France really flexed on its railroad game in the late 1800s, expanding fast and making connections that changed the entire landscape.
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Now do Germany. It’s insane.
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There’s a very depressing one you can do for the UK which is before and after 1965. In essence, a lot of the smaller lines disappear due to a misguided attempt to save money
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From stolen money baby
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now let’s try 1979-2014, it would go at the same pace.. in compression this time.
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What Paris centrism (and capital centrism as a whole) does to a mf
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It’s one of the main reasons the allies won ww1 (or better to say, why they didn’t lose before they won)
They always had the superior railroad bejind their lines, allowing reinforcements go get to the place they needed faster then germans could with the railroad lines available to them on the part of france they fought on.
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I just saw a map of the US railroad expansion and thought it would be interesting to show france’s.
Why 1879 ? That year, the Freycinet plan (proposed by the minister of civil engineering, Charles de Freycinet) was voted by the parliament. The plan’s goal was to give access to the railway to all French people. In the end, 8848 km of railroad were built, linking all the sous-préfectures (local center of powers) in mainland France in 1914.
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France really flexed on its railroad game in the late 1800s, expanding fast and making connections that changed the entire landscape.
Now do Germany. It’s insane.
There’s a very depressing one you can do for the UK which is before and after 1965. In essence, a lot of the smaller lines disappear due to a misguided attempt to save money
From stolen money baby
now let’s try 1979-2014, it would go at the same pace.. in compression this time.
What Paris centrism (and capital centrism as a whole) does to a mf
It’s one of the main reasons the allies won ww1 (or better to say, why they didn’t lose before they won)
They always had the superior railroad bejind their lines, allowing reinforcements go get to the place they needed faster then germans could with the railroad lines available to them on the part of france they fought on.