Association Internationale d’Histoire des Chemins de fer International Railway History Association

Asociación Internacional de Historia Ferroviaria

Lettre d’information / Newsletter / Boletin informativo

Number 12, September 2017

Conception: R. Roth ; Editorial chief: H. Jacolin, Paul Veron; Contributors: Ralf Roth, Andrea Giuntini, Jeger Gabor, H. Jacolin. Ma-rie .Noelle. Polino

Editorial

After Kevin Sutton's resignation, the IRHA newsletter has been left without a chief editor. So, Paul

Véron and Henry Jacolin decided to join their efforts to publish a new issue of the newsletter,

simplified, as they do not have Kevin's graphical talent. As Ralf Roth proposed to improve the

presentation, we can supply you with informations on the activity of our association. It is time, as we

are preparing our 8th conference on International Railway History about the topic “Railways and the

Great War”. The event will take place in Budapest in November and December 2018.

Of course, if anyone of you is ready to take over the position of chief editor, he is most welcome.

IRHA FLYER

A new IRHA flyer, identical to the present one, but with an update about the activities of our

association, will be printed soon, thanks to the assistance of Paul Véron. Please let us know how many

copies you would like to receive.

IRHA GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 20 FEBRUARY 2017

The IRHA general assembly took place at the headquarters of UIC in Paris. Nine members were present

and twenty represented by a member with a proxy vote.

1. Activity Report The president mentioned a slight increase of the number of members who have paid their fee. In 2014

we counted 28 and in 2016 31. They represent 18 countries. Membership includes five organisations:

AHICF/Rails et Histoire, Asociacion Iberica de Historia Ferroviara, SNCF, UIC and TICCIH.

Paul Véron confirmed the proposal made in 2014 to edit a directory of the members with photos.

2. Finances The accounts of the association presented by our treasurer Andrea Giuntini are sound and save: After

the Istanbul conference we have consolidtated a positive balance of 5.300 Euros at the end of 2016.

The General Assembly proposed to devote 3.000 Euros for the Chile conference book in 2017 and

3.000 Euros for the Istanbul conference book in 2018, what will leave around 5.000 Euros available for

the Budapest conference.

3. Publication of the books of the previous conferences The general secretary Ralf Roth informed the members and the board about the status of several

publication projects about former conferences.

Mechelen, 2010: All texts for “The Cities and the Railways in the World” are ready. Ralf Roth just needs

some time to write the introduction, but there will be a finish soon and publication in 2018.

Lviv 2011: “The Great Longing for railways” our conferences about the question, how the periphery

became connected with the centers of industrialisation. This project is in a certain crisis because of

the language question and other reason. The drafts of the articles are very heterogeneous because

some are in English, others in Ukrainian or Russian that we cannot imagine to produce a publication

out of it. It was suggested to publish some of them (these that are avaiable) on the IRHA website which

would afford the permission of the authors.

Santiago de Chile 2013: “Railways in Latin America, History and Legacy, XIX–XX centuries”. The book

will be edited by our board member Javier Vidal together with Teresita Gomez (Buenos Aires

university) and it will be published by the Buenos Aires University Press as well in Spanish as in

Portuguese. The manuscript will be delivered in March 2017 and is foreseen for publication in Spring

2018. 3.000 Euros for printing costs are available by our organisation.

Istanbul November 2016: “Rails Routes from the Baghdadbahn to the New Silk Road”. As many

lecturers asked IRHA to publish the records of this conference quickly, Ralf Roth asked them to

develop their presentations to an article of scientific quality. As a first step, UIC can help to produce

within a short time a DVD including program, list of participants, abstracts, power points, etc.

4. Next conferences Budapest Autumn 2018: “Railways and the First World War”. The Organisation Committee includes

Henry Jacolin, Andrea Giuntini, Marie-Noëlle Polino, Dorin Stanescu, Csaba Horvath and Gabor Jeger.

