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The French National Railways used to run a considerable number of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge lines, a few of which still operate mostly in tourist areas, such as the St Gervais-Vallorcine (Alps) and the "Petit Train Jaune" (little yellow train) in the Pyrenees. The original French scheme was that every sous-prefecture should be ...
Pages in category "Narrow gauge railways in France" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Forest Railway Welschbruch; V. Voie ferrée d ...
The fourteen narrow gauge railways of the Nemours sand pits (French: Réseau des Sablières de Nemours), with a total length of about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) and three different gauges of 500 mm (19 + 3 ⁄ 4 in), 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) and 800 mm (2 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), ran from several sand pits and underground mines to a depot in Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours and from there to the Canal du ...
In many countries around the world, the term Decauville railway was used colloquially and even in legal texts as a synonym for all small and narrow gauge railways with a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in). Decauville took over under his name all the branches that had been founded by O&K in France.
APPEVA was formed in 1970 with the aim of preserving a 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) narrow gauge railway as a working museum. The CFCD was a good location, being between Paris and Lille near A1 motorway and close to Amiens. APPEVA operated its first train in June 1971 between Cappy and Froissy, a distance of 1 kilometre (1,100 yd; 0.62 mi).
This is a list of railway roundhouses. A roundhouse is a building used for servicing locomotives, large, circular or semicircular structures often located adjacent to or surrounding turntables. 1850s drawing of facade and plan of the roundhouse for Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway
The narrow gauge railway Issé–Abbaretz was an approximately 20 km (12 mi) long Decauville railway with a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) between the open-cast iron ore mines near Le Houx and the railway stations of Issé and Abbaretz in the French département of Loire-Atlantique in the Pays de la Loire region, which was mainly in operation 1913–1922 and 1928–1930.
A network of narrow-gauge railways (60 cm) [9] connected the various shafts to the coal-processing centre. On these tracks, sedans are pulled by small steam locomotives, known as "lucettes," or by horses. [9] [10] Other tracks with standard gauge railway link up with the Saint-Charles coal mine, which was first equipped with wide tracks before ...