Treinen - Frankrijk: boeken - spoortrajecten en stations

Majorca and Corsica Narrow Gauge - Scenic Journeys on Two Mediterranean Islands

These Spanish and French islands in the Mediterranean Sea both possess extensive narrow gauge railway systems. Following a period of decline and threats of closure, they are now enjoying a renaissance with modern equipment and much modernisation of the infrastructure. By complete contrast Majorca is also home to an electrified scenic railway that still uses the same motive power that it has relied on for over 80 years.
This album records the changing fortunes of the railway systems of these attractive islands including many vintage views in addition to the contemporary scene.

Specificaties

Auteur:	John Organ
Uitvoering:	96 blz, 24 x 16.5 x 1.5 cm, harde kaft
Illustraties:	120 foto's, kaarten
Taal:	Engels
Uitgever:	Middleton Press (GB, 2013)
ISBN:	9781908174413

French Metre Gauge Survivors : Scenic Journeys Through Rural France

France was once dissected by a huge eclectic array of Metre Gauge Railways. Only a few examples remain, some of which are only relatively short sections of the former systems.

These are now largely attuned to the tourist industry. However these survivors do amply portray the lines of yesteryear, as they traverse the beautiful and contrasting French countryside.

Specificaties

Auteur:	John Organ
Uitvoering:	96 blz, 24 x 17.5 x 1.1 cm, harde kaft
Illustraties:	120 z/w foto's
Taal:	Engels
Uitgever:	Middleton Press (GB, 2016)
ISBN:	9781908174888

Arrêt sur images 1950-1980 - par Jacques Defrance

This book retraces "in pictures" the career of Jacques Defrance, industrial designer at CEM (Cie Electro-Mécanique), better known as the creator of works on SNCF motor equipment, published since 1968 by La Vie du Rail.
For forty-seven years, always accompanied by his faithful camera bodies, Jacques Defrance scoured the French railway network in search of unusual images or new things.

The authors have set out to unearth some 300 unpublished photos from the 9,000 contained in the railway collection. Mainly in black and white, more timidly in colour, they show the sites, machines and eras that Jacques Defrance was fond of, such as the French metric railways, the Breton network, the Corrèze PO, the Canari, the Saint-Gervais, Paris and its suburbs, the end of steam, that of the Bastille line or the arrival of new equipment.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Denis Redoutey, Guy Defrance
Uitvoering:	145 blz, 27 x 22 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	300 z/w- en kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	La Vie du Rail (F, 2014)
ISBN:	9782370620057

Au fil du Rhône en train

From the Swiss glaciers to the Camargue, the Rhône, initially a torrent, became a powerful river whose course has now been tamed.
Thanks to the furrow it dug in Switzerland and France, the railway was able to penetrate first into the heart of the Alps, then open up the path to the gates of the Mediterranean and the Orient in the northern regions of France.

The book presents this magnificent waterway and the railway lines that accompany it for almost its entire journey to the sea, with trains only leaving it to reach Marseille in the Bouches du Rhône department.
So, be careful when setting off on a train journey along the Rhône, in the Alps, on the shores of Lake Geneva, between the Massif Central and the Pre-Alps, and in the Provence.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Jean Tricoire
Uitvoering:	160 blz, 28 x 22.5 x 2 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd met kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	La Vie du Rail (F, 2017)
ISBN:	9782370620651

Il y a 50 ans... Paris-Bastille

December 14, 1969... 50 years ago, the Bastille station disappeared. The line to Boissy-Saint-Léger, now operated by the RATP from the new Nation station, became the first regional express network, the RER A. The Reuilly, Bel-Air and Saint-Mandé stations have disappeared from the local landscape, as have the old steam locomotives and their "wagon green" cars that dominated Paris on the famous Daumesnil viaduct. On this wintery December day, 110 years went up in smoke...

This work is the memory of this endearing line, with its popular environment, made up of artisans, small businesses, modest buildings...
The author has brought together numerous images, documents, unpublished plans, highlighting the atmosphere of the stations on the Vincennes line, whose soul resided in its old-fashioned and timeless style, inviting the reader to combine the past with the present.