The Scientific Committee will include a number of experts, among them members of our association.

The concept will be written by Andrea Giuntini who proposed the following time frame and steps up to

the conference:

- Distribution of the call for papers October 2017 - Deadline for the submission of papers 15 December 2017 - Evaluation of the papers by the Scientific Committee Dec. 2017 to Feb. 2018 - Acceptance of the papers by the Scietific Committee: March 2018 - Decision about the schedule of the conference May 2018 - Distribution of the schedule June / July 2018

Nigeria: “Railways in Africa: From an Analysis of the Past to a Vision of the Future”.The GA invited the

Nigerian members to present at the end of April a draft project for a possible conference.

5. Elections The General Assembly confirmed the members of the board in its current composition of 19 members

and decided to accept as the twentiest member the Asociacion Iberica de Historia Ferroviara which will

be represented by Pedro Pablo Ortuňez Goicolea.

The General Assembly assigned Ihor Zhaloba to represent the association in Eastern Europe, in close

cooperation with the bureau, to promote IRHA in these countries.

6. Bureau In the break the members of the board separated themselves from the GA and decided to maintain the

current composition of the bureau.

IRHA 2018 Conference: Railway and the First World War in Budapest

(Hungary)

The 8th international conference of our association is foreseen to take place in Budapest from 28

November to 1 December 2018. The conference is entitled: “Railways and the First World War”. Thanks

to the assistance of our Hungarian colleagues Csaba Horvath and Gabor Jeger it will be located in the

premisses of the National University of Public Service.

The Scientific Committee is chaired by our

treasurer, Andrea Giuntini. He will disclose

the list of the members of this committee,

which listed a number of IRHA members,

soon. However, the concept of the

conference has been written and will be

translated from Italian to English. The

translation will be available within a few

days. As soon as we will get it we can

launche the call for papers.

International Conference on Railway Hitory of Hungary in Debrecen

from 20–21 April 2017

Invited by our Hungarian colleagues, Henry Jacolin was ready to participate to this conference. But,

having had an eye operation some days before, he was, unfortunately, obliged to cancel his

participation. We ask our Hungarian members who had taken part at the conference to send in a short

account of the conference and its result.

Annual Meeting of Fedecrail in Antwerp (Belgium) from 4-6 May 2017

Henry Jacolin was present at the Fedecrail meeting (European Association of Museums and Tourist

Railways), which was attended by more than 100 delegates from, not only Europe, but the whole world.

He presented the activities of our association and the books already published to the audience of this

conference. It was a surprise for the delegates to hear about IRHA and to get informed about a lively

association and its impressive series of publications. Jacolin told Jaap Nieweg (Dutch), who will serve

as president after his election by the conference, that heritage is only one aspect of the purposes IRHA

has been created for and this is why our organisation treated heritage only “on the margin“.

Nevertheless IRHA is ready to cooperate with Fedecrail on this issue in the future. He suggested that

Fedecrail becomes an IRHA member. Henry Jacolin will follow the progression of our ideas through

Jacques Daffis, vice president of Fedecrail and vice president of UNECTO, the French branch of

Fedecrail.

Conference of Societa Italiana Di Storia Contemporanea in Padova

(Italy) on 13 September 2017

Andrea Giuntini organised (together with Stefano Maggi) a session – “Un paradigma per la storia della

mobilità” – at the conference CANTIERI DI STORIA IX (Società italiana di storia contemporanea) held in

Padova from 13 to 15 September 2017. Giuntini´s panel includes: Massimo Moraglio and Simone Fari,

“Alla ricerca di una (nuova) ontologia della storia dei trasporti e della mobilità”; Stefano Maggi,

“Intermodalità e integrazione dei servizi: una lettura storica”; Eleonora Belloni, “La sfida della mobilità

sostenibile: le lezioni del passato; Andrea Giuntini, La mobilità avversata. Il caso della linea ferroviaria

