Günter Dinhobl (Hrsg.): Sonderband 7. Eisenbahn/Kultur – Railway/Culture (2004)
I. Für eine Kulturgeschichte der Eisenbahn / Towards a cultural history of railways - Michael Cotte: Railways and Culture: An Introduction
Railways and Culture: An Introduction simple commercial competition. We may note that France had remained a country of expansive transportation costs for a very long time like a habit or an inevitable commercial fatality! Table 1: The lower bid of transportation rate in the Loire and Rhone region during the rise of the Saint-Etienne & Lyon railway project Year(s) Transportation style Prices in cents of francs per metric ton running at 1 km 1820-25 Classical road transportation 30-35 1823-1825 Rhone navigation: classical going up by tow around 20 1823-1825 Givors Canal: coal (others) 20(30) February 1823 Andrezieux railway, rate of the tender: coal (others) 23,5 (37,5) December 1823 Beaunier general rate for a railway proposal from St-Etienne to Rhone 29 October 1824 Proposal from the St-Chamond Consultative Chamber for the railway line: coal (industrial goods, others) 18 (25, 40) April 1825 Official enquiry and rate proposal from the Loire prefect, from his Saint- Etienne assistant 22,5 19 April 1825 General railway rate estimation by Seguin & Co 21,3 Summer 1825 Global estimation by the Loire newspapers 20 October 1825 Private negotiation between Seguin and Director of “Ponts et Chaussées” on the St-Etienne & Lyon project Going down: 10 Going up: 15 February 1826 Official Saint-Etienne & Lyon Railway guideline from the P & C Corps (it was the base of the tender for competition) 1 5 (unique rate) March 1826 Tender competition, 3 bidders: Berard, Lapanouse, Seguin (Winner) 14,7; 13,5 9,8 (unique rate) 55
