LarsS Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 What did a Norman highway -- or whatever other type of major road there might have been -- look like in the 1940s? How many lanes? What kind of surface and sealing? Any road surface markings? Basically I'm asking how best to build a Norman or generic French period highway in the editor. Also, would the "normal" railway lines have one or two (or several!) sets of tracks? Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaws Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 There were no highways in the period 1944-1945, only main roads numbered like N76 etc. Those were 2 lanes basically asphalt but not as broad as we have these days. A Tiger tank would have needed both lanes to drive on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsS Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 Cool. That would be the "Paved 1" style road. How convenient! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glukx Ouglouk Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Frankly, the French highway network was pretty much non-existent during the WWII time frame (unlike in Italy and Germany). It only got somewhat serious in the late 50's, and saw major development beginning in the 70's. As for railways, important ones would always have two sets of tracks, but small ones could definitely have a single set. And things can get a bit complicated near a train station, of course... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword56 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 So, aside from the "Nationale" numbered highways and the the Bayeux-St Lo and the St Lo-Isigny ones, what would the secondary and lower roads have been like? I'm assuming that the little lanes around farms and between fields would have been dirt. And the roads through villages would have been paved, but about the single-lane roads in between? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaws Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 None National routes were brick roads, gravel and dirt. Villages and bigger towns were paved or even asphalt. Once you left the village the roads would become brick roads, gravel and dirt again 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin Red Line Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Smaller roads, typically beetween villages, are called "routes departementales" ; their name starts with a "D" ; for instance : D8. Some of them probably were asphalt roads. In 1932 100,000km of Nationales and Departementales were already asphalted in France. So i would say a mix of paved and asphalted roads. http://www.lcpc.fr/francais/sources-d-information/hist_routes/article/lcpc-sources-d-informations-391 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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