It seems that your channel has single handedly revived interest in this historical artifact. Coupled with the tremendous efforts of the volunteers, hopefully this can keep going.
I live not far from Noisy-le-Grand, and when I was a child I used to watch a lot of things about public transport in the Ile-de-France region, and I remember being fascinated about the SK. So when I saw his video about the temporary opening I was I had missed that (since it is unique), but now I hope there will be more tour ! And I will go to the exposition too !
He's not the one who actually revived interest, people are just interested in general and it's the support of the French people that's bringing it back, not thousands of English speakers that will never contribute a dime to the subway.
"The station that was build for a construction project that didn't happen was then demolished for a construction project that did happen" has to be the most tim traveller comment ever. I like how you research and highlight these little events and bring them to a bigger audience.
Only you could make me interested in an abandoned railway I care nothing about, will almost certainly never see, and whose existence or the lack thereof affects me in no tangible way- well done!
Always love trying to figure out the background tunes and how they link to the section of the video: “Come on Feel the Noise” and “Blinding Lights” were perfect choices for this video!
I didn't know “Blinding Lights” but I could tell it was a particular tune with a particular connection. “Come on Feel the Noise” = "“Come Down and See Le Noisy Station”, brilliant. The piano that starts around 1:08 as Tim talks about the exhibition is the music that was played on the kids TV programme "Take Hart" in the 70s. :) ua-cam.com/video/46i3A-nInTs/v-deo.html
I don't care if it's safe or not, I don't want them to hurt themselves but "it's not safe" is bureaucracies way of keeping people from discovering stupidity and wrong doing, or just keeping public places "Private".
They use low Subskription youtubers to check if the monsters at the end of the tunnels are still alive. This one, shaped like a pile of sand, obviously wasn't.
I suspect there might have been issues with it being a pretty damn long, very secluded and basically deserted (most of the time) place, even if it were to be well lit and full of security cams...
Hello! I'm here at Palacio de Abraxas, the least used station on the Noisy-le-grand pod metro network. I'm toold, by the silent station master with no eyes, that a pod is due any moment now. There it is! I did initially think that there would be a lot of pods coming, one after the other, but he assures me that this is how it should be. Wow, that actually physically hurts to look at. I'll just peek through my fingers. An unusual amount of screaming and blood for a system like this, so quite quirky. Let's go.
@@inwalters 😆 Indeed -- and you can also hear it in his video on the old, mostly-abandoned part of Goussanville: ua-cam.com/video/DD_AK9_b8bA/v-deo.html .
I absolutely love the idea of this quirky line - such a shame that it didn’t ever happen but thank you for taking us down there (and thank you for the epic music too!)
Your videos are the type where they're perfectly bite sized to watch while eating, but so interesting that you haven't eaten a single bite by the time you get to the end.
I love this! It’s so cool that they invited you to see the exhibit and take another tour. Getting to see the whole tunnel was especially fascinating, even if it just ends in a pile of dirt.
Thanks for this one ! A French UA-camr "Clé 2 Berne" also made a video about the SK shortly after your first one. I definitely recommend his video and if you like trains, his entire channel. Who knows, maybe you'll find some more ideas of stuff to visit ;)
I'm convinced that Tim chooses his music to increase the video view count - because the first time I watch the video, I'm so distracted trying to work out what the music is that I then have to watch it again to actually listen to the content...
Music choices are absolutely on point once again. Although I will now probably struggle to get Blinding Lights out of my head again for the next week, so thanks for that. 😄
Hello guys, I just want to say that I live in noisy-le-grand since I was born and thanks to your video I know now what's at the bottom of this tunnel. Your video is very interesting
I love your voice! Your sense of humour and ability to engage any subject and make it far more interesting than it would otherwise,... you're the best!
Well done Tim for helping the renewed interest in this line. Stranger things than building something and then demolishing it before it is used have happened but only in France!
so weird, i love it! the whole town of Noisy-le-Grand is actually really weird, may be the subject for a future video?... FYI, i rode the SK in Shanghai, strange experience, with a light show in the tunnel!...
