Nice - Photo Diary - 17th-20th February

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17th-20th February 2009


Images taken in Nice from 17th-20th February 2009.



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Nice Tramway
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Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild (Villa Ile de France - Cap Ferrat)

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17th-20th February 2009



Nice Tramway

Restored statue in the landscaped Place Garibaldi
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Tram 019 at Garibaldi
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Tram 019 at Garibaldi
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Tram 018 at Garibaldi
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Tram 018 at Garibaldi
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Tram 018 at Garibaldi
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Tram 002 at Garibaldi
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Tram 002 arriving at Garibaldi with pantograph lowerd
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Tram 002 at Garibaldi with pantograph rising
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Tram 002 at Garibaldi with pantograph raised
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Tram 014 at Libération
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Tram 016 at Jean Médecin
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Tram 016 at Jean Médecin
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Tram 016 at Jean Médecin
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Tram 016 at Jean Médecin
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Tram 007 at Garibaldi with advertising vinyls for the Nice 2018 Winter Olympics bid
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Tram 007 at Garibaldi with advertising vinyls for the Nice 2018 Winter Olympics bid
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Tram 007 at Garibaldi with advertising vinyls for the Nice 2018 Winter Olympics bid
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Tram 005 at Masséna
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Tram 015 at Gare Thiers
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Tram 016 at Gare Thiers
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Tram 010 at Gare Thiers
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Tram 007 at Jean Médecin, with advertising vinyls for the Nice 2018 Winter Olympics bid
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Tram 007 at Jean Médecin, with advertising vinyls for the Nice 2018 Winter Olympics bid
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Tram 007 at Jean Médecin, with advertising vinyls for the Nice 2018 Winter Olympics bid
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Tram 007 at Jean Médecin, with advertising vinyls for the Nice 2018 Winter Olympics bid
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Tram 009 at Jean Médecin
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Tram 015 at Jean Médecin
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Tram 009 at Jean Médecin
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Tram 005 at Masséna, with advertising vinyls for the Nice 2018 Winter Olympics bid
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Tram 005 at Masséna, with advertising vinyls for the Nice 2018 Winter Olympics bid
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Tram 011 at Masséna, with advertising vinyls for the annual carnival
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Tram 014 at Masséna, with wall decorations behind for the Carnival
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Tram 014 at Masséna, with seating and wall decorations for the Carnival
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Tram 017 at Masséna, with wall decorations for the Carnival
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Tram 017 at Masséna, with seating for the Carnival
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Tram 017 at Masséna, with seating for the Carnival
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Tram 014 at Masséna, with seating for the Carnival
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Tram 014 at Masséna, with decorations for the Carnival
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Tram 003 at Le Ray
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Tram 003 at Le Ray
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Tram 003 at Le Ray
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Tram 017 at Le Ray
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Tram 017 at Le Ray
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CP - Chemins de Fer de Provence

The Compagnie des Chemins de fer du Sud de la France (SF), built lines Nice-Digne and Nice-Draguignan-Meyrargues, before becoming in 1925, more modestly, the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de Provence (CP). The Gare du Sud was the Nice terminus for these lines.

Work on the Gare du Sud began in 1890 and finished in 1892 by Prosper Bobin for the Compagnie des Chemins de fer du Sud de la France. The station front is rather monumental and impressive with a high front, with two pavilions to the side. A tall trainshed covered the tracks that went to Grasse and Puget-Théniers. The line was extended to Annot and Digne in 1911. The rooftop was the previously used on the pavillion of Russia and Austria-Hungary at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris.

After World War II, the line to Meyrargues closed and the entire network almost followed it. However, the Nice-Digne line survived. The Chemins de Fer de Provence closed the impressive Gare du Sud in December 1991 and moved its terminating services to Nice CP. Ownership of the station building was transferred from l'Etat Français to Nice Municipality. Amidst public outcry, the station was almost dismantled but public demonstrations saved it. Work has finally started on the site, although it appears that only the facade will be retained in the new civic complex, containing the town hall, library etc.

Other CP Pages:-
CP Page 1A - Chemins de Fer de Provence Rolling Stock - Autorails
CP Page 1B - Chemins de Fer de Provence Rolling Stock - Diesel Locos & Trailers
CP Page 2 - Chemins de Fer de Provence Stations & Publicity



The train shed has now been removed from the Gare du Sud
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Railcar X-301 leaving Nice towing trailer XR-1331
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Railcar X-302 arriving at Nice
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Railcar X-302 at Nice
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Railcar X-302 at Nice
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Railcar X-302 at Nice
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Railcar X-302 cab
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Railcar X-302 at Lingostière
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Railcar X-303 at Lingostière
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Railcar X-303 at Lingostière
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Railcar X-303 at Lingostière
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Railcar X-303 at Lingostière
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Railcar X-302 at Lingostière
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Railcars X-302 and X-303 at Lingostière
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Railcar X-302 at Lingostière
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Railcar X-302 at Lingostière
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Henschel BB1200 at Lingostière
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Henschel BB1200 at Lingostière
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Railcar X-303 and X-302 at Lingostière
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Railcar X-302 and X-303 leaving Lingostière
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Railcar X-301 arriving at Lingostière
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Railcar X-301 arriving at Lingostière
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Railcar X-301 arriving at Lingostière
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Railcar X-306 at Nice
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Railcar X-306 at Nice
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Goods van at Lingostière
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Mega Express
(Corsica Ferries)

Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Mega Express arriving at Nice
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Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
Villa Ile de France

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is a French seaside palazzo constructed between 1905 and 1912 at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera by Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild (1864-1934). She named the Villa Ile de France after a voyage on the French Line vessel of the same name, although they no longer use this name in publicity. It was designed by the Belgian architect Aaron Messiah. A member of the prominent Rothschild banking family and the wife of the wealthy Russian banker Baron de Ephrussi, Béatrice de Rothschild built her rose-colored villa on a promontory on the isthmus of Cap Ferrat overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The Baroness filled the mansion with antique furniture, Old Master paintings, sculptures, objets d'art, and assembled an extensive collection of rare porcelain. On her death in 1934, the Baroness gifted the property and its collections to the Académie des Beaux Arts division of the Institut de France and it is now open to public visitation.


Villa Ile de France
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Villa Ile de France
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Villa Ile de France
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Villa Ile de France
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Villa Ile de France
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View from the Villa Ile de France
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Villa Ile de France gardens
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CGT official postcard of Ile de France. after which the villa was named.
Ile de France entered service in June 1927 on the Havre-New York route.






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