The old railway of the Red Army. story of a cop

If you dream Railway- it means that you will soon find that your business needs special attention, as your enemies are trying to seize the initiative in it.

If a girl dreams of a railway, it means that she will go on a trip to visit her friends and have a wonderful time there.

To dream of a barrier on a railroad track means betrayal in your affairs.

Passing through the intersection of sleepers on the railway means a time of anxiety and exhausting work.

Walking on rails in a dream is a sign that you will achieve great happiness thanks to your skillful business management.

Dream about flooded railroad tracks clean water, means that misfortune will darken the joy of life for a while, but it will be reborn again, like a phoenix from the ashes.

Interpretation of dreams from Miller's Dream Interpretation

Dream Interpretation - Railway

The railway in a dream portends a profitable journey at someone else's expense. If in a dream you are driving along it, it means that pretty soon find out for yourself what exactly is an obstacle in your affairs, and resolutely begin to eliminate these obstacles.

The dream of a railway station suggests that in the coming days you will have to use public transport services.

For a young girl to see herself in a dream at a railway station means that she will happily go to her friends who are vacationing outside the city and have great fun with them there.

Seen in a dream railroad crossing symbolizes your desire for new goal which will encounter significant obstacles and difficulties. Walking on sleepers in a dream portends the intensification of your activities in a new direction, which will bring immediate success and high incomes.

The railroad arrow means that in this moment you are at a crossroads in life, move the arrow - make the final choice.

Crossing the railroad tracks in front of a rapidly approaching train means the onset of an alarm streak in your life, full of painstaking but unprofitable work.

Passing over a railway bridge across a large, endless river in a dream means that a temporary decline in your affairs will be replaced by a sharp rise. Seeing yourself in a dream as a conductor of a railway car - in reality you will have to turn to your closest neighbors for a small service.

If you dream that you are riding a train through an absolutely hopeless railway tunnel- this means that soon you will be involved in an unusual enterprise that will turn out to be sad events or endless troubles for you. Walking in a dream along an underground railway crossing - you will never be able to unravel the mystery over which you have already for a long time break your head. Getting lost in such a transition means that you are embarking on a path that will not lead you to success, but move you away from it.

Interpretation of dreams from

1851 - the Nikolaev railway was put into operation.
The Oktyabrskaya (Nikolaevskaya, as it became known after the death of Emperor Nicholas I) railway is the oldest in Russia. Its history began in 1837 with the opening of the railway line St. Tsarskoye Selo. On February 1, 1842, the Imperial Decree on the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow railway was signed, and on November 13, 1851, the road connected two Russian capitals: at 11:15 a passenger train departed from St. Petersburg, which arrived in Moscow the next day at nine o'clock in the morning. On the way, he spent 21 hours and 45 minutes. The distance between St. Petersburg and Moscow is 598 versts (634 kilometers), the length of the road was determined at 604 versts (644 kilometers).

At the time, it was the longest two-track railway in the world. During the construction of the Verebevsky bypass in 1877, the length of the road increased to 609 versts. In 2001, this section of the highway was straightened, which reduced the distance between cities (http://vrubcovske.ru/) by five kilometers. The subgrade of the road was erected with a width of 9.45 meters and was designed for two rail tracks. Earthworks were carried out manually. Over thirty railway stations, about 200 bridges were built, 70 culverts and 20 overpasses were laid. The railway stations were built under the leadership of the chief architect of the road K.A. Ton, later he was replaced by the architect R.A. Zhelyazevich. Along the entire line, railway barracks, watch houses and crossings across the roadbed were built. Conducted between stations. As work is completed on separate sections experimental movement began. Opened in 1847 constant movement on the section Petersburg - Kolpino, in 1849 - Kolpino - Chudovo, in 1850 - Vyshny Volochok- Tver.

