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An article drawn from a newspaper on "the Page of the narrow gauge railways and the Mines" on a minor who succeeded in the exploit to start again and to make profitable a coal mine in England. A beautiful lesson of success for our Engineers of French Coal Board who showed themselves completely inefficient until now. French Coal Board at summer created to exterminate the minors, not to extract coal under ground. In this connection, I made a turn last Friday in Mure, on the levels of the gallery of the Balsam, it does not have there more nothing, but heaps of refuse (to be announced to associations of ecologists...). In Susville, the head-frame is always there, any kind of railway rolling stock is parked on the ground, it must y have more than one about fifty stored parts, on standby of I do not know what (a museum I hope). Large trucks made their appearance towards the offices, and by two, it block the gates of access. An end of 2 meters was posed all around the site... Whereas during the exploitation, I had been likely to go to visit the cage and the well of the head-frame. Some photographs will be put soon on line. 26-04-00


Three blows of mouth for one week

Because of an absence prolonged, I do not have any more time to seek and scanner of the articles concerning transport. But the last Life of the Rail as well as the reading of a leaflet push me to react on 3 subjects which I find significant.

Initially a small advertizing in LVDR for a Hungarian site which explains how " niquer " public transport, cheer LVDR! Then the combat of a courageous man, the head of project of the Lyons tram, against the " Lyons bawler " and I would finish by a small development on future station TGV between Lyon and Turin. (26-02-00)


And if one obliged the railwaymen sedentary to travel by the train!

Once in winter, and once in summer, one would impose on each sedentary agent a course in the one working day place, history to undergo what the customers undergo, and to become aware that the job of chacun(e) is useful. For un(e) parisien(ne) Paris-Lyon and return by Clermont-Ferrand for example... When it is noted that the frameworks prefer to rent a monospace with driver because the schedules for such way do not arrange them! And the " horairists ", they travel by the train of the times? etc... That would cost some working days, certainly, but that could only improve the things, at least, I think it. (26-01-00)


Will the SNCF have to you it it will to centre itself on its true trade, the rail-bound transport?

The SNCF will never seek to be impertinent in railway freight, as long as it will continue to make benefit on the road. Fortunately how for the travellers, in fact the areas are occupied some, if not, the SNCF would quickly have made put the small lines on the road thanks to Carianne or Via GTI!!! With when the regionalization of freight?

The SNCF: with us to make you prefer privatization? Finally, it is to me really anything...(11-12-99)


Does Lorsque one wish to put fine at his days, which is the means more on, to take a train in India or England This country was one of the precursors in all the inventions concerning the rail-bound transport, it is found today on same the levels as a country " émergeant"... Ah, they liked it their Tatcher! They will pay it still a long time.(09-10-99)
EN making demolish a hut built illegally in Corsica, a prefect goes in prison. Another prefect was informed by reports/ratios which a tunnel became too dangerous, which it was necessary to act quickly and severly, before a catastrophe does not occur. He, on the other hand, did not act. There just were forty deaths. He continued for manslaughter will be you at the end of the investigation in progress, we go the knowledge before the summer. When to the president of company-moneybox-corrupting of the tunnel, it should already be with the shade...(01-06-99)
U
time moreover, the race with the dough - exploitation of the men and the machines until the end of the roller - is principal the person in charge of the catastrophe of the tunnel of the Mount Blanc. There no had been deaths in Andorra enough. The trucks do not kill enough to take strict measures in the direction of the security. In one of last the Life Of the Rail, the FNTR criticizes unexpected road controls; **time-out** of course sûr, it can not them approve, considering that the majority of haulage company de transports, have so much draw the price to the bottom that they be wedge, economy on the maintenance, on the man, use massive of fuel oil red (take the tax off), I of pass and of less funny... The government of left have fear of a blockade of " malicious lorry driver ", then it lower its trousers and have not the C.....s to put some command in all that. Europe prefers EM... er the oyster culturists and other craftsmen rather than to concentrate themselves on the problem and to give all that in command. If the road standards (of the texts of law) were really respected, the prices would not be also low, the railroad would be more competitive, and the distribution between the means of transport would be more equitable. It would be necessary to agree to pay a few francs more the products of great consumption. But not, one continues to sink right in the wall.

And do not forget: " too much truck the truck kills "....(27-04-99)