I lived in that town for the last year and i didnt knew about it . But overall, lovely town next to a river. Really great for people who want to live out of Paris. Amazing parcs like Champs sur Marne
it was already weird watching your first video about noisy when i just moved here, it's even weirder watching you talk about the very building i'm living in... if you ever want to see the other side of the wall, feel free to reach out! (event though it's just a run of the mill undergroud parking garage...)
Damn you Timothy, I always have to watch your videos twice! Once for the content, which is always magnificent, and again to try and identify the background tunes, all of which are familiar yet difficult for an old git like me to identify.
litarelly everytime I'm wathing a TTT video I think "wow I love this channel so much" and hit the like button I can't really explain... it's just one of my favorites yt channels ever ❤️
As always, your music choice is excellent. I didn't realise you could make puns using instrumental cover background music until I started watching your channel.
Noisy also has near there the Abraxas Palace which is a housing complex designed by Riccardo Bofill, it's so iconic and bizarre it has been featured in many dystopian films including Terry Gilliam's Brazil and recent Hunger games movie. It's quite interesting, unfortunately the area isn't very safe (true to it's dystopian appearance I guess) so I'm not sure I'd recommend the visit. Shame because many people would be interested. Similar and also interesting are Picasso arenas.
Both the Picasso arenas and the Abraxas Palace have this futuristic but 80s look. I passed by Abraxas recently and it just felt surreal, I wouldn't know how to describe it. But please don't go there alone or at night :')
actually as a foreigner or tourist it's not safe at all, even if you're used to live there you're still scared lol. and i must admit that it's not interesting at all because the architecture is very dilapidated now everything is very dirty and badly maintained and there's not much to see. but if you're interested in the architectural buildings of noisy there's the high school Evariste Galois which is built on the shape of a clock when seen from the air you can go and see it on the internet :)
On the subject of Pods, there’s the Heathrow Pods opened a long time ago. Was it somewhere North France they used the pod system. I can’t remember whether that’s the system was both underground and overground. Also the Muni (university pod system) still open?
My raised-in-France, fully francophone brain: Noisy. it's pronounced Nwa-zee. My exhausted-by-work Englishman's brain: No, it's very clearly noisy. I wonder what Tim has found out about that makes so much noise under ground?
Seeing as it was built for a construction project that did happen it would have made sense with the later construction project which did happen to have reopened the metro using something like the Ultra Pods they have at Heathrow Airport.
Wow never I would had imagine that someone would make a full video about the small city where I live I've been living here since I was 5 and I've never visited the tunnel of the SK Btw it was a great video you have my sub
Is there any chance of getting a list of the background music you made and/or used? I feel like I'm close to getting the musical references but they're just barely out of reach when they're played on piano and accordeon.
Now you need to find a way to visit the "subway station, that will never be used" sitting under the Quatre Temps Shopping Center Car Park at the other end of Paris ( in La Défense )
The fact the tunnel was there beforehand makes a lot more sense. Tunnelling is so extortionately expensive that you'd never use it to put in an otherwise "Cheap option" (rather than as you said in the other video a bus!)
Dear Tim, since I found your video on UA-cam, I like it alot. They are funny and yet at the same time intellectual and informativ. I have some ideas that might interest you: - A video about the Berlin Pedestrian Traffic Light in conjuunction with the Building of the Berlin Hbf (Mainstation) and Berlin Wall in Germany - A video about the Lötschberg Tunnel & the Lötschberg Basis Tunnel in Switzerland. - A video about the Gotthard Tunnel & the Gotthard Basis Tunnel Switzerland. - A video about the Simplon Tunnel between Switzerland and Italy. - A video why the world have different Train Tack gauges. What do you think? Take care and keep on doing those funny, fantasic video… Many thanks Ken 🤗
It seems that your channel has single handedly revived interest in this historical artifact. Coupled with the tremendous efforts of the volunteers, hopefully this can keep going.