At first, two passenger and four freight trains ran between St. Petersburg and Moscow. The passenger train consisted of seven wagons, while the freight train consisted of 15. average speed movement was 29.6 kilometers per hour. Gradually, the speed of trains increased, and the travel time decreased. As early as 1913, a train of nine passenger cars led by a steam locomotive of the Sormovskiy Zavod covered the distance from St. Petersburg to Moscow in the same time as modern trains running on the route. In 1932, passenger steam locomotives of the IS series of the Kolomna Plant appeared on the Oktyabrskaya Railway and the Red Arrow express was launched, reaching speeds of up to 120 kilometers per hour on hauls. In 1965, a day service began to run between Leningrad and Moscow. high-speed train"Aurora", capable of accelerating to 160 kilometers per hour. In 1984, the ER-200 electric train of the Riga Carriage Works was introduced into the schedule, but it ran only once a week. This train is capable of reaching speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour, and spends about five hours on the road.
In 1996-2000, the reconstruction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow highway was carried out, in fact it was built according to modern technologies new railroad. Thanks to the reconstruction, trains can reach speeds of 200-250 kilometers per hour. Maximum achieved speed on the line St. Petersburg - Moscow is 260 kilometers per hour. The Oktyabrskaya railway runs along the Leningrad, Moscow, Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Murmansk, Vologda, Yaroslavl regions, through the territories of St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well as the Republic of Karelia, connects Russia with foreign states.

December 24th, 2012

"The great expanse of Russia is unthinkable without railways,
the main arteries of the life of a large country".
G.V. Sviridov

Welcome to home page site "Forgotten Railways"! It will be of interest to those who are not indifferent to railways as a mode of transport and as a significant part of history. Descriptions and photographs of railways, stations and individual trains will be posted here. Moreover, the railways are predominantly narrow-gauge, low-density and access roads, and not multi-track highways, which the residents of the capital are used to traveling on.

Target this project- to show the reader how interesting railways can be, to convey at least part of this unique world, the beauty of which many people do not see. That is, the author does not set himself the goal of showing as much as possible about the railways, but only the most interesting and non-obvious, which is worthy of attention. Many railways are degrading and being destroyed (here, reflecting the degradation of railway lines) - and people may not know their history and do not see the peculiar beauty of these roads, whether it be the landscape surrounding it, stations, bridges, an extraordinary location, unique technique etc. This is the idea of this site.

If you see the rails going into the distance, you involuntarily wonder: where do they lead? If you know that almost all conventional gauge railways form a single network, and completely autonomous networks can be counted on the fingers of one hand, then the interest increases even more: where do separate tracks intersect and connect into a colossal web? Another thing is narrow-gauge railways, their main feature just that they do not form any single network, and each small network has its own characteristics.

In addition to railways, I am largely interested in history, local history, art history, Russian cities, Moscow, architecture, Orthodox churches and Russian outback. I give these subjects Special attention traveling, but there is not enough time to write about it, so I only maintain the site in the form of a magazine about railways. If your blog contains entries on this topic and it is updated more than once every six months, then most likely I will subscribe to it. Feel free to advertise it to me! And I ask you to subscribe only if my site is really interesting to you.
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For ease of reading, entries are placed 10 on each page. To navigate between pages, click "Previous 10" or "Next 10" at the bottom of the page. Part of the long record is hidden under the links in bold red.

Now - directly about the railways: a few facts to raise interest in the topic.

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January 4th, 2013

In Moscow, relatively close to the center, there is a very interesting place for railway lovers. It is located on Ugreshskaya Street, at its very end, which can be easily reached from the Proletarskaya metro station by trams No. 20, 40 and 43. This is a place where the tram tracks are directly connected to the railway, where there is no clear line between the tram and the railway borders. It is called like this: a tram-railway adapter, or a gate ( English: gate). Well, yes, this is precisely the gate between the two "elements". There are not many such places in Russia (more often there are dead ends for unloading tram cars from a platform car).

In Moscow, this is the only one. Rarely where else in Russia on tram tracks there are manual arrows, gondola cars with an automatic coupler SA-3, and, of course, a unique contact-battery electric locomotive EPM3b, built here. EPM3b is the undercarriage of a now rare diesel locomotive

May 31st, 2013

Spring has been very late this year. The first warmth came to us only by mid-April, and with its arrival, interesting period in my life, which I would call "stalker spring", because this spring I traveled a lot to the abandoned industrial facilities of Saxony, which could serve as the perfect decoration for the universe based on computer game"Stalker". I stumbled upon this railway line quite by accident during my very first trip, which marked the beginning of the "stalker spring".

