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The Eastern Railway Company and the French State in the Nineteenth Century." Journal of Modern History 69.1 (1997): 18–41. online; Mitchell, Allan. “Weak Sisters: The Employment of Women by French and German Railroads in the Nineteenth Century,” Francia 22#3 (1995): 175–82. Monkswell, Lord. French railways (1911) online; O'Brien, Patrick.
The French railway network, as administered by SNCF Réseau, as of June 2007, is a network of commercially usable lines of 29,213 kilometres (18,152 mi), of which 15,141 km (9,408 mi) is electrified. 1,876 km (1,166 mi) of those are high speed lines (LGV), 16,445 km (10,218 mi) dispose of two or more tracks. 5,905 km (3,669 mi) are supplied ...
' 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.
The first French high-speed railway, the LGV Sud-Est, linking the suburbs of Paris and Lyon, opened in 1981 and was at that time the only high-speed rail line in Europe. In addition to serving destinations across France, the high-speed rail system is also connected to the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany ...
The French Gratitude Train (French: Train de la Reconnaissance française), commonly referred to as the Merci Train, were 49 World War I era "forty and eight" boxcars gifted to the United States by France in response to the 1947 U.S. Friendship Train.
Amiens–Laon railway: 1857–1867 Creil–Beauvais railway: 1857 Hautmont–Mons railway: 1858 Chemin de Fer de la Somme: 1858 Busigny–Somain railway: 1858 Paris–Hirson railway: 1860–1871 Lens–Ostricourt railway: 1860 Chantilly–Crépy-en-Valois railway: 1862–1870 Lille–Tournai railway: 1865 Boulogne–Calais railway: 1867 Rouen ...
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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.