Ian Fuller2006
Double diesels!
More 67400s. Not blue this time, but painted in the rather fetching 'Corail Plus'/Multiservices livery introduced in the late '90s.
In 1987, I went to Saintes and found a busy little place, with a thriving freight yard and a shunter busily moving wagons about the place. The old steam shed was in use as a diesel stabling point, with 65000s and X2200 railcars awaiting their next turn of duty. Today, the yard is empty of all but a handful of condemned wagons, but the stabling point is still busy, now with its own allocation of multiple units and rejoicing in the title of 'Technicentre Charentes-Perigord'.
And the long distance services (from Bordeaux to Nantes and beyond) are still loco hauled. Once they were in the hands of SNCF's massive CC72000 diesels, but they are now gone leaving the heaviest trains in the hands of pairs of 67400s. Some, I believe, bear the ridiculous 'En Voyage' livery, but when I called into Saintes I was lucky enough to catch this pair, looking smart and awaiting the right away to head north. Happy days.
Double diesels!
More 67400s. Not blue this time, but painted in the rather fetching 'Corail Plus'/Multiservices livery introduced in the late '90s.
In 1987, I went to Saintes and found a busy little place, with a thriving freight yard and a shunter busily moving wagons about the place. The old steam shed was in use as a diesel stabling point, with 65000s and X2200 railcars awaiting their next turn of duty. Today, the yard is empty of all but a handful of condemned wagons, but the stabling point is still busy, now with its own allocation of multiple units and rejoicing in the title of 'Technicentre Charentes-Perigord'.
And the long distance services (from Bordeaux to Nantes and beyond) are still loco hauled. Once they were in the hands of SNCF's massive CC72000 diesels, but they are now gone leaving the heaviest trains in the hands of pairs of 67400s. Some, I believe, bear the ridiculous 'En Voyage' livery, but when I called into Saintes I was lucky enough to catch this pair, looking smart and awaiting the right away to head north. Happy days.