On one of four elevated platform stations on RATP's Number 2 Line, a M4 Sprague stock car leaves the station. The train is heading towards Nation Station, its terminus. The RATP (short for Regie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) succeeded the CMP (short for Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Metropolitain de Paris) in running the Paris Metro in 1948. The CMP had originally been chartered to operate the system in 1898.

Photographed by Paul Joyce, June, 1976.
Added to the photo archive by Paul Joyce, May 19, 2006.

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