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proper noun
- abbreviationShort for Brive-la-Gaillarde
This is an extremely difficult route from Vierzon onwards, largely through mountainous country, and hampered by severe speed restrictions south of Limoges, nothing more than 55 m.p.h. being allowed between Limoges and Alassac ^([sic]), 62 from there to Brive, and 50 from Brive to Caussade.
1955 January, 'Mercury', “French Railway Speed in 1954”, in Railway Magazine, page 11
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