St Nom la Bretèche Les Yvelines France 11th October 1987

North British-built in 1916 for la Compagnie de l'Est, 2-8-0 140C231 is seen on railtour duty heading south on the Grande Ceinture through the forest of Marly-le-Roi at St Nom la Bretèche on the southwestern outskirts of Paris. This locomotive was withdrawn from SNCF service and purchased by AJECTA in 1972.

AJECTA = l'Association de Jeunes pour l'Entretien et la Conservation des Trains d'Autrefois. Based in the roundhouse at Longueville east of Paris :- www.ajecta.org/page_accueil2.htm (in french), AJECTA still regularly runs steam railtours with this loco.

This section of the Grande Ceinture (The GC!!) line was mothballed & saw virtually no rail traffic in the 1980s when we lived in St Nom. It had been closed to passengers for 52 years when this shot was taken. On 12 December 2004 a 10km stretch of the GC, between Saint-Germain-en-Laye (gare de Grande-Ceinture) & Noisy-le-Roi, was electrified and reopened to the public

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Taken on: April 25, 2024

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