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SUMMARY:Railway closures in France\, 1900-1940 - Alexis Litvine (Universit
 y of Cambridge)\, co-authored with Matteo Mazzamurro and Alban de Gmeline
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DESCRIPTION:In this paper we investigate the early closures of railway lin
 es in France between 1910 and 1940. France experienced early on an intense
  network shrinkage with over 13\,903 km of railway lines and 2\,792 statio
 ns closed between 1910 and 1940. Multiple hypotheses have been put forward
  regarding the reasons for this wave of closures\, ranging from the financ
 ial troubles of railway companies\, the competition of early automobiles a
 nd interurban coach services\, and the rationalisation of the network lead
 ing to its nationalisation and the creation of the SNCF in 1938. We provid
 e a quantitative assessment of these different factors by using newly asse
 mbled data on road and rail networks over this period\, and estimating rai
 lway traffic using railway newsagent sales as a proxy for station passenge
 r counts. Finally\, we provide some indications of the consequences of the
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