Gares de la ligne 4

gare Flamboin 22-10-2013
SNCF BiBi 82 513 arriving in gare de Troyes on 23-10-2013
Entrance hall of gare de Troyes. Tradition & respect for the past. 23-10-2013
The loveley station of Pont sur Seine closed for passengers with passing BiBi 82 503 on 23-10-2013
2013-10-23 gare Saint-Mesmin closed for passengers and freight with CC 72-190 speeds by
Closed for passengers gare Foulain and BiBi 82 504 on 24-10-2013

Ligne 4 Paris Est – Troyes – Chaumont – Chalindrey – Vesoul – Belfort

Infra 667-612 and sister 623 plus unknown third passing east bound near Chalmaison on 22-10-2013
Europorte 67-0004 going westwards near Chalmaison on 22-10-2013
At full speed CC 572-190 heading east bound near Chalmaison on 22-10-2013
SNCF CC272145 in attractive “en voyage”colours” heading towards Gare du l’Est in Paris here passing Flamboin-Gouaix at the deviation point for the branche towards Montereau (this 27,7 km freight line re-opened in 2012) on 22-10-2013 It was raining cats and dogs at that moment.
Rail operator VFLI operates with Vossloh Valencia E4000 lokomotives, here E4017 getting on the main line east wards at Flamboin-Gouaix 22-10-2013 These poweful 123 tonnes 6 axelled freight engines are 3178 Kw or 4325 Hp strong and good for a 120 Km/h top speed in the freight outfit. The line of Flamboin-Gouaix at Montereau, also called line of the East, is located in France, South of the Seine-et-Marne. About 27.7 km long. Closed for passengers before 1939 and freight traffic around 1980 it is recently re-opened completely. VFLI just comes from that Est & Midi connecting line.
Delayed by thirty minutes arriving early morning in Troyes, the second IC of the day to Paris Est. Resque (2)72186 is pulling 272148 with its 6 car Corail load. Troyes gare Wednesday 23-10-2013
SNCF CC 72018 at Basel SNCF on 7 August 1978
CC 72172 with its Corail IC heading westwards passing Nogent sur Seine on a bright moment on 23-10-2013
CC572138 passing Culmont – Chalindrey heading west 24-10-2013
On a rainy day a CC 72000 running towards Paris near Haute Amance on 25-10-2013
With bright autum leaves near Grattery CC 272151 on 26-10-2013
CC 172-186 on 26-10-2013 seen from the road to Raincourt near Cemboing, classic rail line and classic train.

This plus 400 kilometer line was the main Paris – Basel rail link before the TGV’s were introduced. Today its traffic is marginal. Operated mainly with the magnificent 4000 Hp CC72100 locomotives and BiBi diesel multiple units. The CC 72100 are expected to leave service in April 2014 and the Chalindrey depot and workshops are perhaps closed. Trains reach 160 km/h on parts of the line. In 2015 the whole line is expected to be electrified.

Market Divonne les Bains

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Seller with cheese from the Jura area 17-10-2009 Fromage des vache

Chemins de Fer de la Mure

History

The line was built between 1882 and 1886, to link Saint-Georges-de-Commiers and La Mure through a mountainous region of the department of Isère.

The 30 km. long, metre gauge line running from La Motte-d’Aveillans and La Mure and to a connection with the main line of the PLM railway at Saint-Georges-de-Commiers. The line was almost closed in the mid-1970s and if the country hadn’t been suffering an oil crisis the line would have met its end. Its life was extended by fifteen years, which proved to be its saviour. Unlike many other lines this became a tourist attraction which combines an area of industrial heritage with some of the finest scenery on any similar line on the continent.

The railway was electrified in 1903, using a symmetrical current power supply with two overhead lines at plus and minus 1200 volts direct current respectively. In 1950, this non-standard system was replaced with a conventional power supply with a single overhead line at 2400 volts direct current.

Coal traffic ceased in 1988, and most of the coal installations were demolished, the coal being transported by road. The SGLM found a new vocation in providing a tourist attraction and as a result, there remain all of the line’s historical installations, the workshops, forge, joinery shop, etc. The network’s departure and arrival stations were dependent on connections with the PLM railway’s Grenoble – Veynes line. The necessary facilities together with the transhipment platform for the automatic transfer of the coal from the SGLM coal cars to the trains operated by PLM (which became SNCF in 1938) were built adjacent to the PLM station, today the station for the Chemin de fer de La Mure. The trains of the railway now run at the leisurely pace of up to 30km/h.

