Due to line works in spring 2010, the sleeper Nice - Strasbourg had been diverted via Culmont-Chalindrey - Vesoul to Belfort. A few minutes after sunrise CC 72163 pulls 14 sleeper and couchette ca... (more)
The line number 4 from Paris to Belfort in the east of France is still a line for diesel traction. Till this day the tracks are lined with old telegraph poles.
Sunshine illuminates the fast train from Belfort to Paris.
The IC1848 with leading unit CC72145 is passing Coulevon in direction of Vesoul. The Line between Belfort and Paris - the so called "ligne4" - was once a major mainline. Nowadays the traffic has r... (more)
The "Ligne 4" was once the mainline between Paris and Mulhouse - a double track line with up to 160km/h speed, but never electrified. Nowadays it has lost many of its traffic to new TGV lines. Nev... (more)
Belfort - Paris Inter City train 1944. Not anymore trains are stopping at the station at Vitrey-sur-Mance, a scene you can often see around France nowadays.
A Paris - Belfort Inter City train leans into a curve, not far from its next station stop at Vesoul.
Most of its way still ahead, Inter City train 1848 dashes toward Paris with Vosges mountains as a backdrop.
30 CC 72000 were renumbered CC 72100 with a new V16 2650 kW SEMT PIELSTICK prime mover instaled between 2002 an 2004. Mulhouse to Paris Intercity.
An Intercity train in the last october light.
In France, the "vallée de l'amance" is one of the most popular train spot. here is the train n° 1044 for "Paris gare de l'Est"
