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1) Ligne d'Italie     2) Ligne de Suisse occidentale

Type                                 Length                 Weight         Depth

1) transported from Morges to Bouveret for the "Ligne d'Italie" by the boat "l'Industriel",
   which sank in 1859,

  4 railway carriages,
  open wagons,           ~6-6.5 m (~21 ft)         ?t         300 m (984 ft)          history + photos   14/03/06


2) 20 years later, in Treytorrens, near Cully a bridge collapses, the train is derailed
on the 20th of February 1879, a train of the "Suisse occidentale" line was travelling from Villeneuve to Lausanne... but, ... the last 2 carriages come off the rails:

1 passenger carriage is smashed to pieces
  and
1 mail wagon                   ? m             ?t         0 to 3 m (0-10 ft)        photo, drawing, 4 contemporary articles 10/02/05
   ends up in the lake. . .