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This month
Bieke Depoorter, Belgium
‘For three periods of one month, I have let the Trans-Siberian train guide me alongside forgotten villages, from living room to living room. Some Russian words scribbled on a little piece of paper allowed me to be welcomed and absorbed in the warm chaos of a family. Accidental encounters led me to the places where I could sleep. The living room, the epicentre of their life, establishes an intimate contact between the Russian inhabitants. In this room, they sleep, eat and drink, as well as cry. For a brief moment, I was part of this. Their couch became my bed for one night. This way, I experienced transient, but very powerful, shared moments. We communicated without words. We understood each other somehow’.
October 2009
Setra - "Le transport ferroviaire de voyageurs en France"
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September 2009
July 2009
VIA Rail | La façon humaine de voyager
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan's 'smile scan' train service
Commuters in Tokyo are being greeted with the friendliest of welcomes.
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Sécurité passages à niveau
DGITM - fiche OFP
June 2009
May 2009
Why trains run slower now than they did in the 1920s. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
aaaah ce pays de progrès.The aforementioned Montreal Limited, for example, circa 1942, would pull out of New York's Grand Central Station at 11:15 p.m., arriving at Montreal's (now defunct) Windsor Station at 8:25 a.m., a little more than nine hours later. To make that journey today, from New York's Penn Station on the Adirondack, requires a nearly 12-hour ride.
April 2009
Gallery - Where's the remotest place on Earth? - Image 5 - New Scientist
Unlike roads, which can evolve out of any old dirt track, railways require skilled labour and considerable investment. As a result, they are confined mainly to the richer nations of Europe, the US, Australia and Japan.
Railway networks in India, Argentina and parts of Africa give clues to their colonial heritage.
March 2009
Utopies ferroviaires
Gare ensemble
February 2009
January 2009
La Chapelle Ville Nature
