World rail speed record for the two new SNCF locomotives.
The episode shows how cinema is used in SNCF's technical research. The tests are filmed and studied by the technicians, who can thus make the necessary modifications during the construction, for an op...
This episode shows SNCF's packaging laboratory ; presentation of a new drill ; congress in Annecy focusing on prototype locomotives.
The latest electric locomotives, the 2D2 5500 combines comfort, speed and safety. The film follows the production, the routing and the transformation of the electric energy necessary for modern electr...
This episode presents the rail transport of automobiles ; the comfort of new armchairs ; the possibility of renting places in advance ; the shooting of technical tests ; the reconstruction of housing ...
The film presents the different stages of the electrification of the Valenciennes-Thionville line.
The reconstruction of a viaduc between France and Germany, in Alsace.
A line crossing the Landes is chosen to achieve in March 1955 the new speed record on rail with two French locomotives.