Many discoveries in my travels happen completely by accident. On the way, you notice an interesting object, come closer to examine it and get so carried away that the object of your interest begins to gradually reveal its secrets to you. That is what happened this time. The purpose of my trip was an old mill on the outskirts of a small town outside the city limits of Dresden. But on the way I met an abandoned Train Station and rusty grassy rails nearby. I became curious and I went to take a closer look at this place.

01. This photo was taken from a road that crossed a railway line in the past, but now the rails at the crossing site have been dismantled and the fact that there used to be a crossing here is only reminiscent of the continuation of the railway line from reverse side highways.

02. On the building with boarded up windows, which is in the foreground in the first photo, there was such an information leaflet. From it I learned the name of the branch and the fact that, until 1998, passenger pleasure trains occasionally ran along it. What I saw further clearly indicated that nothing larger than a trolley could pass here now.

03. The info sheet also mentioned that for more than 18 years, railway enthusiasts have been fighting to preserve the unique railway line, which is threatened with dismantling. Next to the rusty rails lie fresh piles of tiles and concrete blocks. This is a little strange, because the branch looks like it has already begun to be dismantled. Maybe they want to do something like a museum here by beautifully tiling the territory of the former station?

04. We go deeper into the territory of the station. The station building is abandoned, all the windows on the first floors are boarded up with iron shields.

05. My curiosity calls me to look where the rusty rails lead.

06. Next to the station building, the remains of a wooden carriage are the only thing left of the rolling stock in this place.

07. The further state of the path indicates that it has not been used for a very long time.

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09. The rails are very picturesquely overgrown with grass. As if nature is trying to hide the traces of human intervention in its abode as soon as possible and return it to its original appearance. I am sure that if you come here in a month, when the fresh grass will sprout, the traces of the rails will be very difficult to detect.

10. Judging by the age of the birch thicket that grew on the spot railway station, it has been abandoned for decades.

11. Soon the blossoming foliage will completely hide the traces of the station, but on these first warm spring days, you can easily find rails, arrows and the remains of the former infrastructure.

12. Dead end. Here ends one end of the branch. Next I go to my main goal day, having examined which, I decided to return to this railway line and find out where it leads.

13. Almost immediately after the dismantled railway crossing, the rails continue and after two hundred meters they cross the village street with such a railway bridge.

14. I climb railway embankment and I look around. From that side I came, behind the turn visible in the photo, the rails break in front of the highway. I've already been there.

15. And I haven’t been around that turn yet, that’s where my path lies.

16. From here begins my bright spring walk along the old railway track.

17. What could be nicer than taking such a walk on a warm spring day? The beautiful landscapes of the Saxon province, the calm, measured atmosphere and the silence, broken only by the singing of birds - all this envelops the air along the abandoned railway with a special charm, and the mystery shimmering on the horizon, trembling from the heat, makes the discoverer move on with childish delight. clear intent reach the end and solve all the riddles of this road.

18. Behind the next turn, a small industrial zone begins and a third rail appears on the turns, the so-called counter rail. It serves to prevent wagons from derailing on curves of small radius, which are in abundance here.

19. Birds posed for me a little and tweeted something cheerful and joyful, like this warm day, jumped into the bushes.

20. Former factory for the production of handling equipment. I do not know what is now in this building, but it does not look abandoned.

21. The road constantly winds and rises higher and higher up the mountain. The area through which it passes is by no means deserted. Around the railroad tracks are houses and cottages of local residents. From the embankment you can clearly see the people who came out on this warm day to relax in their backyards and dachas. Someone trims decorative bushes in the yard, someone fries a barbecue and drinks beer, and someone just lounges in an armchair, enjoys the warmth and sun. The atmosphere is very relaxed and spring-like lazy.

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23. The condition of the track suggests that the road can hardly be used for its intended purpose. The sleepers have turned into dust and crumble right under the soles of the boots. If anything can still pass here - then only a light railcar with a couple of pleasure trailers.

