Thanks for visiting our metro :) I'm a metro driver on line 13. In few years, line 3bis and 7bis will receive brand new MF19 stock trains. For the moment it's between 2025 and 2027. :) Those trains will have 4 cars. :)

Finnally Geoff sees the “Waterloo and City Line” of the Paris Merro

Invader is a Paris-based street artist. His work is also found in London (and other cities around the world). There are some good examples around Old Street and Soho :)

couple of notes: - yes, the pathway at Gambetta is indeed where the track used to be. what you didn't mention though, is that the current line 3bis platform was the original Gambetta station. new platforms had to be built for line 3 when it was extended in another direction, and the segment to Gambetta got turned into a branch line. Martin Nadaud station was so close, it was absorbed into Gambetta station. - Porte Molitor never opened, since no exits have ever been built. however, there used to be a train shared between lines 9 and 10 back when both had the same stock, and since they had different seatings, Porte Molitor is where they would replace seats and maps, and store them on the platform, whenever the train had to switch lines. - the shortest distance between two stations is 183 m, between Cluny - La Sorbonne and Maubert - Mutualité. the journey takes about 30 seconds.

Hi Geoff, thank you for your brilliant video! I am glad you made a video about the city where I live ! Here is a fun fact about one station of line 7bis : Danube. This station was constructed in a very unstable terrain, where a gypsum mine used to be. Indeed, the station is perched more than 30m above solid ground. This is why they built huge supporting columns below the station. These were needed to keep the station from falling. Pretty impressive for a station of this size ! Ps: I am sorry if my English is not perfect, I am French (oui oui)

Two ideas for future videos: -The Paris Metro used to have First Class in the third car and this was discontinued. -Each station used to have an electric door that would close up when a train arrived, to prevent stragglers from running to the train. They had no retraction device and so could really hurt you if they closed on you. These were decommissioned in the late 1970s IIRC, but I believe may still be found in some stations, permanently propped open.

It is a CRIME that Tim didn't take you to the Parc Buttes-Chaumont to see la Temple de la Sibylle, the lake and go to the cafes there. Best park in all of Paris.

Oooh, the Geoff and Tim show is back! Yay! I wish you two would make more videos together! One thing you forgot to mention was that the train goes through a former gypsum mine at Buttes Chaumont, which made for huge difficulties building the tunnels! I believe they are even suspended in some places. I used to use Place des Fetes regularly when I lived in Paris in the 1970s (my own métro stations were Duroc or Francois Xavier) as a dear friend lived near there!

the secret line between 3bis and 7bis is called "la voie des fêtes" the flip up seats have been removed for maintenance

Nice! You're in my city on two of my favorite lines! They have very nice and quiet stations! Also if you've noticed the motor sounds on the 7bis MF88 trains, you will notice that these trains are prototypes for the modern metro trains in Paris.

I love the 7bis. I specially went to visit it whilst studying in Paris. Little known fact is that the 7bis was dug through a former gypsum mine with massive chambers and extremely unstable ground conditions, parts of the tunnel are actually built on viaducts. It was a truly insane building project.

1:25 Slammy Door and Handle Door have a special place on the channel.

I was in Paris for a few days in 2017 (in transit between Vladivostok and Sintra, yeah it was my 'bucket list' trip) and I rode on both those lines. Just because they looked curious on the map. And they didn't disappoint, I'm looking forward to Geoff and Tim's exploration.

The tunnel the runs where tracks used to be reminds me of the new(ish) connection between Times Square and Bryant Park here in NYC. They renovated the Times Square Shuttle to be 2 tracks, and replaced the 3rd track with a ramp down from the eastern end of the new island platform to a block long tunnel (with a block long piece of artwork) that ends with stairs down to both platforms at Bryant Park on the 6th Avenue lines (BDFM). Oddly because the shuttle closes overnight, the connection gets locked shut and passengers are told to go and take the 7 train one stop instead. Eventually they will add in elevators to make the connection fully accessible (oddly all of the Times Square complex is accessible EXCEPT for the tunnel that runs from the 8th avenue (ACE) lines to the rest of the station as that tunnel has steep ramps at both ends that are unfriendly to wheelchair users.)