I live not far from Noisy-le-Grand, and when I was a child I used to watch a lot of things about public transport in the Ile-de-France region, and I remember being fascinated about the SK. So when I saw his video about the temporary opening I was I had missed that (since it is unique), but now I hope there will be more tour ! And I will go to the exposition too !
He seems to do that.😂
the project to revive one of the station as an art and music place was started years ago. It got postponed by Covid.
there's an English wikipedia page now, I translated the French one.
He's not the one who actually revived interest, people are just interested in general and it's the support of the French people that's bringing it back, not thousands of English speakers that will never contribute a dime to the subway.
The Tim Traveller version of the BBC News theme is definitely my new favourite.
I hope he publishes it on abandoned rugs
Took me a while to place it, and it's one of my favourite pieces of music! News rave!
I thought it was the Apocalypse Rave theme!
There's also accordion versions of Cum on Feel the Noize and Blinding Lights, plus a piano rendition of Left Bank One.
@@mittfh >>Feel the Noize
"The station that was build for a construction project that didn't happen was then demolished for a construction project that did happen" has to be the most tim traveller comment ever.
I like how you research and highlight these little events and bring them to a bigger audience.
reminds me of some french projects i've partaken in:)
@@sanches2 France doesn't exist.
Would have been cool to actually start using that system.
Only you could make me interested in an abandoned railway I care nothing about, will almost certainly never see, and whose existence or the lack thereof affects me in no tangible way- well done!
deja vu comment?
Always love trying to figure out the background tunes and how they link to the section of the video: “Come on Feel the Noise” and “Blinding Lights” were perfect choices for this video!
Don’t forget the BBC Beep at the end!😂
I didn't know “Blinding Lights” but I could tell it was a particular tune with a particular connection. “Come on Feel the Noise” = "“Come Down and See Le Noisy Station”, brilliant.
The piano that starts around 1:08 as Tim talks about the exhibition is the music that was played on the kids TV programme "Take Hart" in the 70s. :) ua-cam.com/video/46i3A-nInTs/v-deo.html
Thank you, I was wondering about the name of the song because the melody sounded familiar.
@@MatthewMcVeagh 3:16 is Blinding Lights
How exciting. I wish more UA-camrs could get permission to see abandoned locations when safe.
I don't care if it's safe or not, I don't want them to hurt themselves but "it's not safe" is bureaucracies way of keeping people from discovering stupidity and wrong doing, or just keeping public places "Private".
@@metricstormtrooper I am more than willing for you to go places that aren't safe. Please.
They use low Subskription youtubers to check if the monsters at the end of the tunnels are still alive. This one, shaped like a pile of sand, obviously wasn't.
You could also do it without permission, like Beno
Imagine if they'd connected the residential building to the tunnel so the residents could have their own private path to the train station.
That was my first thought, even without the pods it still could have been a pedestrian walkway to the Paris metro
I suspect there might have been issues with it being a pretty damn long, very secluded and basically deserted (most of the time) place, even if it were to be well lit and full of security cams...
I was half expecting you to find Geoff Marshall at the other end...
Hello! I'm here at Palacio de Abraxas, the least used station on the Noisy-le-grand pod metro network. I'm toold, by the silent station master with no eyes, that a pod is due any moment now. There it is! I did initially think that there would be a lot of pods coming, one after the other, but he assures me that this is how it should be. Wow, that actually physically hurts to look at. I'll just peek through my fingers. An unusual amount of screaming and blood for a system like this, so quite quirky. Let's go.
He was behind all the rubble.
"Come on feel the NOISE" played on the accordion as the backing track is genius-level humour in my humble opinion.
for me the music as a bit to well. especially that part. I forgot to listen to Tim. I was just focusing on the music.
Your musical choices/arrangements are inspired! It always makes my day to see another video uploaded. Thanks, Tim.
