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Établissements Billard
Établissements Billard was a French railway rolling stock construction company founded in 1920 and based in Tours. It specialised in light railbuses and metre gauge and narrow gauge rolling stock. The business ceased trading in 1956 and later became Socofer. Production Draisines * Draisines : These worked on different Voie ferrée d'intérêt local, VFILs, and for the "Big Companies" which became the SNCF. Locomotives * T50 * T75D * T75P * T75G These were designed for the Chemin de fer militaire, French Military Railway. They were used, among other things, to service the Maginot Line. * SNCF Class Y 7100 Railbuses Railbuses for numerous French Voie ferrée d'intérêt local, VFIPs (secondary railways) * Type A 80D, * Type A 135D, * Type A 150D, * Type A 210D, * Networks of the Compagnie des chemins de fer départementaux, including: ** Chemins de fer de Corse, Corse, ** Chemin de fer du Vivarais, Vivarais, ** Indre et Loire, ** Seine-et-Marne * Tramways d'Ille-et-Vilaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Draisine Billard RB
A draisine () is a light auxiliary Rail transport, rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure. The eponymous term is derived from the German inventor Freiherr, Baron Karl Drais, who invented his ''Laufmaschine'' (German language, German for "running machine") in 1817, which was called ''Draisine'' in German (''vélocipède'' or ''draisienne'' in French) by the press. It is the first reliable claim for a practically used precursor to the bicycle, basically the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse. Later, the name draisine came to be applied only to the invention used on rails and was extended to similar vehicles, even when not human-powered. Because of their low weight and small size, they can be put on and taken off the rails at any place, allowing trains to pass. In the United States, motor-powered dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APPEVA
The Froissy Dompierre Light Railway (, CFCD) is a narrow gauge light railway running from Froissy (a hamlet of La Neuville-lès-Bray) to Dompierre-Becquincourt, through Cappy, in the Somme department, France. It is run as a heritage railway by APPEVA (''Association Picarde pour la Préservation et l'Entretien des Véhicules Anciens'') and is also known as ''P'tit Train de la Haute Somme''. It is the last survivor of the narrow gauge trench railways of the World War I battlefields. History In 1915, the French Army built a railway along the Somme Canal between Péronne and Froissy. Between 1916 and 1918 the railway was at the Allied front line, and transporting 1,500 tonnes of materials daily. At Froissy, the metre gauge Réseau Albert connected with the CFCD. After the war, the railway was used in assisting with the reconstruction and also to bring food into the villages it served. New lines were laid including a zig-zag to reach the Santerre Plateau. The line was by this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tacot Des Lacs
The Tramway at Bourron (French language, French ''Réseau des Sablières de Bourron au Canal du Loing'') was a long gauge railway that ran from the sand pits at Bourron-Marlotte via the Bourron-Marlotte – Grez station, Bourron-Marlotte – Grez railway station to the Canal du Loing opposite to Montcourt-Fromonville in France. History The ''Société des Sandlières de Bourron'' was founded in 1911 to exploit the Bourron sand pits, located in the Forest of Fontainebleau, west of the village of Bourron-Marlotte and north of the Bourron-Marlotte – Grez railway station. Very high quality quartz glass can be produced from the dazzling white sand mined in the Arrondissement of Arrondissement of Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau. It is mainly used for the production of crystal glass and optical glass, e.g. for the optical instruments of NASA.Philippe Lévêque et Daniel Tallet''Petits Trains pittoresques.''Éd. Jean-Cyrille Godefroy, 12, rue Chabanais, 75002 Paris.According t''Ancien r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
