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Voies Ferrées Locales Et Industrielles
Captrain France, formerly VFLI, is a French freight rail company. It is a subsidiary of SNCF's Rail Logistics Europe. The company was formed in 1998 as a low cost short line and industrial railway operator. History VFLI was established in 1998 by SNCF to operate as a low cost operation, initially the company took over the operations of two industrial railway systems: Voies Ferrées des Landes (VFL) and Mines Dominiales de Potasse d'Alsace. In 2000 the company began a joint venture with Compagnie des chemins de fer départementaux (CFD) named''Voies Ferrées du Morvan'' to operate the 87 km Avallon-Autun railway line, and in 2001 took over operations on the ''Houllières du Bassin de Lorraine'' (HBL) via a subsidiary 'VFLI Cargo''. Up to 2007 the company was involved in the construction of LGV Est through the subsidiary ''Fertis''. In 2007, VFLI was certificatied to run trains on the full extent of the French national railway network owned by Réseau Ferré de France. By 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
