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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 ...
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad roundhouse, Durango, Colorado; Colorado Railroad Museum roundhouse, Golden, Colorado; Union Pacific roundhouse, Hugo, Colorado; Leadville, Colorado & Southern (D&RGW) roundhouse, Leadville, CO; Tiny Town RR roundhouse & turntable, Morrison, CO 15" gauge tourist RR
The factory in Val-Saint-Lambert built mainly wagons and carriages for ordinary field and narrow-gauge railways and for mining. [8] [9] [10] The agreement reached on co-operation between the two companies also provided for each of them to have a stake in the other. Thus Hippolyte-Eugène Boyer, the managing director of Decauville, joined the ...
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).
With a total of 29,901 kilometres (18,580 mi) of railway, France operated the second-largest European railway network in 2007. [4] As of 2021, it was among the ten longest railway networks in the world. [7] The first railway line in the country opened in 1827 from Saint-Étienne to Andrézieux.
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 ...
Line number Course route Line LGV Sud-Est: 429, 431 LGV Atlantique: 408 LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire: 216, 226 112, 222, 250 LGV Nord: 226 LGV Interconnexion Est