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    Paris's former Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture ('small(er) belt railway'), also colloquially known as La Petite Ceinture, was a circular railway built...
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    qui déclare d'utilité publique les travaux à exécuter pour le prolongement, dans l'intérieur de Paris, du chemin de fer de Paris à Sceaux et à Limours jusqu'aux...
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    X-Mines). In 1858 he was appointed traffic manager to the Compagnie de chemins de fer du Midi, a post in which he showed a remarkable talent for organization...
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    nouveau réseau de la Compagnie du chemin de fer du Midi et du canal latéral à la Garonne, les chemins de fer de Graissessac à Béziers et de Carmaux à Albi :...
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    1874 the Compagnie des Hauts-Fourneaux, Forges et Aciéries de la Marine et des Chemins de fer was struggling in a difficult economy. Montgolfier was named...
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    chemin de fer de Grande Ceinture et de Petite Ceinture and the two national administrations, chemins de fer d'Alsace-Lorraine (AL) and chemins de fer...
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  • Thumbnail for French protectorate in Morocco
    franco-espagnole du chemin de fer de Tanger à Fez built a standard gauge railroad connecting Fes and Tangier, while Compagnie des chemins de fer du Maroc (CFM)...
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    station to Meyzieu-Z.I. station)11. It takes the former line of the Chemin de fer de l'Est de Lyon. It enters Montchat at the intersection of rue Feuillat and...
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    Some of the locomotives used on this line later saw service on the Chemins de fer du Calvados and the Diégo Suarez Decauville railway. Celebrities and...
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    Eiffel Tower (redirect from La dame de fer)
    designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed "La dame de fer" (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed as the centerpiece of the...
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