I know, right? "Cum on Feel the Noize" by Slade on accordion was something I never knew I needed to hear.
Cmon feel the noisy le grand
@@inwalters 😆 Indeed -- and you can also hear it in his video on the old, mostly-abandoned part of Goussanville: ua-cam.com/video/DD_AK9_b8bA/v-deo.html .
@@inwalters Huh, I never knew the Quiet Riot version was a cover. Thanks for posting that.
I absolutely love the idea of this quirky line - such a shame that it didn’t ever happen but thank you for taking us down there (and thank you for the epic music too!)
Even if it had happened the system had a very low capacity. It doubt it would have been very sucessful. But I agree it looks very cool !
There must be some ferocious cats living in that area. It's hard to imagine such a tunnel with no rats! 😁
Rats need to eat something. There could be martens or bats, but very unlikely rats.
Your videos are the type where they're perfectly bite sized to watch while eating, but so interesting that you haven't eaten a single bite by the time you get to the end.
3:07 Is that a French accordion version of "Blinding Lights"? SO BRILLIANT!!
Recognized it, yes !
I did not know I needed an accordion version of the BBC News countdown theme. Fantastic!
Come on, feel the Nois(y-le-Grand)!
Please release your BBC News accordion theme standalone! I want to listen to it on loop all day ☺️
Try this playlist for a fix of David Lowe's magnificent theme. ua-cam.com/play/PLP9sylNlf_sv0su7jMWvR0XzBKTs6HKjS.html
Go watch Tim travellers other channel, abandonedrugs for his music excellence
Thank you Tim, I really enjoy seeing your content every fortnight. Your curiosity and wonder adds a sparkle to the everyday and forgotten.
I love this! It’s so cool that they invited you to see the exhibit and take another tour. Getting to see the whole tunnel was especially fascinating, even if it just ends in a pile of dirt.
The BBC theme cover had me rolling. 10/10 work!
I love the stereotypical accordion music, both the BBC countdown thing and especially the waltz interpretation of "Blinding Lights".
The subtle jokes in your choice of background music is just perfect. Keep it up!
Thanks for this one !
A French UA-camr "Clé 2 Berne" also made a video about the SK shortly after your first one. I definitely recommend his video and if you like trains, his entire channel. Who knows, maybe you'll find some more ideas of stuff to visit ;)
No way! You put my question in your video!!! 😀😀😀
It was a great question!
@@TheTimTraveller Thanks for the video response. Of course I have been down the rabbit hole of trying to find out all I can now about this system now.
This is exactly why I love your channel Tim. Something clearly odd and interesting that will carry on being odd and interesting so worthy of update.
"C'mon Feel The Noisy"!! Fantastic choice of music!
I'm convinced that Tim chooses his music to increase the video view count - because the first time I watch the video, I'm so distracted trying to work out what the music is that I then have to watch it again to actually listen to the content...
Music choices are absolutely on point once again. Although I will now probably struggle to get Blinding Lights out of my head again for the next week, so thanks for that. 😄
I thought the music felt familiar
Hello guys, I just want to say that I live in noisy-le-grand since I was born and thanks to your video I know now what's at the bottom of this tunnel. Your video is very interesting
C'est un truc de fou qu'il y'ai de video comme ca sur notre ville
3:25 Is that music in the background seriously a „frenched“ accordion version of „blinding lights“ from „The Weeknd“? 😁👍
3:07 cheeky playing Blinding Lights there
I love your voice! Your sense of humour and ability to engage any subject and make it far more interesting than it would otherwise,... you're the best!
Wow, spooky tunnel. I also love playing 'Name that tune' with your videos. :)
The music is so appropriate. Excellent stuff. Don't stop making these videos.
Loving the “come on feel the noise” harpsichord
Always love your music choices and renditions, but this video has especially good music! Cracking video again Tim.
