Tagged trein in the railway-station of Aulnoye.

As I went to the railway station of Aulnoye, I saw this tagged trein, an old yellow regional trein which got artistic paintings. But I wonder how people can look at the landscape out of the windows.
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Not far from Avesnois : the Florentine of Hirson.

Hirson is the first town you can meet when leaving the Avesnois and the department North and the North Country (50° until 51° North latitude) going to the South East. It is also not far from Belgium but a little more in the East to Avesnois. The railway station of Hirson like the railway station of Aulnoye-Aymeries was a long time on the railway road from London to Milan called Calais-Bâle. And here also, although there is no so much railway-trafic like in Aulnoye, you can find old testimonies of the intense railway activity of the past. Here seaking where a paint and photos exhibition with european artists take place, I came in a little road ending in the fields (that have to become a big road) and just stopped my car to take this picture of the "Florentine" of Hirson, a tower to control the shunting of the treins. I already published last year a picture of the Florentine of Aulnoye-Aymeries which became a cultural center. Near the one of Hirson you can find somewhat else : a big round place where the engines where turning around to take the right way and come to the right trein.

Avesnois belongs to the Thiérache and a big part of the Thiérache is in the neighbour department of Aisne, which belongs not like Avesnois to the Nord-Pas de Calais but to the Picardie, which are the administrative regions. A part of the Thiérache is also in Belgium. The part of the Thiérache belonging to Picardie is called "Thiérache de l'Aisne".

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253. At the edge of the forest : the railway crossing.

The autumn is going to an end. The trees are becoming yellow and red. This is the crossing from the railway with the train Paris-Maubeuge (old line of Paris-Amsterdam and Paris-Köln- Berlin-Moscow) with the road coming out of the forest of Mormal from about which I wrote this last days, and going to Landrecies, another town of the Avesnois.
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251. Some highlights in the South East of the Forest.

I photographed this map on the sign-board here or there. On the South-East of the Forest, the river Sambre is flowing next along the edge of it. And also the railway - it was not a long time ago 10 years ago, before the TGV (high speed train) goes through Lille- on an important line between Paris and Bruxelles.

The places drawn in red are some highlights of the forest. In the North-east of the picture, the Auberge du Croisil, one of the few inns you can find in the forest and where you can eat very good local cooking "s meals.

The little place drawn in red is the Carrefour de l'Ermitage. The roads are very straight in the forest and the important crossroads have often six or eight branches with foot paths and roads for cars.

In the west of the picture, you see a big red square. It is a place with two highlights, the Etang David or David's pool and the Arboretum of the Etang David, a big tree collection where you can see this (click on the word this.)

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