RAILWAY CENTENARY
Versailles these days is celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the railway uniting it to the capital. This was the second railway line to be opened to the public, the first being between Paris and St Germain.
The first train from Paris to Versailles covered the distance of 10 miles in 29 minutes on the outward and 25 minutes on the return journey, nonstop. A .newspaper of the time describing the passing of the train at a point on the route says it was “similar to the speed of an English horse running in rhe beat race on the Champ de Mars."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 3
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103RAILWAY CENTENARY Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 3
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