HISTORY OF WORKSHOPS OF QUATRE-MARES

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 
     With the opening of the railroad from Paris to Rouen in 1843, the railroad is going to mark, very early, and profoundly the history of the Rouennaise agglomeration .

     The installation of engineering workshops of locomotives and wagons  as well as those of their maintenance is going to allow to root profoundly a “cheminote” tradition in a region marked up to here almost exclusively by the textile industry.

     It is the history of one of these workshops, named today «Technicentre of Rouen Quatre-Mares ", which the G.A.Q.M suggests you discovering. 

     In through the themes and more than 900 photos, we attempted to restore the activity of these workshops, as many from the point of view of buildings, than of that of work and of that of the men and to render tribute to the successive generations of Railwaymen which spent their life in one of the biggest repair workshops of the French railroads.

 

 

For the " Groupe Archives Quatre-Mares "

 

Joël LEMAURE