Trains and other things

I have an overnight stopover in Paris on my way to Hungary

Today there are no RER trains from the airport due to railworks, but there is a bus to Opera

30-40min later near the Opera

The next morning, I'm doing a short excursion from the Clichy Levalois station

Inside the RER MI 2N train

Sartouville station

MI 2N Altéo

The main line Paris Saint Lazare to Le Havre is located here

Here is a TER train to Normandie

Also, the Sartrouville station serves the Grande Ceinture line, the so-called Paris outer ring railway, which also handles freight. Here is a freight train arriving at the right

The Grande Ceinture is now entirely dedicated to freight traffic in its northern and eastern section between Sartrouville and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, linking up the western (Normandy), northern (Picardie, Benelux, Great Britain), east (Lorraine, Alsace, Germany) and south-eastern and south-western routes and their extensions into Italy, Switzerland and Spain, and the connections between the different factories of Île-de-France. It linked the marshalling yards at Achères, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, and Bourget until the closure of the first two in 2005–2006. Intense traffic (more than 200 trains a day) on certain sections, notably in Seine-Saint-Denis, is at saturation level. (Wikipedia, Google-translated from French).

Not the best spot due to high number of RER trains

Z 56600 is a high-comfort version of the Regio 2N (also known as Omneo Premium), designed for the Normandy region, with a speed limit of 200 km/h.

37053, Prima EL3U from RégioRail

827361, Prima EL2P used for Transilien service here in Paris

The SNCF Class BB 27300 is an electric locomotive. There are 67 BB 27300 locomotives, built as part of the Prima range by Alstom. The first BB 27300 were delivered starting in 2006. Painted in the blue and white livery of Transilien, the brand name for the SNCF network around Paris, these locomotives are the passenger equivalent of the freight-only SNCF Class BB 27000 and are equipped for push-pull operation on suburban passenger services in the Île-de-France region around Paris, working with refurbished VB2N double-deck carriages. (Wikipedia)

The usage of BB 27300 locomotives on suburban passenger services is a temporary measure. It is expected that sometime after 2015, they will begin to be replaced by new Electric Multiple Units. When this happens, the locomotives are likely to find further use with SNCF's freight subsidiary, SNCF Fret, where they will join the technically similar BB 27000 locomotives. (Wikipedia)

I'm on my way back to Paris

On my way to Saint Lazare station

The Gare Saint-Lazare, officially Paris Saint-Lazare, is one of the seven large mainline railway station terminals in Paris, France. It was the first railway station built in Paris, opening in 1837. It primarily serves train services to the western suburbs, as well as intercity services to Normandy via the Paris–Le Havre railway. Saint-Lazare is the third busiest station in France, after the Gare du Nord and Gare de Lyon. It handles 290,000 passengers each day. The current station building opened in 1889 and was designed by architect Juste Lisch; the maître d'œuvre (general contractor) was Eugène Flachat. (Wikipedia)

Prima EL2P at Saint Lazare

I'm on my way to Saint Cloud

There is a short walk from the train station to the park

The park is located on the site of the Château de Saint-Cloud, a residence of royal and imperial families from the 16th century. After Napoleon III declared war on the Prussians, the site was occupied by a Prussian force, which used the high outcropping to shell Paris. Counter-fire from the French caused the building to burn on 13 October 1870, as well as considerable damage to the town of Saint-Cloud. The structure was completely razed in August 1892, politicians under the Third Republic believing it represented a reminder of France's imperial past. Only a few outbuildings remain from the original structure. The park contains a Le Nôtre-designed garden in the French style, an English landscape garden, and Marie Antoinette's rose garden. The park offers a panoramic view of Paris known as "La Lanterne," or the "Lantern of Demosthenes". In 1999, a winter storm heavily damaged the park's forests. Some of the fallen trees' remains were later used in an art exhibition at the Orangerie in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. (Wikipedia)

The music video for the song Nothing Compares 2 U, performed by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor in 1990, was filmed by British director John Maybury in the park of Saint-Cloud.

Apollo

Venus

On my way to the metro station, crossing the river Seine

Metro line 10

Terminus station of line 10

Paris Métro Line 10 is one of the sixteen currently open métro lines in Paris, France. The line links Boulogne–Pont de Saint-Cloud, in Boulogne-Billancourt, to the Gare d'Austerlitz, traveling under the rather bourgeois neighborhoods of the Rive Gauche — the southern half of Paris — the 16th arrondissement and the neighbouring commune of Boulogne-Billancourt. The line runs entirely underground and stretches 11.7 kilometres (7.3 mi) across 23 stations. It has the least traffic of the fourteen main metro lines, excluding lines 3bis and 7bis. (Wikipedia)

Inside the MF 67 metro car

The MF 67 (French: Métro Fer appel d'offres de 1967; English: Steel-wheeled metro ordered in 1967) is a fleet of steel-wheel electric multiple unit trains for the Paris Métro. The first MF 67 trains entered service on Line 3 in June 1968, and became one of the biggest orders for the Métro, with 1,482 cars constructed. The need to replace the Sprague-Thomson fleet, as well as increasing costs associated with the later-cancelled plan to introduce rubber-tyred trains on all Métro lines, were the main factors for the size of the order. (Wikipedia)