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Railway Empire is a railroad construction and management simulation game developed by Gaming Minds Studio and published by Kalypso Media. It was announced in early 2017 and released on 26 January 2018 for Linux and Microsoft Windows , 30 January 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and 14 February 2020 for Nintendo Switch.
The Saint-Étienne to Andrézieux railway (ligne de Saint-Étienne à Andrézieux) was the first public railway in France and continental Europe, granted by order of King Louis XVIII to Louis-Antoine Beaunier in 1823.
The Paris suburban rail services represents alone 82% of the French rail annual ridership. [1] [2] With a total of 100.2 billion passenger-kilometres, [1] [2] France has the fifth-most used passenger network worldwide, and second-most used in Europe after that of Russia. [8] France is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC).
France, egged on by inflammatory rhetoric from Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck, declared war on Prussia in July 1870.The French army, still using antiquated tactics and inflexible leadership from the time of Napoleon, proved no match for the Prussian army with its new general staff model of leadership, intensive training, and use of modern technologies such as railways and artillery.
' Railway Company of Paris to Lyon and the Mediterranean '), also known as the Chemins de fer Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée or simply PLM, established in 1857, was one of France’s main railway companies until the nationalization of all French railways and establishment of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) on 1 January 1938.
Development of the French rail network in the 19th century Trains to take on vacation from Paris, published in the Excelsior journal on June 21st, 1934. The very first French railroad line, and also the first in continental Europe, was the Saint-Étienne–Andrézieux railway, granted by order of King Louis XVIII to Louis-Antoine Beaunier in 1823 and opened on June 30, 1827.
"The Railway Policy of the Second Empire," in F. Crouzet et al., eds. Essays in European Economic History 1789–1914 (1969) pp 98–111 Cameron, Rondo E. France and the Economic Development of Europe, 1800–1914 (Princeton UP, 1961) online
This is a list of railway lines in France, belonging either to the national network (SNCF Réseau) or to private owners. High speed lines (LGV, managed by the SNCF)