Chemins des Fer de la Mure locomotive T9 places in front of its train St georges de Commiers on a Sunday afternoon in July 1982
Photostop at the tunnel entrance locomotive T9 in July 1982
16 July 1982
16 July 1982
16 July 1982

Southern France

SNCF BB 7220 with Renfe Talgo wagon set near Narbonne 12-9-1983
Tournay SNCF 9418 & 9443 waiting for their next pull duty to Capvern 20 July 1982
Tournay SNCF 9229 arriving and permanent way crew stops for lunch 20 July 1982
Capvern pushing duties for this steep gradient line in southern France 20 July 1982
7 September 1981 Capvern viaduct SNCF9300 pushing and pulling a Lourdes special back to Italy
BB 1609 July 1982
16 July 1982 BB 67359 before them line to grenoble was eledctrified with a night train to Paris

RER Paris

RER Z5 12-5-1984
RER Z5 post de commande 12-5-1984
19648 RER Z5 interieur 12-5-1984
RER Gare Arcueil Cachan 12-5-1984
RER Z5 gare Gif sur Ivette 14-5-1984
19764 RER Z 14-5-1984

Nice – Digne

CFD 17 Digne Gare July 1982
CFD 17 July 1982
CFD 17 July 1982
CFD 17 July 1982
CFD 17 July 1982
CFD 17 July 1982
CFD 17 July 1982
CFD 17 July 1982
CFD Nice depot 17 July 1982
Digne gare with connecting Alpazur SNCF RPG to Geneve, on 17 July 1982 – En 1983, la liaison prend officiellement le nom de “Alpazur”. Elle est assure par des rames RGP.
gare Veynes – Devoluy 17 July 1982
17-7-1982 Nice – Digne C.P. The old and very strange but beautiful station in Nice. It is a supermarket nowadays.
17-7-1982 Nice – Digne C.P. old freight car in Nice
17-7-1982 Nice – Digne C.P. car shed and workshop in Nice
17-7-1982 Nice – Digne C.P. train in La Vesubie
17-7-1982 Nice – Digne C.P. leaving Puget – Theniers
17-7-1982 Nice – Digne C.P. train halts at Puget – Theniers

Line 547 Villefranche – Vernet les Bens

15269 SNCF interchange at Villefrance Vernet les Bains 21 July 1982
15270 21July1982 Vilefrance Vernet les Bains SNCF narrow gauge.
15271 21July1982 Villefrance Vernet les Bains with old freight cars. Notice the wood covered third rail.
15275 21 July 1982 St Thomas les Bains SNCF meter gauge line
15273 21 July 1982 SNCF meter gauge at Canaveilles

HBL

Freyming Bobo LHB 04 on 28-3-1997

SNCF in 1997

28 March 1997 Faulquemont Gare
28 March 1997 Faulquemont diesel 67586 with a local service
27 March 1997 main line Metz Thionville emu type Z
28 August 1997 Faulquemont with DB 181 223 in my eyes the best designed German electric
28 March 1997 Woippy yard with 64708 and slave unit
near Woippy on the Metz – Thionville main line CC 15005 passes with an all Grand Comfort (ex TEE) train on 27 March 1997
BoBo 12091 on 27 March 1997 line Metz – Thionville near Woippy
SNCF CC 14183 on 27 March 1997 near Woippy with steel train
28 March 1997 main line Metz Thionville near Uckange with 26029 and freight. The smelter was already dead at this date.
CFL 1817 near Woippy on the Metz – Thionville main line 27 March 1997
At Falquemont BoBo 12088 passes with a coal train 27 March 1997 At that time some mines of BDL were still active in that area
SNCF 16685 neqar Woippy on the Metz – Thionville main line 27 March 1997

SNCF 1980-90

15278 21July1982 SNCF4183 AND 4114 at Aix les Thermes
(15352) 25 July 1982 Liesaint Moissy south of Paris were the first TGV line would start and an INOX emu arrives
SNCF 40108 Brussel Zuid on 25-7-1987
4 September 1981 near Roanne on the Lyon – Tour mainline with RTG turbo train
(02180) Hendaye the border station between France and Spain. Broad gauge Renfe 289 040 starts here on 22 July 1082 with a train to Madrid.
Rodez 3 September 1983
(02182) Bordeaux 23 July 1982 with CC 72025
SNCF motorcar and 67400 at Veynes – Devoluy 17 July 1982