Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: 1988

Taken from the Rue Voltaire overbridge the support crew are pulling coal forward while 140C231 and its support coach are at the platform with the splendid roof of Troyes station behind. This former Chemin de fer de l'État, and subsequently SNCF engine was built by North British in 1916. The engine is preserved by AJECTA who organised the steam special to Troyes. Starting at the Gare de l'Est in Paris it ran via Melun, Montereau and Flamboin-Gouaix.

SNCF Class CC 72000 diesel 72079 pauses at the southern end of Troyes station en route to Mulhouse, Alsace. Postal workers have finished loading the mail and the tractor and trailers are pulling away. I had travelled on this train from Paris Gare de l'Est.

Taken from the Rue Voltaire overbridge the support crew are pulling coal forward while 140C231 takes water at the platform end in Troyes station. Starting at the Gare de l'Est in Paris we ran via Melun, Montereau and Flamboin-Gouaix.

The signalman has returned the fine Southern semaphore signal to danger and is opening the crossing gates as ex-War Department Austerity 0-6-0ST WD 191, built by Hunslet in 1952, disappears westward from Tenterden station with the train to Bodiam on the Kent & East Sussex Railway.

'Le Musée Français du Chemin de Fer' or "Cité du Train" these days. I'm not sure on which engine footplate this was taken, either 241 A1 or 232 U1 from the negative sequence. Perhaps someone else can identify it? Whatever, it certainly shows the spaciousness of the cab. I remember seeing those "Danger de Mort" signs on the railways the first time I went to France in the 60s and thinking it was a bit melodramatic. But of course now we have the same signs in English on our railways too!