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The railway from Paris to Bordeaux is an important French 584-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the southwestern port city Bordeaux via Orléans and Tours. The railway was opened in several stages between 1840 and 1853, when the section from Poitiers to Angoulême was finished. [ 2 ]
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 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
The network was part of the French private railway called the Chemins de fer de l'Est (EST) until 1871. With the Treaty of Frankfurt in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War, their shareholders were compensated with 325 million francs by the French state and the railway was relinquished from France to the German Empire.
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.
Because the CF de l'Est were also the leaseholders of the Wilhelm Luxemburg Railway with a route length of 169 km (105 mi), the Imperial Railways took over the running of the network. An 18 km (11 mi) long railway line from Colmar to Münster (French Munster), which belonged to the town of Münster, was also purchased.
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