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14-681: On 15 September 1871, the French North Eastern railway was awarded a concession to construct the Somain to Roubaix & Tourcoing railway . The line aimed to transport coal to support textile industries in the area. Local municipalities had been consulted in June 1871, and a definitive route was published just over three years later on 12 January 1875. In 1876, the French Northern Railway acquired various railway lines in

28-456: A panoramic effect. He was renowned for the sheer size of his pictures, which ranged up to eight feet long for one panorama from around 1855, made from several negatives. Despite the documentary nature of many of his assignments, Baldus was inventive in overcoming the limitations of the calotype process (described here) . He often retouched his negatives to blank out buildings and trees, or to put clouds in white skies; in his composite print of

42-499: A moving record of the flood without explicitly depicting the human suffering left in its wake. Baldus was well known throughout France for his efforts in photography. One of his greatest assignments was to document the construction of the Louvre museum. He used wet and dry paper negatives as large as 10x14 inches in size. From these negatives, he made contact prints . To create a larger image, he put contact prints side by side to create

56-560: A regular luxury passenger train, Golden Arrow / Fleche d'Or , from London to Paris. Four containers were used to transport of passengers' baggage. These containers were loaded in London or Paris and carried to the ports of Dover or Calais, on flat cars in the UK, and "CIWL Pullman Golden Arrow Fourgon of CIWL" in France. In 1855, Baron Rothschild commissioned photographer Edouard Baldus to take

70-499: A series of photographs of the various landmarks on the railway line between Boulogne-sur-Mer and Paris. The photographs were used to create an album for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert , as a souvenir of their visit to France that year. The album can be seen in the photographic collection in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle . Edouard Baldus Édouard Baldus (5 June 1813, Grünebach, Prussia – 1889, Arcueil )

84-541: A series of photographs to be used as part of an album that was to be a gift to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a souvenir of their visit to France that year. The lavishly bound album is still among the treasures of the Royal Library at Windsor Castle . In 1856, he set out on a brief assignment to photograph the destruction caused by torrential rains and overflowing rivers in Lyon, Avignon, and Tarascon. He created

98-618: The Gare du Nord , the station the company built in Paris, the Paris–Lille railway led north towards Belgium, connecting to Amiens , Douai and Lille in 1846, with a branch line from Douai to Valenciennes . Lille and Valenciennes had already been connected to the Belgian railway network in 1842. The new line made it possible to travel by train from Paris to Brussels and further. The network

112-612: The area, including the short part of the Somain-Halluin Railway which was then open (10 miles between Somain and Orchies). In 1879, the line reached Tourcoing. The first section of the line to lose passenger trains was the stretch between Somain and Orchies, where services were withdrawn on 15 May 1939. The section between Ascq and Tourcoing followed six weeks later. Passenger services were maintained until December 1971 between Toircoing and Halluin. After passenger services were withdrawn, freight services continued to use

126-502: The grand boulevards of Paris, being carried out under the direction of Napoleon III 's prefect Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann . The high quality of his work won him government support for a project entitled Les Villes de France Photographiées , an extended series of architectural views in Paris and the provinces designed to feed a resurgent interest in the nation's Roman and medieval past. In 1855, Baron James de Rothschild , President of Chemin de Fer du Nord , commissioned Baldus to do

140-645: The line from Creil to Beauvais, owned by CF de l'Est predecessor Chemins de fer des Ardennes , was exchanged for the Nord's concession for Laon–Reims in 1855. In 1937, the CF du Nord was nationalised, as were the other main railway companies, to become part of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF). In 1926, in conjunction with the British Southern Railway , the CF du Nord began running

154-570: The line. However, the line was eventually shut down in stages: This French railway -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . French Northern Railway The Chemins de fer du Nord ( French : Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord or CF du Nord ), (English: Northern Railway Company ) often referred to simply as the Nord company, was a rail transport company founded in September 1845 in Paris . It

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168-710: Was a French landscape , architectural and railway photographer. Édouard-Denis Baldus was born on 5 June 1813 in Grünebach, Prussia . He was originally trained as a painter and had also worked as a draughtsman and lithographer before switching to photography in 1849. In 1851, he was commissioned for the Missions Héliographiques by the Historic Monuments Commission of France to photograph historic buildings, bridges and monuments, many of which were being razed to make way for

182-541: Was owned by, among others, de Rothschild Frères of France, N M Rothschild & Sons of London, Charles Laffitte and Edward Blount , and Baron Jean–Henri Hottinguer . Baron James de Rothschild served as the company's president from its inception until his death in 1868. A royal ordnance, dated 10 September 1845, granted the CF du Nord a concession to build a railway from Paris to Valenciennes and Lille, with branch lines to Dunkirk and Calais , and lines from Creil to Saint-Quentin and Fampoux to Hazebrouck . From

196-469: Was rapidly expanded in the following years: The potential for expansion of the CF du Nord territory was limited by other companies: the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest to its south-west, and the Chemins de fer de l'Est to its east. By opening a line from Paris to Hirson via Soissons and Laon from 1860 to 1871, the CF du Nord protected its eastern border against CF de l'Est expansion. The concession for

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