There are more than 200 million euros paid by the taxpayer, rotting on sidings Sotteville-les-Rouen ... Passing through the busy boulevard in this industrial town in the Seine Maritime, one can not miss them: on the bridge of Four-Mare, overlooking the largest French yard, one is inevitably drawn to those long queues of locomotives stored for months on inland railway . "There has never been greater," evidenced by the employees of a company that have equipment rental, just opposite a breathtaking view of the distressing show, this strange cemetery locos still alive. At last count conducted this week, 332 machines are stopped, including 164 considered new. Most of them have recently been restored, repaired in workshops Sotteville, others are nearly new, so good for the service for 30 years at least ... Harness the one behind the other, these machines' Diesel "and" diesel electric "occupy 12 channels of storage, which corresponds to a total length of 6.5 kilometers. And every week, the 12 lines are longer, much to the chagrin of railway, in one year, saw the rail freight business will reduce inexorably. "A machine like that costs between 1.5 and 2 million euros," said Gregory Laloyer, federation CGT-Cheminots. "If you consider that some of them there is a little outdated, over 200 million euros paid by the taxpayer, rotting here. What a mess! What a scandal! . For if the older locos are destined to take root in this makeshift cemetery, while some are doomed to destruction - "even if they can still help," resumed Thierry, maintenance technician of these machines - the others could be transferred to areas in need of means. "Especially in the PACA region where SNCF lack of machines and regularly hanging lines. Here, 80% of stored machines are versatile, that is to say, they may as well pull freight cars as passenger cars, "says Gregory Laloyer. Declining freight No, quite the contrary, they are on siding, open to vandals and graffiti artists who regularly steal the copper wiring, recyclable items ... For all of this huge railroad freight area for Many lovers for everything related to rail, this show is unbearable especially as the noise corridor pushing unions to disclose that before long, nearly 600 machines that will be stored in Sotteville-les-Rouen. A situation which moves also Pierre Bourguignon, the PS deputy mayor of this city who recently met with the railroad to support them. He complained in a letter in late January to Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Minister of Ecology and Transportation, "the dismantling of the tool that started with the end of sorting by gravity in April 2010, having the consequence of leaving many equipment, stock and non-rolling, abandonment. " For unions, it locomotives cemetery is the visible face of an activity in the doldrums: the share of rail freight over the past decade, dropped by half, resulting in declining enrollment. The rising discontent response announced thus Sotteville-les-Rouen, but also in the yard of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne) or Miramas (Bouches-du-Rhone) where, again, the workload decreases each day. "And this is where we call out as the minister," resumed Gregory Laloyer. "For the objective announced at the Grenelle the environment was to increase, by 2022, to 25% the volume of goods transported by rail or waterway transport. It will be difficult to achieve because today Fret SNCF, a subsidiary of Geodis, prefers to focus on its truck industry expense of rail. At Sotteville-les-Rouen, who was for years one of the yards the most modern in Europe, unions prepare the response therefore with several activities planned in the coming days. Because nobody has forgotten here in the 1980s, around 2,000 cars each day transiting this area. Today it a dozen passes, a few meters from the endless rows of rusting locomotives that defiles a little more each day. Freight freefall According to figures from management and unions, the SNCF's freight business at the national level increased from 55 billion ton-km to 26 billion over the past decade. And between 2008 and 2010, the staff dedicated to this sector increased from 14,933 to 11,793, say the unions
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