- Title: BELGIUM & WEST GERMANY: FINAL STRETCH OF PARIS - BONN ELECTRIC RAIL LINE OPENED
- Date: 18th May 1966
- Summary: 1. GV TRAIN IN BRUSSELS MIDI STATION 0.04 2. SV SIGN 0.07 3. SV TRAIN 0.10 4. CU PAN. CREST ON TRAIN 0.15 5. SV TRAIN 0.21 6. CU DRIVER PAN TO CONTROLS 0.26 7. TRAVEL SHOT. ANOTHER TRAIN PASSES 0.30 8. CU PASSENGERS (2 SHOTS) 0.40 9. SV SIGN 0.43 10. SV TAPE CUTTING AT AACHEN 0.51 11. CU DRIVER 0.54 12. TRAVEL SHOT. FROM CAB 0.58 13. GV CROWD AT COLOGNE 1.02 14. SV SIGN 1.06 15. SV BERTRAND SPEAKING 1.08 16. LV CROWDS IN STATION 1.14 Initials JGS/VS/RM/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 2nd June 1966 13:00
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- Location: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM. AACHEN & COLOGNE, WEST GERMANY
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- Country: Belgium
- Reuters ID: LVAC5S66R8FCQ2AQ6OOK4ETTS5ST
- Story Text: THE FINAL STRETCH OF THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY LINE WHICH WILL LINK PARIS, BRUSSELS COLOGNE AND BONN WAS OPENED TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THE LAST STRETCH OF THE LINE, WHICH WAS OPENED TODAY, WAS BETWEEN LIEGE, BELGIUM AND HERBESTAL, WEST GERMANY. THE TRAIN LEFT BRUSSELS WITH MANY OFFICIALS OF THE BELGIUM AND WEST GERMANY WAS CUT TO MARK THE OPENING OF THE LINE. THEN ON TO COLOGNE WHERE THE BELGIUM MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS, MR ALFRED BERTRAND, TOLD GUESTS OF THE EFFECTS WHICH THE NEW LINE WOULD MAKE TO BELGIUM-WEST GERMANY TRADE.
THE OPENING OF THE NEW LINE NOW LINKS BONN WITH THE BELGIUM PORT OF OSTEND.
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