French Minor Railways
Author | : W. J. K. Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Railroads, Local and light |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : W. J. K. Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Railroads, Local and light |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494956899 |
This is the third selection of French minor railway and this time they are all metre gauge simply because they are lines that I find most appealing. They range from little independent tramways serving a local community for a few years and then quietly disappearing to sections of large networks that nevertheless were no better equipped to cope with the challenges of the 1930's. I hope you enjoy the lines I have chosen; they are varied and attractive, all typically French yet all different and distinctive.
Author | : Peter Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2014-01-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494911133 |
In this second volume of French Minor Railways I have again tried to present a selection of lines that are little known yet repay study in so many ways....there are lines in the mountains, lines in the flatlands around Paris, a line running into Versailles and another that was for the sole use of the Emperor. I have included all the pictures that I can find, nearly all of them from old postcards from the 1900 to 1914 period when thankfully the village or town station was one of the features the local postcard photographer always tried to include. Without them many of these lines would have disappeared into the mists of time....a lot of them closed beyond living memory and traces on the ground are few. Many of them simply ran along the verge of a convenient road so trying to trace the route is all but impossible, especially if road improvements have taken place since the line closed. The postcards are a lifeline, our window into a vanished age when the speed of a metre gauge train was as fast as most people needed to travel.
Author | : Peter Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494807085 |
This book illustrates seven French secondary railways, five narrow gauge and two standard gauge, in the hope that modellers may be inspired to recreate some of the wonderful scenes. There are tiny stations squeezed into the streets of towns, rural stations with hardly a house to be seen in any direction, busy lines and barely surviving lines and one line that should certainly never have been built. From that to a line that once ran right into Paris and you have a wide enough selection to tempt anyone. I won't be held responsible though....be warned, these little French railways are highly addictive!
Author | : W.J.K. Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2000-10-01 |
Genre | : Narrow gauge railroads |
ISBN | : 9781871980455 |
Author | : Patrick Bennett |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2020-03-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445690985 |
A fascinating A-Z photographic guide to the railways of France. Using the authors own photographs as well as historic postcard views.
Author | : Bill Bryson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780786220038 |
The author describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his disconcerting reunion with his homeland
Author | : Peter Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2013-01-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781481888394 |
Life is hard on a French narrow gauge railway in the 1950's, but at the little Picardy coastal town of St Jean sur Mer life goes on much as it always has. The station still has an important role to play in the life of the town, and these short stories chronicle proceedings there in the Summer of 1958. Jacques Rodin is the 'Chef de Gare', and he has many crosses to bear- what with managing to lose the engine shed one night, being chased by the formidable Madame Pinot and still finding time to run the little station it is no wonder that he is one of the best customers of the Cafe Pierre.
Author | : Richard Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ina Caro |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0393343154 |
“I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James.”—Newsweek In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. “[An] enchanting travelogue” (Publishers Weekly), Paris to the Past has become one of the classic guidebooks of our time.