The report aims to give a glance of diesel railway traction development in France and to clear actual tendencies of it. Earliest applications of diesel engines to railway motive power unite began in 1932 on railcars and some light powered locomotives. The authors draws attention in his comments to the evolution of these units before and after World War II. Whereas, in French North Africa and Commonwealth main line diesel traction goes on increasing, in metropolitan France diesel traction bends to railcars, switchers and transfer locomotives.
Le developpement de la traction diesel sur les reseaux ferres de la france et de l'union francaise
Entwicklung von dieselmotorischen Bahnantrieben in Frankreich
The development of diesel traction on the railways of France and of the French Union
1951
11 Seiten, 1 Bild, 1 Tabelle
Conference paper
Storage medium
French
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