Please note: This book is very different from "Paris, la ligne de Vincennes", another book by the author, published in 2006. It only deals with the part from Paris-Bastille to Boissy-Saint-Léger on the one hand essentially during the decade of the 1960s, that is to say as this line was 50 years ago when it disappeared on December 13, 1969.
On the other hand, of the approximately 320 images, documents and objects presented, approximately 300 are unpublished iconography! As for the form of the book, it has nothing to do with the previous one. Finally, it presents and emphasizes the environment of the stations and the Bastille line.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Didier Leroy
Uitvoering:	160 blz, 27 x 22 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	300 foto's
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	La Vie du Rail (F, 2020)
ISBN:	9782370620873

La Chapelle 1846-2013 : Des machines et des hommes

This book tells the long and rich history of the La Chapelle depot, opened in the mid-19th century by the Compagnie du chemin de fer du Nord, at the foot of the Butte Montmartre, and which closed its doors more than a century and a half later.
This depot shone with its know-how applied to steam locomotives, then to speed service thanks to the famous "big wheels". At the controls, the heroes of the steam era: men with faces blackened with soot, devoted to "their" locomotives.

La Chapelle was then converted to modern traction (diesel, electric) for "speed" traffic and the suburbs. It was finally on January 25, 2013 that the Paris depot was officially closed. Ground Control in 2015, then Grand Train in 2016 are the final episodes of its history.
A railway saga immortalized in this work with exceptional iconography, a tribute to a duo specific to the railway: machines and men.

Specificaties

Uitvoering:	144 blz, 28 x 21.5 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd met z/w- en kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	La Vie du Rail (F, 2016)
ISBN:	9782370620446

La côte d'Azur - Balade en bord de mer 1955-1985

This volume XIX of "Images de trains" invites you to browse an album of railway memories of the Côte d'Azur, between La Ciotat and Vintimille: from the sailors of Toulon to the flamboyant Estérel massif, from the Croisette to the Baie des Anges and from the radiant Principality of Monaco to the Italian border where the Alps taste of the Mediterranean, you will discover the diversity of landscapes and atmospheres that were offered to travelers as far as the Riviera...

The authors stopped at the "Mistral years". The Mistral, undoubtedly the most prestigious train of the SNCF, always at the forefront of technical developments in the areas of comfort and speed, linked Nice to Paris between 1952 and 1982.

To illustrate these rich hours, they drew on the photographic collection of the famous weekly La Vie du Rail and selected the best color shots.
Contemplating with them the Côte d'Azur in the colors of the Mistral is to witness the changes in the landscapes and the railway universe of a region that is still as attractive as ever.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Paul-Henri Bellot, Serge Coccoz
Uitvoering:	160 blz, 32 x 24 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd met kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	La Vie du Rail (F, 2011)
Serie:	Images de trains (19)
ISBN:	9782918758242

La France des lignes oubliées - Ces 80 ans qui modifièrent le visage du train en France

At its peak, in the late 1920s, the main French rail network had more than 42,000 kilometers of lines open to passenger traffic, it is less than 30,000 today. This formidable network, which irrigated France even in its most remote corners, shrank like shagreen leather from the 1930s and even more thirty years later, during the great wave of closures.
The priority given to the development of the automobile sounded the death knell for the small lines crisscrossed by two-tone omnibuses. The stations closed, the rails disappeared under wild vegetation, the land lost its train.

This book recounts in detail the inexorable contraction of the French rail network before the partial takeover of traffic by the Regions. Images, maps, figures, testimonies to know everything about these lines that fell asleep in pain on French soil.

Specificaties

Uitvoering:	160 blz, 27 x 22 cm, harde kaft
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd met z/w- en kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	La Vie du Rail (F, 2013)
ISBN:	9782918758662

Le chemin de fer de la Baie de Somme

On December 31, 1972, the last departmental network open to travelers in the Somme Bay area disappeared.
However, when one story ends, another begins thanks to a group of young railway enthusiasts who embarked on the takeover of the two Noyelles-Cayeux and Noyelles-Le Crotoy lines in a tourist form.

