The Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest (CF de l'Ouest), often referred to simply as L'Ouest or Ouest, was an early French railway company which operated...
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arbitration between the French state and the first Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) company over its management...
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Paris's former Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture ('small(er) belt railway'), also colloquially known as La Petite Ceinture, was a circular railway built...
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in Paris, known as the embarcadère de l'Ouest ("Western platform"), the temporary terminus of the Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain, opened...
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The Compagnie du chemin de fer Grand-Central de France (Grand-Central Railway Company of France), commonly known as the Compagnie du Grand-Central, or...
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originally operated most of the network: the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris S.A. ("Paris Metropolitan Railway Company Ltd."), shortened...
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Pereire brothers (category Compagnie Générale Transatlantique)
a leading business conglomerate. Enterprises created or sponsored by the Pereires included: the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain [fr]...
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was the last line of the original concession of the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris and the first to cross the Seine underground (Line...
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opened as the Pont Saint-Michel station on the extension of the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans from the Gare d'Austerlitz to a new terminus at...
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transport, and opened nine new Paris-suburb tram lines. In 1850 the government decided to create the Chemin de fer de Ceinture, a railroad line around the city...
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Saintes as the seat of the Compagnie des chemins de fer des Charentes in 1867, then as the regional seat of the VIIIth arrondissement of the Chemins de...
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Atmospheric railway (section Paris – Saint Germain)
concession from the Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain. They opened their 19 km line in 1837, but only as far as Le Pecq, a river quay on the...
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the city, in competition with Line 4 of the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP; Paris Metropolitan Railway Company). It was extended...
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Inauguration of the train line, operated by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Strasbourg, opens between Paris and Strasbourg in eastern France. 12 August...
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Réseau Express Régional (redirect from Paris RER)
Ruhlmann-Langewin plan of the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (Metropolitan Railway Company of Paris) for a "métropolitain express" (express...
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Pereire station (redirect from Pereire - Maréchal Juin (Paris Metro))
was the first director of the Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain, which opened the first railway in Paris in 1837. He was later in charge...
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1853. He extended the line, known as the Chemin de fer américain ("American rail line"), all the way across Paris from Boulogne to Vincennes in 1856. But...
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originated in 1859 as the Belgian firm Compagnie Belge pour la Construction de Machines et de Matériels de Chemins de Fer, founded by Charles Evrard. The company...
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the Nord-Sud Company was taken over by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris and Line A became Line 12 of the Métro and Line B became...
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newly formed railroad, Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain, the predecessor to Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest, where he remained...
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Exposition Universelle (1900) (redirect from Paris 1900 Exposition)
dismantled and moved a few dozen meters from its original placement. The Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) installed a total of 141 of...
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Montmartre Funicular (redirect from Funiculaire de Montmartre)
control, and this was nationalized together with the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) to form the Régie autonome des transports parisiens...
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result from such a small section serving only neighborhoods of little activity caused the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) to delay...
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Aubervilliers (category Communes of Seine-Saint-Denis)
pronunciation: [obɛʁvi'lje] ) is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. Aubervilliers is...
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A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. On 27 March 1931, line A became line 12 when It was taken over by the Compagnie du chemin de...
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longest-lived until they were purchased in 1897 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans to build the Gare d'Orsay for the Exposition Universelle...
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concession for the Strasbourg–Basel railway was granted to the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Strasbourg à Bâle, founded by the Koechlin brothers, in 1838. The railway...
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delay caused by a conflict in 1870 with the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) with which the DSE was becoming a serious competitor...
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Sèvres–Babylone station (redirect from Sévres Babylone (Paris Metro))
30 December 1923, line 10's station opened by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) as part of the first section of the Ligne circulaire...
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were a series of three experimental steam-electric locomotives produced in the 1890s for the French Chemins de fer de l'Ouest (CF de l'Ouest). A prototype...
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