Recent content by Philfrance

Thankyou very much for your greetings. From a rather wintery and hectic France, I wish you all a very happy Christmas and all the best for the oncoming year ! Philippe

It's not so much European train operators who'll be interested because recent changes to market regulations in Europe are going to push them all through a couple of rough quarters in the next following years, although SNCF, Virgin or DB could take an interest in a joint venture with existing US...

Well, thanks a lot for the idea. In fact, my research is about the late GN & GE joint venture. Last service circa 1960's I believe.

Hello, could anybody help me about track layout of Spalding, Moulton, Whaplode, Holbeach (Lincs.) circa WWII? Thanks

The problem in France is the length of platforms... As RFF (Réseaux ferrés de France) proprietor of infrastructure hasn't decided to make any of them much longer than a 7 or 14 coach TGV, there's no reason why SNCF should ask for such a modification to their trains (this is also why SNCF ordered...

Alsthom has developed something better than the TGV called the AGV. They've already sold 25 multiple units to the italian new-born NTV company. The main difference between the AGV and the TGV is there's more passenger seating space, due to the fact that all coaches are motorised below the...

Hi guys ! I'm just popping in as a french railway modeller (living in france since the mid-80's). To answer part of the question, at the time of the 1974 attempt, the most recent electric engines SNCF was developing were : BB 7003 (built 1974) running on 1,5 kV DC power CC 21000 (built...