Some SNCF archive images...

[Gordonwis]

I have spent quite a lot of the last 2 years 'managing' the archiving etc of images following the death of my father and uncles all since 2019, and mixed up in that is sorting my own stuff .

 

In the process I have scanned quite a bit of rather nice old stuff.

 

Here's a starter for 10.

 

Limoges - Angouleme evening peak Autorail departing from Aixe sur Vienne. July 1980 (my photo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Narbonne - Perpignan local, Narbonne, September 1987 (my photo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Redon, August 1980

 

Edited May 16, 2023 by Gordonwis

[JeffP]

Excellent!

I like to see pics from that era. I came to start in France early 90's when a lot of the older stuff was still around.

[jivebunny]

Ah, proper trains. Nice photos, looking forward to seeing more of these. I also started to visit France in the late 80s and early 90s so this is right up my boulevard.

 

Alan

[Gordonwis]

By the way at Aixe sur Vienne the Chef de Gare is marching towards me to tell me off for photographing the train !!!

[Gordonwis]

 

72068 awaiting departure to Laon at Paris Nord - 1991 (my photo)

 

 

 

 

2 x 141R storming up the steep Vulbens bank from Fort l'Ecluse towards Annemasse. 2 January 1970. Photo by my late Uncle Jeremy Wiseman (I was in the vicinity aged 10 with a useless small plastic camera...)

 

 

 

 

 

 

CC7137 stabled at Bellegarde (Ain), 1988 (my photo) 

 

Edited May 17, 2023 by Gordonwis

[Gordonwis]

 

Somain - August 1995 (my photo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A screen grab off a video sequence. Thionville 11 12 1994

 

 

 

Edited May 17, 2023 by Gordonwis

[Gordonwis]

Lille 'Mongy' tram on the old alignment. November 1981 (my photo)

Edited May 17, 2023 by Gordonwis

[brushman47544]

On 17/05/2023 at 23:50, Gordonwis said:

 

72068 awaiting departure to Laon at Paris Nord - 1991 (my photo)

 

 

 

Which orange Eurofima coaches would that rake have been? I don't think SNCF had any orange ones and anyway they look more like UIC-Z than Y - and are definitely not X. So much more interesting long distance services in those days rather than the 'bore you to death' TGV type trains now in use.

[Gordonwis]

7 hours ago, brushman47544 said:

 

Which orange Eurofima coaches would that rake have been? I don't think SNCF had any orange ones and anyway they look more like UIC-Z than Y - and are definitely not X. So much more interesting long distance services in those days rather than the 'bore you to death' TGV type trains now in use.

 

SNCF's batch of Eurofima coaches were orange initially - as were all the others (Belgian, Italian, Swiss) but SNCF repainted them into Corail colours.  It's presumably a through train to Germany or Belgium

[Mike Harvey]

On 09/06/2023 at 23:13, Gordonwis said:

 

SNCF's batch of Eurofima coaches were orange initially - as were all the others (Belgian, Italian, Swiss) but SNCF repainted them into Corail colours.  It's presumably a through train to Germany or Belgium

 

It is almost certainly a Paris-Bruxelles (Amsterdam) working, These incorporated SNCB Eurofimas in orange C1 livery, and a selection of SNCF Eurofima  and Corail Vu and Vtu coaches also in C1 Livery.  I have a photo somewhere taken in Amsterdam when I saw the Vu/Vtu stock in orange for the first time, and in a wholly orange set. The SNCF Eurofima A9 fleet contained the first 8 coaches out of 100 in orange livery (900-907), and the following  Corail Vu/Vtu coaches also in C1:- 10 A4B6u Vu75 composite compartments (063-072); 11 B6Dd2 Vu75 Second class compartment baggage (not air-conditioned) (269-279), 35 B10tu Vtu75 second class open (291-325).  Usually the trains were hauled by SNCF CC40100. The SNCB Class 18 was generally diagrammed for the Paris-Köln and Oostende-Köln services. The Köln services from Paris generally did not contain orange coaches and in the late 1980s one of the Parsifal sets was wholly SNCF stock in Corail grey livery. Details sourced from the Le Train Corail archive Tome 2.

 

Edited July 8, 2023 by Mike Harvey
Added detail

[Gordonwis]

Just in case you thought that a triple header on your SNCF model layout at an exhibition should be reserved for the 'silly season' 1 hour before the  show closes, here is a photo I took in 1992 showing that anything is possible...

 

 

Eastbound chemical tankers hauled by two 67400s plus one 67300, near Vierzon 

 

 

 

 

 

And a 72000 connecting with an X2400 at Guimgamp, September 1987

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2023 by Gordonwis

[Gordonwis]

A CC72000 hauling a Geneve - Valence train formed of a superb collection of pre-corail coaches in all over green; at Satigny (GE, CH) on 2 January 1982.

 

Front to rear, there are two A4Dd Rémétallisée  Sud-Est, two Bruhat, one B4Dd Rémétallisée Sud Est and one (looks like) B9 DEV 

 

 

 

Edited September 2, 2023 by Gordonwis