Torino-Lione”

Contact: Andrea Giuntini (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia): andrea.giuntini@unimore.it Stefano Maggi (Università di Siena) stefano.maggi@unisi.it Massimo Moraglio (Technische Universitaet Berlin) massimo.moraglio@tu-berlin.de Simone Fari (Universidad de Granada) fari@ugr.es Eleonora Belloni (Università di Siena) belloni4@unisi.it

VII. Congresso de Historia Ferroviaria in Valencia (Spain) from 18–20

October 2017)

Henry Jacolin has been invited by Javier Vidal Olivares, the president of the Railway history congress

in Valencia (Espaňa), which is organised by the Iberian Association of Railway History, member of

IRHA. It will give Henry an opportunity to present the activities of our association. This congress will

be attended by the following members of our association: Hugo Silveira Pereira (Portugal) and

Francisco Polo Muriel (Spain), who will deliver two lectures:

1. “Des réformes à opérer dans l'exploitation des chemins de fer…”, una fuente para el estudio del

ferrocarril en el pensamiento de Pierre Joseph Proudhon.

2. Evolución del empleo y depuración de personal en una empresa ferroviaria en la retaguardia

franquista: la Compañía del Ferrocarril Zafra-Huelva (1936–1943).

International Congress of Railway History in Mendoza (Argentina)

from 8–10 November 2017

Henry Jacolin will attend the International Congress of Railways History, which will take place in

Mendoza (Argentina) on the theme: “Railways, History and Industrial Heritage”. This congress is

organised jointly by the Argentinian committe of TICCIH, by the environment, architecture and

urbanism faculty of the University of Mendoza, and, thanks to Gracia Dorel Ferré, member of our board

and representative of TICCIH in France, by our association.

This will give our president an opportunity to present our association, to boost again the project of

IRHA to organise a second conference in Latin America. This was the wish of not only a few who

attended our first conference in Latin America in Santiago de Chile), and, eventually to discuss the

project of publication of the records of our 2013 conference.

22 ed. of CINERAIL in Lisbon from 27–29 November 2017

The UIC together with Portuguese Railways (CP) are jointly organising the 22nd edition of CineRail, the

International Railway Film Competition which will take place in Lisbon from 27 to 29 November 2017.

CineRail is supported by a number of partners including Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP), UITP, the

Municipality of Lisbon and its association for Cultural action EGEAC, Turismo de Lisboa, Metro of

Lisbon,

The CineRail 2017 edition will be exclusively

dedicated to railway corporate films, films

produced for railways, public transport

companies or other institutions dealing with

rail transport, for corporate communications,

promotion of rail transport or internal

communications.

An international jury will evaluate the films and

deliver awards ("CineRail"s) in the various

categories. One category is films about railway

history and railway heritage.

Trains Expo SNCF. It will take place at the

cinema 'Sao Jorge' located avenidad de

Liberdad and will be open to the public.

Around 60 films produced in the period

between 2015 and 2017 have been registered

to CineRail. Projections in the cinema are open

to the public and all persons interested for the

audiovisual communications of railways. IRHA

Members are of course all cordially invited.

Our Vicepresident Paul Véron is CineRail Vice

chairman and can therefore, provide more

detailed information in view of your participation (veron@uic.org or cinerail@uic.org).

NEWS FROM IRHA MEMBERS

1. About some of us Marie-Noëlle Polino in her capacity as scientific secretary of the

Association pour l'histoire des chemins de fer/Rails et histoire, represented this association in the

administration board since the creation of IRHA in 2002. Having moved to the SNCF Direction of

communications, she applied to be a member of our association, what was unanimously accepted by

the board on May 1 2017. She has been decorated as chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite on

September 18 by David Azéma, president of Rails et histoire. Our association is happy to congratulate

warmly Marie-Noëlle for this award. I just remind that, since I am IRHA president, Marie-Noëlle always

gave me excellent advices on many technical issues concerning the activity of IRHA. Merci, Marie-

Noëlle.

