Alan Sewell visits Ugine Kulman…
S.A UGINE KULMAN
Division Metaux Non Ferraux
Plombiere, Savoie, France
Gauge: Standard
Date of Visit: August 95
This works situated on the wooded side of an alpine valley separated from SNCF line by main road.
The sidings leave the SNCF at Plombiere station where there is a set of storage sidings and a loading shed. This contained an SNCF Y-series locotracteur possibly on hire or recently purchased. From these siding the tracks ran past a small loco shed containing a green diesel and curved sharply towards the works crossing the road and climbing into the loading area. Here several sidings served two loading sheds.
One shed contained a rake of tank wagons to which was coupled a small "track mobile" type loco. In the yard was parked another working locomotive, a green numberless 4wD Batignolles-Chatillon of 1948.
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| 4wD Batignolles-Chatillon of 1948, August 1995. Alan Sewell photo. |
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| SNCF ‘Y-series’ locotracteur, possibly on hire. August 1995, Alan Sewell photo. |
Hi James
ReplyDeleteGlad you found this of interest. If you or others want some more I will see if there is anything I might think your readers may find interesting. I did visit Austria and Germany back in the very early 70's and even made it to the watch towers of the Czech border . Most of my "holiday" visits then were to steel mills and mines still using steam so maybe not much inspiration to you. I will however look out some more short notes from France and other places. Gives me an opportunity to revisit my files
Best regards
Alan
Alan - that all sounds of interested and I’m sure I’m not the only person to think so! Thank you!
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