This train join Cerbère to Metz and Strasbourg.

The prototype BB-8000 electric Bo-Bo built in 1947 is seen near Jonquires-St.Vincent with an eastbound woodchip train on the Nimes to Tarascon line. The production series of these locos were numbe... (more)

A battery of 'flat irons' stand at Valeciennes depot in northern France with Bo-Bo No BB-13033 nearest the camera and Co-Co No 14102 on the right. I believe there were a total of 323 of these 'Mon... (more)

The prototype PLM class 161-AE electric loco is seen at Chambery depot in 1963. This was the only loco of its type built in 1926 for the 1,500v DC lines.

A close-up view of one of the SNCF 'Monocabine' Bo-Bo electrics, irreverently known as 'Flat-irons' in the UK, has just passed the closed station at Arzviller with a southbbound freight train on t... (more)

One of the SNCF 'Monocabine' Bo-Bo electrics, now all withdrawn, has just passed the closed station at Stambach with a northbound freight train on the Strasbourg to Metz main line. It is running t... (more)

One of the 20 SNCF CC-65000 Co-Co diesel-electric locos, built in 1956-57 as class 0606DB, waits to leave Nantes with a passenger train.

In the days before TGVs, the 07.45 Paris Lyon to Nice express enters Dijon station behind 2D2-9119. There were 35 of these locos built for the SNCF in 1950-51 for working on the 1,500v DC lines.

BB8179 with a nortbound freight just south of Viviers at the right bank of the Rhône.

Once the starlocomotives with the most exclusive passengertrains of France during the fifties, during the nineties just good enough for freight. CC7128 passes Rochemaure on the right bank of the R... (more)

A eurostar train-set heads south towards the Channel Tunnel with a service from London to the continent. Despite being funded largely by tax-payers, the tunnel and associated infrastructure is mai... (more)