Historical documents - Autorail

Jan-1982

The term "light railcar" must be associated with a questioning of a number of 150-year-old constraints if it is to have any meaning. This implies that, for this purpose, it is envisaged to consider

Jan-1985

Marked in its lively works by the events of the Second World War, the Corsican network came out of it martyrized and cut off one of its lines. Very often threatened with total closure, it had to be cl

Jan-1985

In spite of an eventful life and a serious amputation, the Corsican network, still alive, and entering a new youth, by the use of modern equipment and by a new exploitation of the network, is still in

Sep-1982

The light rail colloquium, held in Nice on 29 and 30 March 1982 as part of EXPORAIL, was intended to make French railway manufacturers aware of this equipment niche

Oct-1981

The general composition of the rolling stock only concerns the equipment ordered by the C.F.D. for their conceded networks. The equipment ordered for the operation of the networks for which Compagni

Oct-1977

Designed to operate the S.N.C.F. lines leased to the Company, the first C.F.D. railcars were built by the BILLARD Establishments in Tours.

Oct-1977

For twenty years, the C.F.D. did not build any more railcars, but devoted themselves to the locomotives. It wasn't until 1971 that the Montmirail workshops started building again

Oct-1971

The following note by Mr. METZ allows us to situate what the BILLARD ESTABLISHMENTS were

Oct-1971

Below is a particularly detailed and precise study by Mr LE SAULNIER. It is in fact the resumption of a study of the Billiard railcars which had been started by Mr Bernard Ro