This page was translated by SYSTRAN (comments, feedback ...)
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)
And do not forget: " too much truck the truck kills "....(27-04-99)