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- Camera:
- Canon EOS 600D
- Description:
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Cite du Train: Est double-decker carriage (1900), Withdrawn from service from 1946. Around 1900, rail companies built "imperial"-style carriages for the Paris area to cater for rising transport demand. The French State chose open-topped imperial carriages, while the Compagnie de l'Est chose closed imperial carriages. The company ordered 1000 passenger carriages, built from 1883 to 1925, which had a long service life on the East Paris local lines, the Petite Ceinture line around Paris or the small Alsace lines. After 1938, the SNCF continued to use them on the line connecting Bastille to Boissy Saint Leger until 1946. These carriages were in service for over 60 years, but were never hugely popular with passengers because of safety issues with accessing the imperial carriage and an uncomfortable height restriction of approximately 1.6 metres. They were nicknamed Bidels, the name of a well known circus at the time, because the passengers on the top deck were squashed in like lions in a cage. There were even bars on the windows! This nickname was so popular that it was given to all the closed imperial carriages. Carriage no. 20076 was built in 1900 at the Romilly workshop. It was withdrawn from service in 1946 and restored to its original state.
- Date & Time:
- 2012:07:14 12:22:05
- Exposure:
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shutter speed: 1/30; f number: 3.5; focal length: 18.0mm; ISO: 800
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