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reporterre.net]
Google will translate to English if one presses the right button.
Dunno anything about the writers, but the survey is very interesting
I found it on this German site
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www.drehscheibe-online.de]
Google's translation of German is awful, but then German syntax is backwards compared to latin based .
If one goes to that site , there is a German that goes by "railwalker" who hikes abandoned and out of service French Ry lines. His recent posts have been about some of the latter, which are probly noted on the color map of the first url