BOOK, by Jean Le Dantec & J.Claude Chaussedent, club car - Lot 631

BOOK, by Jean Le Dantec & J.Claude Chaussedent, club cartophile marseillais 2006. "ENTRE AUBAGNE et la BARQUE-FUVEAU, LA VOIE FERREE DU LIGNITE". 142 pages - 25 x 20 cm. - History of the Huveaune mid-valley line, which for almost a century carried passengers and goods over a distance of just over 30 kilometers between Aubagne and the Arc valley. Road transport condemned the line due to lack of profitability on April 18, 1939. Following the closure of the Provence mining basin, freight traffic was abandoned around 1960. A very precise work, full of figures and details on activity, stations, economic and technical information, and lignite ore traffic. Well-illustrated with numerous documents, often unpublished, postcards & photographs, plans, official texts, timetables, testimonials, correspondence, headed invoices, business cards, miscellaneous facts...