24. Meanwhile, the road rises higher and higher up the mountain and the higher it rises, the more beautiful landscapes open from the railway embankment.

25. On a neighboring mountain, some kind of palace is visible - here is a scattering of this wealth. Almost every town or village in Saxony has its own castle or palace. varying degrees elegance and scale.

26. The heritage of the GDR - the outskirts of any East German city are traditionally built up with standard high-rise block buildings.

27. Another turn keeping its secret. What's next? Maybe the branch suddenly breaks? Can it end in a dead end or merge into the railway network? Or maybe I will meet there an abandoned station with a cemetery of railway equipment? The latter would be emotionally tantamount to finding a treasure. But the road to treasure is even sweeter than the joy of the treasure itself. That is why my every step along the slippery rails and their next turn fills my soul with joyful awe and expectation of a miracle.

28. It can be seen that the road is still being watched - thickets of bushes along the embankment are neatly trimmed. Someone will take care that this railroad does not overgrow to the state, as in photographs 9-11.

29. My path continues on. At that time, I knew absolutely nothing about this railway line. He did not know where it led, why it was built and how soon it would end. It was four o'clock in the evening and I was determined to go to the end, hoping in my heart that in the place where the branch ended, there would be some public transport who will take me back to Dresden. I did not even suspect where I was and where this path would lead me, but my curiosity was the strongest and I moved on.

30. And the road rose higher and higher up the hill, the landscapes were replaced by less populated and more deserted.

31. Suddenly, the forest parted and I went straight into the very heart of civilization.

32. View from the railway bridge from the 31st photo - Dresden is visible on the horizon.

33. Finally! The first railway infrastructure object on my way is a semaphore.

34. The semaphore is controlled by a system of cables stretched above the ground and going somewhere further.

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36. Going into the distance, the semaphore control cables point to positive thoughts- it means that there is something interesting ahead, at least the place where the control was carried out.

37. On the way I meet a permanently closed crossing. Once there was highway. Now behind the left barrier there is a fence and the territory of some enterprise.

38. The semaphore control cables keep the intrigue to the end without immediately revealing what is around the corner.

39. When I go around the last turn, an unexpected picture opens up in front of me. Such a surprise! An entire railway station with many samples of rolling stock of varying degrees of preservation.

40. A device for tensioning the semaphore control cables so that they do not sag.

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42. Well, I’ll start examining the treasure I found :)

43. At a dead end on the edge of the station there are several very old and very dilapidated cars.

44. An arrow with a plafond for a kerosene lamp as evidence of the long history of this railway line.

45. Beauty!

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47. I move closer to the station where the most interesting objects rolling stock.

48. Car built in 1910, but undergoing restoration.

49. Judging by the way this car is cherished, this is clearly one of the most valuable copies of the rolling stock that are present here.

68. The second is amazing vehicle popularly referred to as "rail trabantom". I was lucky to meet his brother in a completely different place and even ride on it. There will be a separate post about this car. This copy, located in the locomotive garage at this station, was bought in 2007 by one participant of the verain and provided to the verain for temporary use. (Photo from the official website of the railway)

69. My walk of several hours has come to an end. So, quite by accident and unplanned, I touched a very interesting part of the industrial history of Saxony and learned so much about a place that I would never have visited if not for my childish curiosity. How much joy this leisurely walk along the tracks brought me can be seen in this post. But all you need sometimes is just to stop and look around. There are so many interesting and surprising things around us, sometimes you just need to turn off a pre-planned route and you will discover places that you did not even know existed.

Fortunately, my walk ended well too - in this village I ended up bus stop and after ten minutes of waiting, the bus was already taking me to the railway station, where I transferred to the train to Dresden.

70. This picturesque and interesting railway line ends with such a dead end. Once it was twice as long and its total length was more than 13 kilometers, of which only six have survived to this day.

71. I enclose a map of the historic Windbergbahn railway. I walked the route from the Freital-Birkigt station, which is on the fourth photo, to the final station Dresden-Gittersee. As you can see on the map, the branch was originally much longer
(Map taken from here). The section of track from Dresden-Gittersee to Possendorf was demolished in 1951. Since in postwar period part of the East German railways was dismantled and sent as reparations to Soviet Union, many minor railway lines were dismantled for material to restore more important ones. The same fate befell the historical iron windbergbahn road, part of which was dismantled. Now in place former tracks walking and cycling trails.

