Oh Paris, once more you have rewarded this humble traveller with gifts and treasures far greater than i could have ever expected. Adventures, memories, quality food and the unstoppable burning desire to return. Sadly, as with all trips, they eventually have to come to a close. But before i bid my final farewell, returning to London from the station i had climbed not 24 hours ago. Paris had one last gift to give. A small kiss goodbye known as the Maillot Loop.
Originally functioning as the terminus for line one, the Maillot loop allowed trains to turn around and venture back along the line. This continued to be the case until 1937 when Line 1 was extended and the loops function was no longer required. While the loop isn’t technically abandoned, the platforms on the Maillot Loop are inaccessible to passengers, with one now serving as workshop for repairing and testing trains.
If you want more then this brief skim of history then your in the wrong place. As the majority of the information here is from his site i suggest forward your interweb browsers here.
Au revoir Paris, until next we meet!
well, i guess i’m an artist aswell, at least in a way, and honestly, ilike the pictures on this website and the way they carry history and show something aside from what we are used to. I love looking at “nowhere”, and i thank people who give me the oportunity to see more of it…
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Wonderful pictures, and btw the train parked on the photos is the first train of the new MP05 automatic series currently being deployed on line 1. You were lucky to be among the firsts to see it
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This has nothing to do with graffiti you narrow minded snob.
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My name is Larry A. Singleton. I’m an artist. I know what art is. And I know what it isn’t. And the garbage I see sprayed on public property is in no way, shape or form art. It is a crime. It is a crime legally. And it is a crime against humanity. The first way I look at it is as a worker in construction. I look at the 8×16 concrete blocks that have been placed one upon the other with what I know from personal experience is with the maximum and equal amounts of sweat and skill. I look and remember the finished product, like that plumbing business three Italian brothers and myself built from the ground up. And even though it wasn’t in the same class as the architecture of a Sella Artois Brewery or even the pyramids, to us it was a work of art. I’m sure I’m not alone in remembering the times when we’ve stood there, like I did when, just for the hell of it, weeks later I pulled off on the side of the road, got out of my car and just looked at that building and reflected and appreciated our past effort. It’s those kinds of moments that help you to appreciate yourself and even draw from at those times you’re feeling down. Those times when you can tell yourself: “You did good”.
And when I see some scumbag, some sleezeball come along and do just the opposite… …some worthless self-absorbed, low self-esteemed, asshole crap on my work of art like some mangy mutt marking his territory ,(and let me apologize to all good dogs for even making a comparison), I feel like I’d just like to go lie in wait somewhere the next time he wants to “express himself”, and… … execute him. Execute him and whoever is with him. Just like those inconsiderate scumbags, those “audio terrorists” who believe that they can utterly and complety destroy your peace of mind and quality of life by the many times during the day and into the evening him and his asshole buddies pass by your homes and blast their noise so loud every loose article in your house can be heard rattling and vibrating. Or when they pull up next to you on the road you wish you could pull out your gun, stretch out your arm and teach him and every other low-life the meaning of common courtesy. Which has completely disappeared in society today. Thanks in large part to our elected leaders this and graffiti are a sad reflection of the degradation that is taking place in our communities. Examples of how thugs and others are envading our neighborhoods and the sanctity of our homes.
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Larry A. Singleton (Simpleton) You are a proper prick who ever said you were an artist other than you ?.
I know of no artists that would blow there own trumpet !.
you are a real proper idiot.
Zolta0
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whats all this crap about, he didn’t graffiti anything, or is this just some automated spam junk thats polluting every site on the internet.
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No, just some ignorant person, who is also a complete dumb ass as this comment I’m guessing was meant to be posted on the Arsenal Ghost Station article which actually talks about the graffiti found in tube/ghost stations.
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