3:39 The weeknd Blinding Lights on the accordion? Love it Tim! 😆✌
THAT'S MY CITY LET'S GOOOOOOO... I don't know who you are but I'm glad someone talks about that metro. Thank you
Well done Tim for helping the renewed interest in this line. Stranger things than building something and then demolishing it before it is used have happened but only in France!
Apart from the very interesting topic of the past's future, the music was closely tied with the context, amazing! :D
Thanks for the update Tim and a big thanks for that snippet of the excellent "Cum on feel the noize".
so weird, i love it! the whole town of Noisy-le-Grand is actually really weird, may be the subject for a future video?... FYI, i rode the SK in Shanghai, strange experience, with a light show in the tunnel!...
You probably need to visit the abandoned tunnels under La Défense, regarding which there seem to be a number of projects.
I love to see these kind of strange abandoned things!
I lived in that town for the last year and i didnt knew about it . But overall, lovely town next to a river. Really great for people who want to live out of Paris. Amazing parcs like Champs sur Marne
it was already weird watching your first video about noisy when i just moved here, it's even weirder watching you talk about the very building i'm living in... if you ever want to see the other side of the wall, feel free to reach out! (event though it's just a run of the mill undergroud parking garage...)
I noticed the BBC Countdown music! Nice touch, Tim!!!
The music in this video is spot on, well done Sir!
Damn you Timothy, I always have to watch your videos twice! Once for the content, which is always magnificent, and again to try and identify the background tunes, all of which are familiar yet difficult for an old git like me to identify.
Thank you Tim for yet another interesting video. Always waiting for new material
3:08 Tim: Ok, my camera is clearing struggling with this (almost pitch black video)
Background music: Blinding Lights
litarelly everytime I'm wathing a TTT video I think "wow I love this channel so much" and hit the like button
I can't really explain... it's just one of my favorites yt channels ever ❤️
As always, your music choice is excellent. I didn't realise you could make puns using instrumental cover background music until I started watching your channel.
Come on Tim, we need the TIm Traveller soundtrack album for Xmas. We won’t tell the copywrite holders.
Wonderful as ever.
Thanks Tim
Thanks Tim!
Noisy also has near there the Abraxas Palace which is a housing complex designed by Riccardo Bofill, it's so iconic and bizarre it has been featured in many dystopian films including Terry Gilliam's Brazil and recent Hunger games movie.
It's quite interesting, unfortunately the area isn't very safe (true to it's dystopian appearance I guess) so I'm not sure I'd recommend the visit. Shame because many people would be interested. Similar and also interesting are Picasso arenas.
Both buildings really look like Star Wars cities they are incredible. But yeah, don't visit Abraxas at night.
Both the Picasso arenas and the Abraxas Palace have this futuristic but 80s look. I passed by Abraxas recently and it just felt surreal, I wouldn't know how to describe it.
But please don't go there alone or at night :')
It became a touristic destination.
It was named Gotham by the inhabitants. It’s pretty safe in reality.
actually as a foreigner or tourist it's not safe at all, even if you're used to live there you're still scared lol. and i must admit that it's not interesting at all because the architecture is very dilapidated now everything is very dirty and badly maintained and there's not much to see. but if you're interested in the architectural buildings of noisy there's the high school Evariste Galois which is built on the shape of a clock when seen from the air you can go and see it on the internet :)
@@_tikiboo i am from galois o:
I recognise that minute-long music at the start, hehe. Nice cover! As you do with plenty other melodies.
A nice update, thanks.
Always a good soundtrack on your videos!
On the subject of Pods, there’s the Heathrow Pods opened a long time ago. Was it somewhere North France they used the pod system. I can’t remember whether that’s the system was both underground and overground. Also the Muni (university pod system) still open?
Love your videos! Thanks.
Nice followup, thanks!
0:55 counts as a shoutout in a Tim video! I'm not really sure if anything I do again could ever top that! 😂
Thanks!
that was a great video {as always) but extra thanks for the BBC news!! that was amazing
and an appropriate Quiet Riot song playing in the background...nice!
