The Train Bleu

by Franchi Torres

Title

The Train Bleu

Artist

Franchi Torres

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Photograph - Digital Art And Photo Manipulation

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Vintage Photo colorized by Franchi Torres FT imagens.
The train bleu ("blue train") service resumed on 16 November 1920 between Paris and Menton with pre-war carriages, operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits using the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée., or PLM. The whole route was served again on 9 December 1922. The new Calais-Méditerrannée Express was composed of exclusively first-class, new steel carriages (S-cars) built by Leeds Forge Company in England and the CIWL-works in Munich and a dining car renowned for its haute cuisine five-course dinners. The "introduction ride" was made by two trains with many invitees and nearly 50 journalists, departing from Calais and Paris bound for Nice. The sleeping cars were painted blue with gold trim. This eventually led to the nickname Blue Train in 1923. This name was taken over soon in English advertisements: "Summer on the French Riviera by the Blue Train"

In 1934 the PLM rebuilt one of their 4-cylinder compound "Atlantics" with a streamlined casing for working the Train Bleu between Paris and Lyons. Although the locomotive was capable of nearly 100 mph, French law limited the speeds of trains in public service to 75 mph, so the locomotive was only able to average 61 mph over the Paris to Lyons route. The all first class Train Bleu was put on in 1922 and ran from Paris to Lyons and Marseilles and then via all stations to Menton on the French Riviera. It was the setting on Agatha Christie's The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)

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