France – Saintes Depot: Little changed from the days when it had an allocation of dozens of steam locomotives, Saintes depot today supports a small fleet of diesel railcars that handle the local traffic in the surrounding area of the Charente Maritime. This view could equally have shown 140C, 230G and 040TA – only the coaling plant and other steam age equipment has been removed. Oh yes, the buildings have been cleaned too! 16 April 2006

Roger Griffiths; jrcs@blueyonder.co.uk