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There are two that I specially remember : Liege to Luxembourg in the old CFL wegmann carriages and Lille to Amiens in a old dirty SNCF caravelle.

Trolley wire like this, on 25kv, with constant tension equipment (weights), is used by SNCF for lines with speeds up to 120 km/h. Higher speeds need à real catenary.

Not in the "out of factory" version as far as I remember. That was changed afterwards. If you Google for "photos hle18", you will get some pictures that demonstrate this. Envoyé de mon GT-I9505 en utilisant Tapatalk

It is closer than cousins... Sisters maybe. The only differences were the brake command, the rheostat that was stronger, because of the Liege incline, and the blue color instead of red. Otherwise exactly the same... Envoyé de mon GT-I9505 en utilisant Tapatalk

I did Brussels-Beijing in 2011 and can confirm all of the above. When changing wheelsets, the carriage doors could be freely opened so taking pictures was easy enough. Will go again, Brussels-Paris-Moscow-Tashkent end of September...

Quite a shot, that ! These locs never went to the Netherlands in regular service... Built as quadri- system, they were used under 25 kV AC and 3 kV DC only. The Netherlands and Germany never accepted them, for political reasons... even if similar HLE 18 from Belgium were seen in Köln...

Here are a few of them that I travelled myself and that I can recommend. Belgium, my home country : basically all lines along and south of the Sambre and Meuse rivers. If a choice must be made, Liège to Luxembourg would be mine. France : both lines crossing the "massif central", i.e...