Henry Jacolin and el Ferrocarril de Sὀller (Mallorca). A cousin of Henry Jacolin is the grand grand

daughter of a Spanish gentleman, Senior Piza, who, living in Sóller (northern harbour of Mallorca),

financed, as many businessmen and farmers of this city, the construction of the railway from Palma de

Mallorca to Sóller, which was opened in 1913 (27 km, 914 mm gauge, electrification 1200 volts

continu). Having inherited shares of this private company, my cousin is member of the administration

board. With her assistance, I could travel last August from Palma to Sóller in the driving cabin of the

locomotive and visit the workshops which maintain in excellent condition the vintage rolling

stock.This railway is still very active (one million passengers a year) I have sent a letter to the

president of the board to thank him.

Christophe Keseljević is president of AFAC (Association française des amis des chemins de fer). He

writes articles on railway issues in the magazine of this association (Chemins de fer). He is still

member, but on his own, of the UIC high speed commission. As president of Ckrail consulting he gives

advices in the USA on high speed projects.

2. Partitipation at conferences Csaba Sándor Horváth: A vasút szerepe a város és a lokális infrastruktúra fejlődésében két helyi minta

alapján (The role of the railway in the development of city and the local infrastructure due to 2 local

patterns). III. National Railway History Conference Hungary in Debrecen from 21. to 22. April 2017.

Csaba Sándor Horváth: A Sopron-kőszegi HÉV funkciói és a kőszegi vasúti infrastruktúra fejlődése

(The functions of the Sopron-Kőszeg Local-railway and the development of the railway infrastrucutre

in Kőszeg). The traffic history of the Western-Transdanubian Region Conference. New results int he

research – Heritage protection. Hungary in Szombathely at 21. September 2017.

Hugo Silveira Pereira has visited the 25th International Conference of History of Science and

Technology in Rio de Janeiro in July 2017, and will also take part as well at The 8th Tensions of Europe

Conference in Athens in September 2017 as on SPMobilities in São Paulo in October 2017.

3. Publications of members dealing with railways topics Csaba Sandor Horváth: “A vasút funkcióváltozása és használata Magyarországon Trianon után, in:

Torgyik Judit (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok a társadalomtudományok köréből. Komárno:

International Research Institute 2017, 292–302, ISBN 978-80-89691-46-3.

Csaba Sándor Horváth: “Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia és az Oszmán Birodalom közötti vasúti

összeköttetés létrejötte, in: Aetas: Törtenettudomanyi Folyoirat 1, 2017, 81–101.

Csaba Sándor Horváth, Majdán János, and Varga Gábor: “The relationship between railways and

agriculture through the examples of GYSEV and Fertővidéki (HÉV) Local-railway to 1920”, in: Szendrő

Katalin, Horváthné Kovács Bernadett, Barna Róbert (szerk.): Proceedings of the 6th International

Conference of Economic Sciences. Kaposvár: Kaposvár University 2017, 583–594.

Csaba Sándor Horváth: “A vasút funkciói és társadalmi, gazdasági hatásai Magyarországon 1920iger

Jahre”, in: Közlekedes Zlekedestudomanyi Szemle 67, 4, 2017, 52–59.

Ana Cardoso de Matos’: “La gare du Rossio à Lisbonne (1890). Porte d’entrée de la modernité, au seuil

de la tradition”, in: Karima Haoudy et Isabelle Sirjacobs (eds.), Une architecture nomade. Les gares

belges en métal à travers le monde. CHST: Liège 2017, ISBN 978-239-0100-74-4.

Ana Cardoso de Matos: “A mobilidade dos engenheiros e a transferência de tecnologia ligada com as

obras públicas e o caminho-de-ferro (século XIX)”, in: Rui Fernandes Póvoas e João Mascarenhas

Mateus (ed.): Atas do 2º Congresso Internacional de História da Construção Luso-Brasileira. Culturas

partilhadas. Porto 2017, vol. 2, 1157–1167, ISBN 978-989-8527-11-0.