72. More recently, I again found myself in these places and took several photographs of this railway, but already in late spring, when everything is immersed in greenery on the streets. The railway at this time of the year is completely transformed and looks much more elegant than in early spring.

And in conclusion, very briefly about the history of this railway. This is the first mountain railway in Germany, the history of which dates back to 1856, when its first section was built for the export of mined in these places. hard coal. Also, since 1857, on Sundays, passenger trains for vacationers were allowed here, as the road passed in a picturesque area. By the end of the 19th century, the coal reserves in the already existing mines were running out and many mines were closed. Then it was decided to extend the railway line to the mines located further, and by 1908 the line takes on its finished form, which is shown on the map above. Due to the decrease in coal traffic, a regular passenger service is also being introduced along the Dresden-Possendorf route.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the coal reserves of this region were increasingly depleted, and in 1930 the last coal mines were closed. Also, with the introduction in 1919 of regular bus service in these places, the railway is increasingly losing its passengers. All the more important for this railway line are weekend passenger trains, which are very popular with local vacationers and tourists. After the Second World War, as I mentioned above, part of the railway line was dismantled, since at that time it had no industrial value. In the 50s, the Soviet Union began mining uranium in this region for the Soviet nuclear program, in connection with which, since 1957, passenger traffic has been completely stopped and the branch has been completely transferred to the military. Later, it was classified and erased from all maps available to the public. It is possible that its existence would have been forgotten, but a group of enthusiasts created the working community "WIndbergbahn" and in 1980 achieved the inclusion of a branch in the list of historical monuments protected by law. It was the first railway line in the GDR included in this list. In 1989, uranium mining stops and in 1991 a non-profit public organization (ferain) is created with the aim of turning this railway into a museum and restoring the movement of tourist weekend passenger trains. In 1993 freight traffic on this branch due to the closure of the uranium mine and the shutdown of several industrial enterprises completely stops and until 1998 only sightseeing trains verain.

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In 1998, in connection with bad condition the roadway is completely closed for train traffic. The threat of demolition looms over the road. For its owner, German Railways, the road is no longer of any interest, and in the early 2000s, part of the track and infrastructure was dismantled. The road is no longer connected to the rail network. Social organization(Verein) has been fighting for many years to preserve the line and create on its basis a full-fledged museum line on the model of 1920 with regular sightseeing trains. There are successes along this path. The railway has not yet been dismantled and something is being done on the way to the main goal. But due to the lack of a serious financial support state and business this process is very slow.

75. When a month later I found myself in these places again, construction equipment was swarming on the section of the road near the former crossing.

76. An excavator disassembles the asphalt at the site of the former crossing, apparently one of these days there will again be a railway crossing and the two parts of the railway line will be connected again. Also, judging by the information on the official website of the verein, it is planned to reconnect this railway line with the railway network in the future, which will allow sightseeing trains to be launched from Dresden itself.

I really want to believe that railroad enthusiasts will have the necessary support and funds to realize their dreams, and on the railroad with such rich history historical trailers will run again.

Abandoned railway in Paris May 18th, 2015

Something similar we have already considered in New York. Remember what is? Let's now go back to Paris...

Few Parisians know that their métro was close to completely disappearing from the ground - in the sense that it could become ground transport. In the mid 1800s each Big City Western world tried to solve the problem of transporting its own and arriving residents from the suburbs through congested city streets. Paris was ahead of the rest, since back in 1852 it opened an overland railway laid along the city outskirts - hence the name: Petite Ceinture, or "small belt". At first, it transported only animals to slaughterhouses and cargo, but gradually it was adapted to the transport of passengers and showed itself to the fullest during the Prussian siege of 1870-1871, when French soldiers broke through on steam locomotives to protect urban areas. That was the first experience of mechanized warfare.

Let's remember how it all happened and what this road is like now ...

