Railways - The Great Steam locomotive of France
The first public railway in France was officially opened on 1 October 1828, a year after being placed in service and three years after the opening of the pioneering railway Stockton Darlington UK The French line ran from St. -Г Etienne AndrГ zieux, a distance of about 18 km has been built to the standard gauge 1435 which had then settle in the UK.
The first railway in the French capital ran instead of Europe l†near the existing station Saint-Lazare in Le Pecq, a few kilometers short of its final destination in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
In most countries, the “rule road” for trains is the same as for road traffic, for example, in England, where cars drive on the left of the road, trains run on the left hand of a pair of railways, while in Germany, where cars drive on the right, the trains use the right lane of the pair France is an exception cars drive on the right, but the trains left end, first railways were built mainly using British expertise and standard equipment of “out box” no major operational problems are caused by the gap, but it did lead to a quirk between the end of the Franco-Prussian war 1871 and the end of the First World war, the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine were part of the German Empire, and during that time their lines were converted during Executi When we right the provinces were returned to France in 1919, the race of the right hand was left in place to deal with this change of left hand to the right hand running to PLAs offices where there was no need to stop for a border crossing, a number of overflights or jumps literally sheep “sheep jumps” were installed whose sole purpose was to take a racing line on top of another in the opposite direction.
The Paris MГ tro also works on the right; this seems to be because the first lines opened in the early 20th century were closely based on the electric tram technology and operation of trams in Paris, of course, had to run right when using in streets.
Although the first railways were mostly developed by private companies, there was a close state regulation which meant that there was little unnecessary duplication of lines that arose in other countries, including the UK the 1870s, most of the lines were merged into only five companies is, North, PLM, PO and West organized around groups of lines radiate from the capital A sixth group was owned and operated by Western State company eventually had serious financial difficulties, was taken over by the state in 1909. This situation continued until 1938, when all other companies merged with the State system to form the SNCF.
France has created a large network of high speed lines LGV, high-speed lines Г The French government wants to encourage the expansion and in 2012 signed the first contracts for new LCVs will be constructed and maintained by public-private consortia.
Besides the main railway line, there were also many minor roads and tram railway, built to standard gauge or meter Some of these lines that operations survive tourism.
Like England and unlike many other European countries, most French cities have lost their tramways in the latter part of the 20th century, the only exception being a single line in Marseille However, many cities now have new tram and even the subway systems and others are planned or currently being built.
SNCF ProximitГ local intercity passenger services, and regional classics.
SNCF Voyages high-speed passenger services, including joint ventures with other national railway organizations.
SNCF Geodis freight services, the SNCF. Freight
Stations and management and development of the resort. Connections
TGV booking site for the TGV high-speed services.
Ouigo low cost, book early TGV site services in French.
Thello independent operator of overnight passenger services between France and Italy Website in French.
Construction company Eiffage Rail Express and operation of the LGV Bretagne - Pays de la Loire between Le Mans and Rennes site in French.
Lisea company building and operating the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique between Tours and Bordeaux.
Oc†by the company's construction and operation of the extension of the LGV Mà diterranà e between Manduel and Montpellier French site.
Trans Europe TGV association for the promotion of the site Rhine-VUL RhГґne French and German.
Vlexx German regional passenger offering a seasonal border service Wissembourg website in German.
Burgundy scroll independent freight operator service.
Colas Rail freight operator independent, mainly for construction and infrastructure maintenance.
ETF independent cargo operator, mainly in infrastructure construction and maintenance.
Ferovergne operator of local freight between Vichy and Puy-Guillaume No website located at present.
RDT13 local freight operator on several lines in the department of Bouches du dГ RhГґne French site.
HE Iron Valley l†Indre Argy Buzanà French local freight operator on the meter gauge line between French and Buzanà Argy No site located at present.
TPCF operator of local coping freight between Rivesaltes and Cases-de-PГЁne, using the site of the tourist line TPCF French.
The responsibility of the railway infrastructure in major ports was transferred to RFF national authority infrastructure to individual ports The majority of them have outsourced infrastructure management and maintenance to Socorail.
Socorail Dunkirk, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, Le Havre, Rouen, Paris, La Rochelle, Bordeaux and Strasbourg terminals Bassens and Verdon.
Marseille Fos port management and maintenance of infrastructure provided by a consortium of Sferis ETF and RDT13.
Only not in France, but particularly popular there, are otherwise unused lines on which it is possible to rent a working truck powered by hand or pedal and make your own way The places where they can be found are listed on tourist pages and paths iron miners.
The carts were even committed by RFF for the inspection of main lines, as seen here in a still from a video showing a train used on the e MГ diterranГ little LGV before its opening.
CDG VAL automated metro line at Charles de Gaulle airport complex linking the four terminals with car parking areas and with site RER and TGV stations contains little information about the railways.
Orlyval automatic metro line connecting Orly airport with the regional rail network in Paris the French site.
Basel tram network of the Swiss city has a border line serving the Leymen small community in the south of Alsace Another border line is proposed to serve St. Louis.
Caen TVR existing a guided bus system like a rubber tyred tram to be replaced by conventional trams at the end of 2019 and extended site matches the TVR system Tram, contains no details of the replacement project.
The Scenic Langres funicular connects the parking areas in the old town site in French.
Pau funicular connecting the train station to the city center No site located at present.
Proposed tram extension in Kehl, Germany site in German.
Toulouse metro, railway and tram proposed site in French.
For trams and light rail in the overseas departments and territories, see page concerned and minor tourist railways.
Railways in France, Railways, France, the operator of the local freight operations of the company's building.