Ana Cardoso de Matos e Fernanda de Lima Lourencetti: “Dos Reusos do Património Ferroviário às

Estratégias da sua Integração na Paisagem Urbana”, in: Actas VII Congreso sobre Conservación del

Patrimonio Industrial y de la Obra Pública en España, 2017, 256–262, ISBN 978-84-945966-5-0.

Magda Pinheiro e Ana Cardoso de

Matos: “La construction ferroviaire au

Portugal: concepts, modèles et

intervenants, in: Dominique Barjot et

Marie-Claude Esposito (dir):

Mondialisation, Modèles nationaux de

développement et stratégies

d'entreprise. SPM: Paris 2016, 34–53,

Ivan Jakubec: Transfer inovací: patenty, licence a celní úlevy v meziválečném Československu. Vyd. 1.

Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy 2014, ISBN 978-80-7308-533-9.

Ivan Jakubec et Zdeněk Jindra (Koll.): Hospodářský vzestup českých zemí od poloviny 18. století do

konce monarchie. První vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum 2015,

ISBN 978-80-246-2945-2.

Ivan Jakubec et Jan Śtemberk: “Vůz rozbit, kůň zabit, kočí zůstal bez pohromy." Dopravní neštěstí jako

součást lidského života ((Carriage broken, horse killed, coachman unharmed. Traffic accidents as part

of human life), in: Martin Hrdina, Eva Bendova et Kateřina Piorecka (eds.): Člověk a společnost 19.

století tváří v tvář katastrof. Praha 2017, 107–121.

Ivan Jakubec: Cesta Svazu vynálezců do Národního technického muzea. Svaz vynálezců v letech 1920-

1951 (The Inventors Association and their Approach towards National Technical Museum. A Look at

the Inventors Association in Prague during 1920–1951), in: Historická sociologioe, 1, 2017, 73–92.

Jan Śtemberk et Ivan Jakubec: “Die Oberste

Preisbehörde - ein Regulator für Tourismusdienstleis-tungen (1939–1949)”, in: Prague Economic and

Social History papers 24, 2, 2016, 7–22.

Hugo Silveira Pereira: “The techno-diplomacy of Iberian transnational railways in the second half of

the nineteenth century”, in: History and Technology 33, 2, 2017, 175–195)

Hugo Silveira Pereira: “Tecnologia, periferia, caciquismo: Abílio Beça e o caminho-de-ferro de

Bragança”, in: Análise Social 52, 1, 222, 2017, 40–71.

Hugo Silveira Pereira: “Fronteiras E Caminhos-De-Ferro: Da Quimera Saint-Simoniana Ao Desencanto

Tecnodiplomático (C.1850-C. 1900)”, in: Revista de História das Ideias 37 (forthcoming this Winter)

Francisco Polo Muriel: Una Ínsula Industrial en la Mancha de Ciudad Real: La Factoria de Material

Ferroviario de Construcciones Devis y Macosa de Alcazar de San Juan, 1941–1991,

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=93RzDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=es

&pg=GBS.PA2707

Toader Popescu: “On the Nation's Margins. Territorial and Urban Policies during the Romanian

Administration of Southern Dobrudja (1913-1940)”, in: sITA – studies in History and Theory of

Architecture 4, 2016, 103-121 (http://sita.uauim.ro/4/a/43/).

Toader Popescu: „Railway Infrastructure and Urban Planning – the Romanian Case (1870-1920)”,

paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Urban History, Helsinki, 2016.

Ralf Roth (Hg.): Europäisch-Asiatische Verkehrsverbindungen, Themenheft der Zeitschrift für

Weltgeschichte 18, H. 2, 2017 (will be published in Fall this year).