There have been plans to combine 3bis and 7bis into one line, perhaps a line 19 (but that might be reserved for a future Grand Paris Express line) or a line 20. Such a line would use that eastbound connection between 7bis and 3bis, which in turns necessitates the opening of the famous built-but-never-used Haxo ghost station (as Pre-Saint-Gervais would be turned into a one way station as well).

The shoulder shrug and "je ne sais pas" look about the mystery of the lost seat was your best bit of french in all the video geoff 👌

Buttes-Chaumont is a beautiful park, landscaped from a disused quarry with the added attraction of the disused Petite Ceinture running through. Somewhere on my channel I've done a short Petite Ceinture video and one on the Arts et Métiers Metro station which has a wonderful Jules Verne interior.

I quite like the design of the Paris Metro's stations, especially the Art Nouveau station entrances.

Great to see the Geoff and Tim show again. What a treat. Merci beaucoup.

Now that you've done the 3bis and the 7bis on the Paris Metro, you have to do the U4 on the Berlin U-Bahn, which has a *very* similar vibe, but a bit of a different history. And no, this is not just an excuse to get you to visit Berlin again! xD

Space Invader mosaics: I did a walking tour for a few hours around Montmartre when I visited Paris. Started at the Moulin Rouge, then the cafe from Amelie, then several other locations including the "love" wall, finally ending at the Sacred Heart Basilica. Our guide liked pointing out the street art and I remember we saw a few of the space invader mosaics. I would bet there's well over 100 that the artist has left around Paris.

I lived next to Danube for over 2 years. Being a metro nerd myself I found that getting the 7bis daily was amazing. I'd occasionally get the 7bis change to the tram and then hop on the 3bis 😂

Great to see the "old style" trains still rrunning. It's a few years since I last went to Paris, I noticed significant changes to lines 1 & 4 last time I was there, including driverless operation of Line 1, and retro-fitting of platform edge doors.

That reminds me, I should go to Paris more often.

Geoff and Tim in one show. Two of my favorites. 👍🏻

So good to see Geoff and Tim back out on the Metro… did anyone think that Tim was channelling the French stereotype with a stripey top and a beret? 😜 At 4:03, great to see Tim saying 98 in French, or to translate directly: four twenty eighteen 😀 Hope you both had fun on the trains!

Cluny la Sorbonne to Maubert feels shorter because you can actually see between the two stations in the tunnel. Haven't ridden the 10 much beyond that so I can't really compare the actual travel time but the straight line and visibility makes the two feel insanely close!

Awesome video of those two lines .A friends name is Lila and we where fascinated there is a station of Porte de Lila's. But after just seeing John Wick 4 recently and they use this station to find out there is a " cinema" station , amazing !! Used the Metro when I went Paris 7 yrs ago and loved it , well done Geoff & his mate .

The thing I really like about the old trains is you can open the doors as the trains pulling in, you can do that on the Berlin one as well

I think the shortest distance between two stations is between Martin Nadeau and Gambetta. Since you visited Gambetta, you know that the station is just massively long. That's because when they separated the 3bis from the 3 they had to rebuild the station and since the distance between the Martin Nadeau station and the new Gambetta station was so short, they just merged them.

I was last in Paris 10 years ago. It's amazing how things haven't changed. Same tickets, same doors and chair colors, same Lion King show poster.

Geoff! Hair coloring? A new look? Love these little short line stories… Love Tim as your “pro French speaker”…

Lovely to see Paris. I have a visceral reaction to Paris. It'sike seeing a lost lover that I've never got over. It's such a special place

Great to see another video with you and The Tim Traveller in Paris!

I spent a pleasant afternoon in 2018 walking around Parc des Buttes Chaumont avec ma soeur qui vivait à Paris! Happy memories and thanks for the Metro stories.

Great video as always. Glad to see Geoff and Tim collaborating again. I am subscribed to both of you and this video shows again why =) Have a wonderful weekend everyone

What a coincidence, I was in Paris the day before this video went live, used the metro a few times and liked it, I love the chime they have for incoming trains.