The only associative structure that manages a tourist railway of this importance in France, the Baie de Somme railway has become a major tourist structure on the Picardy coast, welcoming nearly 130,000 travelers each year on 27 kilometers of rail network.
Tracing this railway epic, the book will also allow the reader to discover the history, geography, biodiversity and heritage of the Baie de Somme throughout the pages and during the journey. In collaboration with the CFBS.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Maurice Testu
Uitvoering:	96 blz, 21 x 15 x 0.7 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	La Vie du Rail (F, 2013)
ISBN:	9782918758730

Les petits trains de Ch'Nord - Histoire des voies ferrées d'intérêt local du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais

The most complete work on the secondary metre-gauge lines of Anvin-Calais, Aire-Berck and the Compagnie des chemins de fer des Flandres. Many unpublished photographs, plans of equipment and installations.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Claude Wagner
Uitvoering:	280 blz, 28.5 x 21 cm, harde kaft
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	LR Presse (F, 2011)
ISBN:	9782903651671

Les trains de nos campagnes - Années 1960 - Lignes à voie étroite

In the aftermath of the Second World War, secondary railways comprised more than 8,000 kilometres of tracks, most of them narrow gauge, covered by steam trains and railcars serving rural areas neglected by the "main" railway.

But by 1960, these trains had almost all disappeared, victims of the rapid motorisation of the countryside and competition from roads.
The author travelled through most of the surviving networks at that time. His photographs, all unpublished, are a valuable testimony to the changes of that decade.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Christian Buisson
Uitvoering:	200 blz, 23 x 16 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	Editions Alan Sutton (F, 2020)
ISBN:	9782813811912

Paris-Strasbourg - De la Compagnie de l'Est au TGV

A strategic issue and theatre of conflicts between France and Germany from 1870 to 1945, no other major line has had such a unique and too often dramatic history. Departing from the Gare de l'Est, we speed along at the rhythm of steam towards the Marne, the lands of Champagne, Lorraine and Alsace.
Perhaps you will be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the famous and unforgettable Mountain locomotives of the Compagnie de l'Est...

Jean-Pierre Rigouard is a tireless cartophile. Passionate about the history of the French railway, he could not miss the railway event of 2007: the opening of the high-speed line between Paris and Strasbourg.
The author draws up a panorama that is both historical and technical of the route, stations and machines.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Jean-Pierre Rigouard
Uitvoering:	128 blz, 23 x 16 x 0.7 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd met z/w foto's
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	Editions Alan Sutton (F, 2006)
ISBN:	9782849105504

Paysages ferroviaires français

This album of railway photographs is entirely devoted to the unpublished collection of a man that train enthusiasts know well. An aviation officer working for the Air France company; Guy Rannou was an excellent photographer.
Passionate about the railway world, he crisscrossed France for fifty years to capture snapshots of trains crossing the French landscapes, particularly on secondary lines.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Guy Rannou, Yves Broncard
Uitvoering:	160 blz, 32.5 x 24.5 x 1.6 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd met z/w- en kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	La Vie du Rail (F, 2013)
Serie:	Images de trains (23)
ISBN:	9782918758570

Sur les rails de Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur

This splendid album explores all aspects of the Provençal railway scene, from the major routes of the Rhone Valley, the Côte d'Azur and the TGV Méditerranée to the most daring mountain lines that rush towards Dauphiné and neighbouring Piedmont.
The region also had a large number of secondary railways including the legendary "Train des Pignes".

Specificaties

Auteur:	José Banaudo
Uitvoering:	280 blz, 32 x 24 x 2.2 cm, harde kaft
Illustraties:	653 z/w- en kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	Les Editions du Cabri (F, 2011)
ISBN:	9782914603539

Valenciennes-Thionville - La route du fer et du charbon

If there is a legendary line when we talk about freight traffic, Valenciennes - Thionville immediately stands out. A true umbilical cord of French heavy industry, linking two cradles of mining and steelmaking - the North and Lorraine - it has long been the artery carrying the largest tonnage of all French lines, not to mention the few transversal passenger trains such as the famous Calais - Basel.

Georges Marlier tells us about the adventures of this railway, from its construction to the end of steam, without forgetting the two wars where the line found itself in the foreground due to its location near the border.
He reviews the installations (stations, marshalling yards, depots, etc.) as well as the equipment, both from the Northern and Eastern companies and from the SNCF. The work ends with the electrification of the line in the mid-1950s, the first "large-scale" application of single-phase current at industrial frequency that would become the world reference.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Georges Marlier
Uitvoering:	288 blz, 30.5 x 22 x 2.3 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd
Taal:	Frans
Uitgever:	La Vie du Rail (F, 2009)
ISBN:	9782918758013