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Extensive 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) gauge lines were also built for the sugar-beet industry in the north often using ex-military equipment after the First World War. Decauville was a famous French manufacturer of industrial narrow-gauge railway equipment and equipped one of the most extensive regional 600 mm ( 1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in ) narrow ...
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Tracks with gauges close to one metre, sometimes assimilated to the meter-gauge, are shown in "other gauge". Other gauge: any line with a track gauge that is neither 1,435 mm nor 1,000 mm. As these gauges have always remained rare in France, narrow (less than 1,435 mm) and wide (more than 1,435 mm) gauge tracks are not differentiated. Source of ...
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 ...
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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.
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).