Great video Geoff, love the banter with Tim Traveller.

I love when you do videos with Tim. You should make it a regular thing.

As a French speaker I realised how your french improved since the Eglise d'Auteuil video ! I love your french accent ! Félicitations 🎉

Because of the plague and some other delayed plans, I haven’t been to Paris in a few years (I used to go 2-3 times a year). This video is making me excited to be returning in the late summer for a little Rugby tournament they’ve got planned. My poor wife is going to be getting dragged around some of these sights.

The Paris trick with the handle is that you can lift it in advance, and they will open the doors slightly before the stop, so you can get off while still moving, so it's fast, and you already have some speed up and can just continue walking. :-) Efficiency!

Great video! Thought I’d add info : at 2:02 the bench is so uncomfortable because RATP don’t want homeless people sleeping on them, so they voluntarily made it impossible to lie on. Colour schemes are stock based, not line based. The only difference you might find are both lines 3 and 3bis MF67 stock got unique refurbishments with unique layouts and colours (PIS and longitudinal seats for line 3, and removal of tip up seats for line 3bis). The wall in the middle at Buttes-Chaumont and Botzaris has nothing to do with the line splitting. It’s just because the station is too unstable without them, as they are so deep underground.

I miss being in the EU

Back in Paris, love it! I went on both these lines, plus all the line son the Network! Brilliant video, Love the bis lines!

Glad to see you back in this game. Looking forward to seeing more.

1:25 Vienna U-Bahn still has handles on the older stock :))

Two of my favourites. And riding my local métro line of all places ! ☺️

The 7bis line have unique trains in the whole Paris metro! Also you don’t mention it but between the 3bis and 7bis there is the "voie des fêtes"with the ghost station haxo, but there’s also the "voie navette" which was used to test the first pneumatic metro in the world, the MP51! I’m a big fan of the Paris metro 😂

An hour ago I was looking if Mr. Marshall had a new video, and there was nothing. “Maybe he’s on holiday?” Apparently!

Have you considered doing Luxembourg? Since 2020 all public transport is free. You might be able to do the entire rail network in a day.

Thanks Geoff love your videos. I've learnt so much about trains because of your videos. 👍

Brilliant video Geoff keep up the good work

The camera angle at 7:35, reminds me of some Glasgow subway stations!

What a treat! And such a nice surprise, this collab.

Cant beat a bit of french quirk. Well done Geoff and Tim (definitely subscribed to both of you)

Loved this video of my favourite undergroundsystem- i started writing a book on the history of the Metro - I need to go back to it...

Great video. I need to go to Paris now

That was lovely. And I love the hair Geoff!

Thanks for covering the Paris metro! Nice to see you outside your London's playground. Hopefully you'll cover more metros in all of Europe! Madrid, Milan, Stockholm...

Excellent Video again dear Geoff. And a great new hairstyle!

I love these international videos! Please do more! 😊

This was a really fun episode, I’ll have to do that when I go Paris in autumn this year, fortunately I also get the joy of coming from Zurich with the TGV

I didn’t know anything about the Paris network, great seeing both my favourite KZfaqrs in the one video :)

Great to see Geoff and Tim working together!

Great video, love the Paris Metro, love your videos and Tim's....we had The Tim Thumb

Thanks Geoff for a superb video one of my favourite metro systems ,I will definitely use Rosetta Stone to improve my French.

I did exactly the same trip last week, well worth the time going out that way the character of those lines was incredible.

Paris' transport system is great :) maybe the only one I would say potentially holds a candle to London! Great video as always!

those line have a complicated history,but nice video The line fron the left,at the Gambeta,is used as a garage

Geoff et Tim sont toujours amusants! Je suis toujours ravi de les voir faire une vidéo de collaboration. I can't wait to visit Paris and ride the Métro. I'm wondering what the gap between the trains and the platforms are like for wheelchair accessibility.

