Is It Finished Yet? No, it isn’t! But it is nearly finished and has been nearly finished for months! There are, of course, hughly paid project managers whose job it is to ensure that projects such as this take longer and cost more than predicted. Often the results of these well-planned (?) projects are worse that what has been replaced.…
A Prize For fbb? Sadly, there is no award, complete with substantial cash bursary, for old blokes who can unravel timetables and maps, in a foreign language and somewhere he has never been. But we do know that former Paladin routes 4 and 12 in the greater Paris area have been merged. The excellent news is that there is an…
It Is All On Line – Thankfully Out Of Date In studying the former (and now replaced) Paladin 4 route from La Croix de Berny … … we re helped by some out of date R A T P Paris maps and a partially complete enthusiast web site. So fbb began his tour of the toute using said “site non-officiel”.…
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A Cartographic Experience We already know that route Tvm (trans Val de Marne) travels east whilst being a bus pretending (unsuccessfully) to be a tram. 396 is a variant of the 196 that just happens to pop into the RER station. We also know that 379 no longer exists , having been partially replaced by the new Tram T10. Which…
What Is It? Here’s a clue … Yes, it is a rather sickly sweet chocolate bar from Cadburys … … a melange of goo, crunch and chocolate – and only about a million calories. But this is an atrociously bad piece of journalism – almost as bad as Brighton and Hove’s “new livery” video! 0 out of 10 Madeline plus…
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Can You Pick ‘Em : Vehicles From Wickham From 1922, Wickham has produced a range of bespoke “utility” vehicles for railway use. Inspection trolleys … … and general engineering “staff transport”. Passenger vehicles were also commissioned, largely for “third world” operators. But, generally, if it ran on rails … … it could issue forth from the Ware factory. For most…
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Timetables … They do like simple line diagrams in R A T P land and in the case of Tram T10 the diagram flies in the face of geography! And, as for timetables, NO CHANCE! R A T P call them “Fiches Horaires” (timetable sheets) which they most certainly are not. The T10 has FIVE different timetables. The first two…