Hanscotte centre-rail system (category Puy-de-Dôme)
deployment was on the Chemin de Fer du Puy-de-Dôme, a tourist light railway between Clermont Ferrand and the summit of the Puy-de-Dôme, in 1906. In 1898 Hanscotte...
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général du Puy-de-Dôme. The train has a capacity of 1,200 persons an hour. There was a railway with a non-rack central rail on the Puy de Dôme (using the...
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The Dôme de Rochefort (Italian: Dôme de Rochefort) (4,015 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in Haute-Savoie, France and of Aosta Valley, Italy...
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(Compagnie du chemin de fer de Clermont-Ferrand au sommet du Puy-de-Dôme), responsible for running trains to the summit of the nearby Puy de Dôme volcano, to form...
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The Temple of Mercury at Puy de Dôme is a Gallo-Roman trachyte temple built in the 2nd century at the summit of the lava dome. It replaced a 1st-century...
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architect. In particular, he built stations for the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), including the main stations:...
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Vallée des Usines (category Rivers of Puy-de-Dôme)
"Planète Puy de Dôme : tourisme et vacances dans le Puy-de-Dôme – Auvergne" [Planète Puy de Dôme : tourism and vacations in Puy-de-Dôme – Auvergne]. www...
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L'Aiguille de la Bérangère (3,425 m), and unnamed tops known only from their heights as Dôme 3670, Dôme 3666, Dôme 3633, Dôme 3673 and Dôme 3672. The ridge...
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Ambert (category Communes of Puy-de-Dôme)
(French pronunciation: [ɑ̃bɛʁ] ; Auvergnat: Embèrt) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. Ambert is the seat of the canton...
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Mont-Saint-Michel, in the Manche department Le Mont-Dore (France), Puy-de-Dôme Le Mont-Mesly, quarter of Créteil Switzerland Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, in...
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The Montenvers Railway or Chemin de fer du Montenvers is a rack railway line in the Haute-Savoie department of France. The line runs from a connection...
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The Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (French: Chemin de fer Montreux Oberland Bernois, German: Montreux Berner Oberland Bahn, abbreviated MOB) is a company...
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Col de la Croix de Fer, an Alpine pass in France Col de la Croix Fry, an Alpine pass in France Col de la Croix Haute, an Alpine pass in France Côte de la...
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for the Syndicat d'Exploitation des Chemins de fer de Ceinture de Paris. They passed to the Chemins de fer du Nord in 1934 who renumbered them Nord 3.701...
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(1997). "Un siècle de fer dans le Segréen : la Société des Mines de Fer de Segré (1911–1987)". Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest (in French)...
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Nord 2.451 to 2.631 (category Chemins de Fer du Nord locomotives)
Chemins de Fer du Nord. The machines were retired from service from 1909 to 1923. The locomotive design was first put into service at the Chemins de Fer du...
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Nord 4.061 to 4.340 (category Chemins de Fer du Nord locomotives)
to 4.340 were a class of 2-8-0 tender goods locomotives of the Chemins de fer du Nord. At nationalisation on 1 January 1938, they all passed to the SNCF...
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day, the Dômes de Miages is crossed and the night is spent at the Durier cabin. The third day proceeds over l'Aiguille de Bionnassay and the Dôme du Goûter...
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Nord 3.606 to 3.787 (category Chemins de Fer du Nord locomotives)
3.606 to 3.787 were 0-6-0 locomotives for mixed traffic of the Chemins de Fer du Nord. The machines were the continuation of the Nord 265 to 274 (3.265–3...
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(Mountain) compound steam locomotive, built as a prototype for the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée. The firm of Schneider et Cie took charge...
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Calendar.[citation needed] Charles Gilbert Romme was born in Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France, where he received an education in medicine...
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Goûter Route (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Goûter (3,863 m) Dôme du Goûter (4,304 m) Vallot Hut (emergency cabin, 4,362 m) Grande Bosse (4,513 m) Petite Bosse (4,547 m) Rocher de la Tournette (4...
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baron de Nervo (1804–97), and Adélaïde Marie Suzanne Brugière de Barante (1813–86). Robert de Nervo became an administrator of the Chemins de fer de Paris...
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État 40-001 to 40-143 (category Chemins de fer de l'État locomotives)
40-001 to 40-143 was a class of 0-8-0 Tank locomotives of the Chemins de Fer de l'État. They later served with the SNCF who renumbered them 3-040.TA.1...
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settlement of the Col de Ceyssat [fr] is a modest Roman town situated between 1,000 and 1,150 meters in altitude, at the base of the Puy de Dôme and its sanctuary...
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in Alsace Lorraine. However, the previous operator, the French Chemins de fer de l'Est had moved all its rolling stock west. The new owners had to procure...
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Aiguille du Midi (redirect from Aiguille de midi)
close to Mont Blanc. The idea for a cable car to the summit, the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi, was originally proposed around 1909, but did not come...
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Eiffel Tower (redirect from La dame de fer)
designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed "La dame de fer" (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed as the centerpiece of the...
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Chemin de fer Aigle-Ollon-Monthey-Champéry Chemin de fer Bex-Villars-Bretaye Chemin de fer Blonay – Les Pléiades Brienz Rothorn Bahn Chemin de Fer de Martigny...
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Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban (redirect from Sebastien de Vauban)
proposed line of fortresses known as the Ceinture de fer, or iron belt (see Map). He was made Maréchal de camp in 1676, and succeeded Clerville as Commissaire...
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