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Locomotive (Usually 6003 Saanen, in special Chocolate Train livery) / Belle Epoque Ars / Belle Epoque Ars / Golden Pass Panorama observation car (No. 116 or 117) operating in Push – Pull mode. Other trains Montreux–Zweisimmen may be pulled by a Ge 4/4, GDe 4/4 or an ABDe 8/8 and they can have up to five coaches.
Dawn of the Belle Époque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011). McAuliffe, Mary. Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) online.
Above that level was an even more unusual element; a strong horizontal band of windows. The tower with an enormous clock was another unusual feature, unlike any other train station or historical model in the city. [26] The interior features included a buffet later named the Train Bleu, in the most lavish Belle Époque style. [27]
Paris in the Belle Époque was a period in the history of the city during the years 1871 to 1914, from the beginning of the Third French Republic until the First World War. It saw the construction of the Eiffel Tower , the Paris Métro , the completion of the Paris Opera , and the beginning of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre .
In 1963, the belle-epoque restaurant at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris was renamed Le Train Bleu to honor the historic train. A French television series, Le train bleu s'arrete 13 fois (lit. "The Blue Train Stops 13 times"), appeared on the French channel ORTF between October 8, 1965, and March 11
Former Charonne-Voyageurs Petite Ceinture station in 1996 (the Flèche d'Or music café at the time) Paris's former Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture (French pronunciation: [ʃəmɛ̃ də fɛʁ də pətit sɛ̃tyʁ], 'small(er) belt railway'), also colloquially known as La Petite Ceinture, was a circular railway built as a means to supply the city's fortification walls, and as a means of ...
The GoldenPass Line is a tourist-orientated train route in the Swiss Alps with its base in Montreux. It is not a legal entity but operates and manages the following companies: Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (MOB) Transports Montreux-Vevey Riviera (MVR)
The western terminus of the train is Montreux, on the shore of Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud.Montreux is the terminus of the Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line's 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line and is shared with the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge Simplon line of Swiss Federal Railways.