Train schedules

Introduction

recto with timetable and map

verso with more timetable

This project aims to observe how a railway user of the middle of the 19th century could travel between some cities such as Paris, Lyon, Geneva or Marseille in regards to nowadays. Several aspects of the trip have been looked into, the journey path, the schedules of the trains and the price of the tickets. All of these information come from a single document that contains both a timetable and a map of the railway network and have been computed into a program, so one can look for a trip and find easily all the informations needed. This whole project puts into perspective how the evolution of transports, in this particular example trains, have made the world much more connected and travelling much easier.

The document

This project will focus on this old train schedules from 1858.

• History of the document, context, ...

Data extraction

• tools used
• classification of data
• etc

The program

• how it works
• example of comparaison