{"id":8459,"date":"2024-10-15T01:29:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T01:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/some-corners-at-paris-mini-blog\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T01:29:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T01:29:18","slug":"some-corners-at-paris-mini-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/some-corners-at-paris-mini-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Corners at Paris (mini-blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"
An old engraving shows how it was …<\/p>\n
… but better is an old map.<\/p>\n
And it really was that tight a curve. So how did the steam hauled trains get round the corner?\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n
… which are a bit easier to see on the line drawing.<\/p>\n
Effectively, these locked the wheels to the rail! and probably squealed like a strangled ocelot when rounding the sharp turns.<\/p><\/div>\n
… using a series of linked two wheel “pony trucks”.<\/p><\/div>\n
… with wiggles necessary to get the trains up the hill to the station.<\/p>\n
Little remains of the original southern terminus of this sharp-cornered line, but an aerial view does show some very odd bits of curved road which follow the line of the original wiggle.<\/p>\n
The church is still there near the former terminus, but, in reality, nothing obvious remains of the old building.<\/p>\n
The sharp corners were no longer used. But they still appear faintly on the detailed Carto map of Paris Metro and RER as here at Denfert Rochereau …<\/p>\n