An exceptional move

Everything is exceptional in this picture :
- This line is the “Petite Ceinture”, i.e. the little belt line of Paris. It is a formerly circular line loca... (more)

La rue Proudhon on a friday evening

From top to bottom:
- a TGV Duplex entering Paris Gare de Lyon on the flyover
- a TGVSE accelerating out of Paris Gare de Lyon on... (more)

One year before the end!
This is the "Gare de la Bastille" station near the Bastille square (named after the royal prison destroyed during the 1789 Revolution). The station served the "Vince... (more)

Last steam-hauled commuter train arriving at the Paris St Lazare terminal right after electrification.

The last Chapelon: This was the last time that a Chapelon Pacific arrived in Paris hauling a passenger train. These engines were the "queens" of the French Pacifics. A few are preserved, none of t... (more)

At Paris St Lazare in 1966, passenger trains are moved by steam, diesel and electric power. On the left, a suburban service with a 2-8-2T of the 141TD series leaves the station. On the center, a l... (more)

Near the end of the steam era, as the electrification poles are already appearing in the landscape, an "express" train for Le Havre is ready for departure with a beautiful "Pacific Etat". A brand ... (more)

A Paris Metrol crosses the Viaduc Austerlitz.

Here is another Paris suburban tank loco seen at the Gare St.Lazare in Paris around 1926. The ETAT 2-6-2T was working from Versailles depot. Scanned from a glass negative taken by O.J. Morris.

Following my two previous posts of suburban locos at Paris Nord we move on nearly ten years and see an almost brand new 2-8-2T waiting to leave the station with a push/pull train in 1935. These en... (more)

In contrast to the British built 4-6-4T that I posted just before this one, here is a French built 4-6-4T of the Nord Railway waiting to work a suburban train at the Gare du Nord in Paris. These e... (more)

One of the 14 British built 4-6-4Ts built by Beyer, Peacock & Co., originally from a batch of 40 destined for the Dutch State Railway but which were diverted to the ROD (Railway Operating Division... (more)

7245 passes Guillerval with 3913 Paris Austerlitz - Blois.