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Overview:
Quevy, France, is a municipality located in
the Belgian province of Hainaut. On January 1st, 2005 Quevy had
a total population of 7,750. The total area is 64.93 km² which
gives a population density of 118.64 inhabitants per km².
Since 1994, when
TGVs running via the new high-speed line replaced the day trains
hauled by multi-voltage locos between Brussels and Paris, only a
couple of passenger trains are still scheduled to cross the
border at Quévy - in the middle of the night. But much of the
substantial rail freight traffic between Belgium and France
still takes this route 24 hours/day. The motive power of almost
all these trains was routinely changed at Quévy until the end
of 2002, but both the SNCB and SNCB have a growing number of new
dual-voltage locos suitable for through operation and staff
training on thems has already begun. So the following summary
description of the facilities and procedures for performing the
transition between the two power supply systems has been
prepared. It is based on local observations and is coherent, but
should not be relied on as official sources of information have
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