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Re: Video showing Paris Metro Line 1 headway |
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Posted by Wado MP73 on Tue Feb 9 11:49:22 2010, in response to Re: Video showing Paris Metro Line 1 headway, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 8 23:58:41 2010. Well... I'm not going to read the whole 48 page thread but nice pics and vids for sure.Paris is sort of my home town. I went to school there from what you would call here K to sixth grade. During which time, I -rode the first section (Nation - Boissy) of RER A on opening weekend. (Too bad my father didn't take me on the last steam run on that line the previous week) -saw the introduction of MF67 on lines 3, 7 and 9. -saw the conversion to ATO on lines 4, 1, and 3. -rode the line to St. Germain both pre-RER third rail and post-RER conversion. -saw OPTO being introduced. -saw the conversion of line 6 to rubber-tyre and the introduction of MP73 stock (hence my handle). among many other changes that happened in the system at the time. Very interesting era indeed. I went back to Paris many times, especially when my father lived there again from 1989 to 1993. The original concept of RER was to have RATP take over lines that were converted, but after the RATP and SNCF officials went to Tokyo and saw the many through running services there, they decided it was okay to mix trains from both. |
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