge trip of transport youtubers going to paris, so explaining this a bit more wouldve put it in context
@@Nooticus That's a fair point honestly, hadn't thought of that! Will try and clarify better in any future events 😅
@@NickBadley no worries!
Not my idea but I saw someone say ‘do a pointless journey between temple in Paris and temple in London on your way back’ (I think) which does sound like a good idea to me
Great Idea! 😂
That would be point to point rather than pointless journey.
A Pointless Journey would be something like going between Châtelet and Les Halles, and not using Line 4.
Or maybe Saint-Augustin - Saint-Lazare - Haussmann Saint-Lazare - Havre Caumartin - Auber - Opéra
Hmmmm 😉
@@NickBadleyoh my goodness you might actually be answering my request (I think it was me!) 😂
@@tramcrazy yeah I think it was you and I did mean point to point
Love the vids Nick!
Huge fan of Paris and the Metro/RER. It's a great network with a fascinating range of trains. Maybe have a go visiting some of the Tram stops on the lines dotted around. That would be an interesting challenge. BTW there is a station in Cardiff which I featured in my annual review called Whitchurch. What could you do with that? Whitchurch to Whitchurch - but which one? Thanks for this one
There are 3 Whitchurches no less
Here comes Tom from least used Angel Road
03:28 that lady looked at you so weirdly!
Oh yeah 😂
Lol
Heres a suggestion for a future video: Differences between the old and refurbished 1992 stock on the central line. One thing is, the motors sound different between the old 92 and the refurbished 92 stock, the old 92 stocks motor sounds like a screaming washing machine but ya gotta love it just a little bit.
Wow, didn't recognise Tom till I heard his voice. Last time seen on Least Used London - Angel Road
Great video, no meet up with the Tim traveller?
I was in Paris the week before you, loved the Metro, missus hated it.
Thanks! Great Content.
Thank you!
Looks like you had fun Nick.
Could you please do this on the Dublin dart and luas
Well done Nick. Great video!!
Want a long road to walk? The Avenue Jean-Jaurés!
Went to Paris a few weeks ago, drove to pontoise, got RER from there and then went round paris
If you want to come to Rotterdam i can give you a tour
What was the reasoning behind choosing those stations? I've only been to Paris for 15 hours (Saw a gig and walked around the centre before the first Eurostar back to London). I didnt like the French metro/RER, but i saw enough of the city to say I've been there!
Will you do a similar video in somewhere like Berlin on it's U+S Bahn system?
Rer b's doors are feroucious!
Yo whats up
So, Metro is tube and RER is Overground, roughly speaking? I've only been once; and on only 4 trains, as a change was required en rout6e between CDG Airport and our conference destination. Question is, given a map of Paris, have you any idea where you went??
RER A B,D and E Line is more Elisabeth Line , C line is more Overground. Transilien (H to U) lines is same as lines have begining at Waterloo station for exemple.
I think this was the first video you had where there was 3+2 seating and you didn’t rant
RER is wider than the overground or Elisabeth Line ....2.9m 2.95m wide.
What time is the last train on that service
All last start metro are at 0:30am in weekdays , 1:00am in Week end (Friday night and saturday night).
Fror RER, the last train in RER arrive at 1:00am/1:15 am at his last station...So the shorter the branch is, the later the last train passes. For exemple the last B train to the south is a Robinson at 1:18am at Robinson, so 1:01am at Denfert Rochereau and 0:14am at Mitry claye
come back to britain, you can never truly escape
Definitely don't apologise for trying to pronounce the stations the French way. Can guarantee you that a Parisian would make approximately no effort pronouncing UK stations correctly...
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Moscow stations are the best in the world
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