Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: 140C

A Blast from the Past. A snowy everyday scene in eastern France in 1969. An unidentified SNCF 140C 2-8-0 reversing north away from Verdun railway station is observed from the Avenue de Mort-Homme overbridge. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend. Best appreciated in large format.

Taken from the Rue Voltaire overbridge the support crew are pulling coal forward while 140C231 and its support coach are at the platform with the splendid roof of Troyes station behind. This former Chemin de fer de l'État, and subsequently SNCF engine was built by North British in 1916. The engine is preserved by AJECTA who organised the steam special to Troyes. Starting at the Gare de l'Est in Paris it ran via Melun, Montereau and Flamboin-Gouaix.