My raised-in-France, fully francophone brain: Noisy. it's pronounced Nwa-zee.
My exhausted-by-work Englishman's brain: No, it's very clearly noisy. I wonder what Tim has found out about that makes so much noise under ground?
Me too.. What was it about that noisy le-Grand metro? I cant quite remember why it was noisy..
Hi man, that's cool to see you here, I live near Noisy-le-Grand, and I slept many times in the tunel. That was very nice. 👌
t’as dormi dans ce tunnel ???
@@_tikiboo ba j'habite à côté, donc avec des potes on se faisait des soirées et parfois on dormait dedans
Really Tim? "C'mon Feel the Noise" ?!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
i love how your describe what happened to and why, lol always entertaining is the Tim traveller
Seeing as it was built for a construction project that did happen it would have made sense with the later construction project which did happen to have reopened the metro using something like the Ultra Pods they have at Heathrow Airport.
And this is how you become brand ambassador for an abandoned transport system
Loving the Vision On picture gallery music!
loving the bbc journal télévisé jingle
You've been invited ? You're kind of a big star in that trade ! :)
I love your French flavoured BBC background music 😅 greetings from Orly !!
Nice to hear some Slade in the background music.
The end tune sounds like a french version of the BBC NEWS tune 😂 Love that 😂
I rode the Expo 86 version in Vancouver. It was a very short ride but I thought at the time that it was a very interesting idea.
I wonder if I did ride it when I was there way back when? My memories of attending it are surprisingly sparse.
Wow never I would had imagine that someone would make a full video about the small city where I live
I've been living here since I was 5 and I've never visited the tunnel of the SK
Btw it was a great video you have my sub
c’est une ville plus connue que tu le pense
Is there any chance of getting a list of the background music you made and/or used? I feel like I'm close to getting the musical references but they're just barely out of reach when they're played on piano and accordeon.
"And not just because they gave me free champagne."
Well, at least he admits the champagne had something to do with it.
Brilliant video sir.
great yet sad video 👍😢
the rubble pile at the end is like being underground in a Fallout game
Loved this. Keep it up. Needed the update from my favorite video
Now you need to find a way to visit the "subway station, that will never be used" sitting under the Quatre Temps Shopping Center Car Park at the other end of Paris ( in La Défense )
So, the rumbling in the background is why it is called the Noisy tunnel. Ba-dum tass!
I was just in Paris and was tempted to see if there was anything for this when the RER went through. Guess I should have.
Ha ha come on feel the noisy, also loving the jaunty accordion version of blinding lights.
The music references in this video are pure genius.
Merci Teo! lovely little follow on video :)
Tim you rock!
The fact the tunnel was there beforehand makes a lot more sense. Tunnelling is so extortionately expensive that you'd never use it to put in an otherwise "Cheap option" (rather than as you said in the other video a bus!)
thanks for sharing
If you ever make it to Cleveland, you should check out the Veterans Memorial subway, a abandoned train line here.
Half of the fun of watching your videos is guessing which songs you covered.
Dear Tim, since I found your video on UA-cam, I like it alot. They are funny and yet at the same time intellectual and informativ. I have some ideas that might interest you:
- A video about the Berlin Pedestrian Traffic Light in conjuunction with the Building of the Berlin Hbf (Mainstation) and Berlin Wall in Germany
- A video about the Lötschberg Tunnel & the Lötschberg Basis Tunnel in Switzerland.
- A video about the Gotthard Tunnel & the Gotthard Basis Tunnel Switzerland.
- A video about the Simplon Tunnel between Switzerland and Italy.
- A video why the world have different Train Tack gauges.
What do you think?
Take care and keep on doing those funny, fantasic video…
Many thanks
Ken 🤗
Cool you got so popular in France, Greetings from Belgium ! 😁
Is that the BBC News opening theme on accordion I hear at the beginning?
NO LIGHTS at all in the cars if the light in the tunnel goes out? Sounds like a perfect recipe for a horror movie in real life.