Great video! Keep it up! 👍

Gotta love some more Geoff & Tim adventures

Very cool. Come to Toulouse I'll show you around😊

Another great video Geoff - thank you! Speaking of least used, how about doing the least used station in Scotland? I've had a look online and it may be Lochluichart, but I could be wrong.

Thanks love your videos Geoff keep up the good work

Looking stylish Tim!

Great video Tim and Geoff. I’ve done a bit of research and I think Cluny-La Sorbonne - Odeon is closer at probably just under 300m and Cluny-La Sorbonne - Maubert-Mutualité is probably 350-400m. This is probably not 100% accurate with the distances but I’m fairly sure I’m right about which one of the two is closer. I’d have thought Chalalet to Les Halles on line 4 would be amongst the closest distances between stations, my guess that’s less than 300m at least going Northbound as there’s a bend there

The 'space Invader' thingies are, I believe, applied by a Paris street artist, appropriately called, 'Invader'. Look him up!

2 of my favorite KZfaqrs in one video! Omg YAAAAASSSS!!!

Props to the person who produces the cartometro website. Not a week passes without me looking how the track and platforms are actually positioned in one of the European cities. 👍

Exactly what I needed!

3bis was closed today when I tried to visit. But I did get one of the old trains on line 11. Did have to skip a door just to open it myself!

Tim being all incognito with the sunglasses. 😆

great video! Sydney has the city loop, would love to see you down under! we speak English, as colonials we also have improved the dialect! LOL oh great hair cut!

I went to Paris back in June and I got to ride the metro. I always thought the LU doors were brutal but Paris puts it on a whole new level! I saw a woman get squashed in the doors and have to muscle her way onto the train as it began to move!

I live in paris and any video Geoff does on its metro mskes my day!

Come south to Lyon Geoff, there is a metro here as well, some trains have drivers and some don't, there are also some funiculars to have a go on.

Go to Munich, they still have some of the old stock with which I grew up and they also have a handle.

Was just on the 3bis jusr few weeks ago, the handle is so funny.

Another hectic video Geoff I hope you did get you coffee! It is a shame you didn't give us a little bit more time seeing the station entrances with the classic Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs.

Also my favourite lines in Paris Metro. Hope they'll finally end up connected. P.S. You should really come to visit Moscow Underground someday. You'll have a wonderful time there. We even have a monorail!

I've spent many a happy time wandering about the Métro. I love Paris! I envy you being there. Scrawled on a poster in the Metro one New Year: RATP= Rentre à tes pieds ~= walk home. There's a pretty comprehensive book on the history of the Metro by Jean Tricoire called De Bienevenue à Météor Un Siècle de Métro en 14 lignes. It has lots of pictures of the construction of all the lines mais c'est complètement écrit en français. It's all really really amazing stuff. I think it's Line 7 that has tunnels which are actually underground viaducts running through caverns under the Buttes Chaumont. Something like that. All the tunnels have been lit since the fire at Couronnes on line 2 in 1903. They're great for urban exploration. All totally illegal of course but there's plenty videos on it. The city of Paris is densely populated with not quite 3 million people but the actual city limits make it physically small so there's never too far between stations. I think it occupies somewhere between the area of Nottingham and Edinburgh. Greater Paris is huge though.

I'm so sorry but I have to mention Geoff's blonde streak! I think an explanation is needed 😂

Hey Geoff! My mind is so twisted at this time. I'm a French Canadian from Montreal and used to check out on Brits channels once and other times on French channels. But now you're in Paris. Everything around you is French but you're British. I'm reading the ads and the announcements in French while trying to listen to you in English. Wow! But that's ok I could manage. Good to see you in Paris. Have a good time )

Nice video ! Will you be able to make a video on the RER A one day please because it is one of the quietest lines of the French RER and it passes by my house

I rode on this line on the Berlin übhann that only had 2 terminuses and 1 intermediate station, think they expanded it but from the main haptbnhöf station

I can definitely recommend the park in Buttes Chaumont, probably my favorite. It is on a hillside and youcan see both the Eiffel tower and Sacré Cœur.

yay, geoff's in paris! I love the Metro (and Paris itself for that matter)

Loving the hair Geoff 👊🏽💯