All the story of the French rail-road wagons here, in French of course, but with interesting pictures:
trainconsultant.com/2021/08/21/ … nees-1930/
Froggy55:
All the story of the French rail-road wagons here, in French of course, but with interesting pictures:
trainconsultant.com/2021/08/21/ … nees-1930/
Bon jour Monsieur Froggy 
, I seem to recall that there were this type of operation in the U.K.
I think they were known as " Rail Roaders ". Some of us older Trucknet chaps will remember them.
British Railways were probably the main user of them.
Cheers, Au Revoir, Ray Smyth.
I notice in Froggy’s link, there are references to later versions in the '60s and '70s of the system that used ballasted tractors to haul railway wagons from the railheads directly to warehouses in the transport hub using the service roads. The railway wagons were then unloaded in the warehouses and returned to the railway again.
Such a system designed by Ferdom was operated at Sens. The wagons were pushed onto a multi-wheeled trailer, into which a railway line was set; and the ballasted tractor was used to tow this trailer off to the warehouse.
One of their ballasted tractors happened to be an ERF NGC ‘European’ (which is why I know about it!). Here is a brochure showing what they did:
Thanks! A shoe importer in the suburbs of Bourges used that system until the goods yard in Bourges station was detroyed by a fire in 1991. The ballasted tractor was a Berliet TLM 15 M3 belonging to MRCI (now PHP), and it was its only use; it could stay months at rest.
Once again for those of you who can read French, here’s another website on UFR trailers. They were quite widespread when I was a child in the early sixties in Paris and suburbs. Reversing all along the train withe the artic must have requested quite a lot of skill:
ree-modeles.com/revendeurs/62:p … =component
Some interesting last posts, cheers gents 
Heavy haulage with a Berliet TBO 15 M3.
ERF-NGC-European:
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A 1963-registrated Berliet TLM 10 M3.
Somewhere in France c. 1960, with a handful of Citroën 2 CV of the first type and also an Isetta bubble-car. The truck is a Somua JL 19 and the bus a Chausson AP.
Froggy55:
0Somewhere in France c. 1960, with a handful of Citroën 2 CV of the first type and also an Isetta bubble-car. The truck is a Somua JL 19 and the bus a Chausson AP.
Froggy, What is the uniform on the man in the foreground, do you know? I do not recognise it as French police. Any idea?
I tried to know more about uniforms of Paris’ police but apart from the white gloves, none of them match with this one. Maybe some kind of army guy attempting to cross the street?
Some more pictures of the late ‘50s or early sixties’ Parisian traffic.
1951-reg Berliet GDM 10 W and 1958-reg Peugeot 403 in the narrow Rue de Damiette (2nd arrondissement). The same spot today, and I somewhat doubt big trucks are still allowed to make deliveries there.
A load of paper coils unexpectedly tipped on a Peugeot 404 taxi
Froggy55:
I tried to know more about uniforms of Paris’ police but apart from the white gloves, none of them match with this one. Maybe some kind of army guy attempting to cross the street?
Perhaps, but he seems to be wearing shoes that I do not see as military. Unless they had a corps de ballet…!
PS. I hope the 404 had nobody in it when that happened.
I’m just wondering if he couldn’t be part of some special batalion of North-african soldiers in the French army. Indeed, his shoes look anything but military. I’ll try to know more.
Do any Australian contibutors of this forum remember that Panhard trucks were at a time sold in your country?
Some Panhard where sold in South Africa.
These two trucks (ALM made the modification in 4x4) were used on a 2500km tour through the Kalahari-desert…
a trip with only three refuelling points. The roof-deck was used for the film-crew. The Panhard-model is VS215K88
with a 110hp diesel and 10 speed gearbox.
