Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,046 pages of information and 246,693 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Chemins de fer de l'Etat

From Graces Guide

1878 The company was established by state order to take over ten small failing railway companies operating in the area between the rivers Loire and Garonne.

Further lines were subsequently acquired.

1908 Absorbed the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest

1934 took over the Paris-Orléans company's lines in southern Brittany.

At its greatest extent its operating area comprised all the territory west of a line extending from Dieppe by way of Paris to Bordeaux.

1938 Merged with all the other French railway companies to form the SNCF.

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