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This line formed a circle only inside the fortified perimeter of the city and connected other railways. It was a resounding success and for nearly 100 years the line served as one of the main means of transportation in Paris. But at the beginning of the 20th century, the need for it invariably began to decrease, and by 1934 the line was practically abandoned. Over the years, the Small Belt has remained almost untouched. It is overgrown with moss and ivy, and even a few Parisians are aware of its existence. Almost 32 kilometers of railway, several tunnels and bridges are hidden in the thick of urban development.

The gardens laid out near the Bastille, Coulée Verte, just stretch along the old railway. The parks of Montsouris to the south and Buttes-Chaumont to the north are crossed by abandoned rails, and music Festival The Flèche d'Or in the 20th arrondissement passes just former station Petite Ceinture

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Kilometers railway tracks, almost completely closed to train traffic back in the era of the pan-European decline that happened in 1934, functioned for a very short time - only from 1852. And once the “belt” ran parallel to the boulevard ring and surrounded the whole city, connecting in series all the city stations into one network. The construction was initiated by the then Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers - partly as fortifications, partly as a means of transportation for citizens. With the coming to power of Napoleon III and the establishment of the Second Republic, the construction of the district railway went on at a rapid pace, according to local concepts.

And not at the expense internal funds, and at the expense of other cities - Napoleon III did everything to squeeze money out of Rouen, Strasbourg, Orleans and Lyon, honestly arguing the need for subsidies by the fact that “enemies will not reach Paris, and the presence of the railway will, in which case, maintain communications between regions and supply food to the occupied areas. The memory of the war of 1814-1815 was still so alive in the French that everyone resignedly agreed. True, funding, like many things in France, proceeded at such a leisurely pace that the ring was connected only in 1867, just in time for the World Exhibition. And it was then that Paris really in every sense became the center of France, where trains came - then almost the only technologically advanced means of transportation in the world - from all over the country.

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Now only a few kilometers of paths are officially open to the public - from the Gare d'Auteuil station to the Muette station (Gare de la Muette), they are protected by the mayor's office and have long turned into an oasis where more than 200 species of plants grow and live by eating grass and its smaller counterparts, 70 species of living creatures, including squirrels, hedgehogs, foxes, raccoons and other, not quite urban, living creatures. Now it's more like park zone, well-maintained for visits than the action that can happen in the quietest and wealthiest districts - the sixteenth and seventeenth.

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And now there is another, more exciting part that can really become exciting journey to that part of Paris, which is little known even local residents. And the beginning of it will be, say, right next to the extremely popular establishment of the authorship of Philippe Starck called Mama Shelter, where the Parisians are so fond of going to drink a couple of cocktails on the terrace. And by the way, where we recommend to look. In a small street called rue Florian, there are large and never closed gray gates. Two steps - and you are in a completely different world filled with flowers and graffiti, walking through which you can shamelessly look into the windows of artists' workshops.

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Another way to get into parallel reality Paris is to be at the old, inactive station of the Gare de Charonne station, now turned into a trendy rock and roll institution La Flèche d'Or.

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And what can await this road today?

New York architects showed the world an example of how old railroad infrastructure can be turned into modern place for the rest of the townspeople. It's about about the High Line Park, which became famous and gave rise to many imitations all over the planet. A similar project appeared in France. There may be a revival in the future circle line La Petite Ceinture trains.

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As we have already said, the 30-kilometer circular railway line La Petite Ceinture was built in 1857 to connect several stations in Paris. But in the 1930s, it was closed - the subway began to perform its functions. Since then, this infrastructure facility has gradually collapsed without repair, until the architects Amilcar Ferreira and Marcelo Fernandes proposed to run new trains on the upgraded rails.

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Of course, from a transport point of view, this makes no sense. But the authors of the project propose to use the trains at La Petite Ceinture not for transporting passengers, but for street trading. Each such train will become mobile shopping mall moving from one station in the center of Paris to another. Kiosks built into the carriages sell antiques, souvenirs, fast food, sweets and other goods popular among tourists.

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Tourists will also be able to use this train to travel around Paris. After all, the La Petite Ceinture railway passes through the very center of this city, not far from the main attractions of the French capital.

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