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The Cité du Train (English: City of the Train or Train City), situated in Mulhouse, France, is one of the ten largest railway museums in the world. It is the successor to the Musée Français du Chemin de Fer (French National Railway Museum), the organisation responsible for the conservation of major historical SNCF railway equipment.
Delivered in 1949, it was retired from service in 1961. It has since been restored and is now preserved at the Cité du Train in Mulhouse, where it is fired up every 20–30 minutes in a display showing how connecting rods work to propel the locomotive. [1] [2]
Sectioned for Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, Paris 1937; static display, Cité du train, Mulhouse [36] 4.319 4.061–4.340
Crampton locomotives. 80 Le Continent preserved at Cité du train. [2] ... Ex CF Montereau–Troyes No. 5 Sézanne; static display, Cité du train, Mulhouse. 32031: ...
Mulhouse is a commune with a population of 108,312 in 2019. [5] This commune is part of an urban unit also named Mulhouse with 247,065 inhabitants in 2018. [3]Additionally Mulhouse commune is the principal commune of the 39 communes which make up the communauté d'agglomération of Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération (m2A, population 280,000 in 2020).
The Gare de Mulhouse-Ville, also known as Gare Centrale, [2] is the main railway station in the city of Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France. It is the eastern terminus of the Paris-Est–Mulhouse-Ville railway .
140.C.314 (NBL 21651 of 1917) owned by the Chemin de fer touristique du Vermandois (CFVT) and is used on its line. 140.C.344 (NBL 21581 of 1917) is part of Cité du train, Mulhouse; Only one Vulcan-built 140.C was saved (all Nasmyth, Wilson & Co. engines were scrapped) and none of the prewar engines (built in France) survived into preservation.
BB 9003 was built and delivered in 1952 and was the first French locomotive to be remote-controlled from the exterior of its train. [clarification needed] BB 9004 was built and delivered in 1954 and later set a rail speed record of 331 km/h (206 mph) on 29 March 1955 on the Landes line between Facture and Morcenx, France, [1] a day after SNCF 7107 did not exceed the actual speed of 325 km/h ...