"m_a_r_c" <jac### [at] wanadoo fr> schreef in bericht
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> When I was 12y old (in the 70's), I took one of the last french steam
> trains every second weekend to come back home from school and way back
> (wasn't Hogwarts BTW :-( )
> The locomotive was a Pacific 231 (French notation) or 4-6-2.
> Few years after they were replaced by diesel/electric locomotives.
>
My school in the Paris banlieue was alongside a railway station of one of
the local lines. Steam traction was used there I think until about 1963/64.
Every half hour, class had to be interrupted because of the noise of the
steam loc starting from the station... and close the windows of course :-)
I think that most steam engines were Pacifics in those days.
Thomas
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