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Réseau Des Bains De Mer
The Réseau des Bains de Mer (RBM) was a group of five metre gauge railways centred on Noyelles-sur-Mer, with a total route length of some . It was a part of the ''Chemins de fer départementaux de la Somme''. Three of the lines are still open as the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme heritage line, and are dealt with under that article. This article covers the other two lines, now closed. All the lines were in the Somme department. The five lines were:- * Noyelles - Le Crotoy (opened 1 June 1887). * Noyelles - St. Valery sur Somme (opened 5 June 1858 tandard gauge/nowiki>, 6 September 1887 ual gauge). * St. Valery sur Somme - Cayeux sur Mer (opened 6 September 1887). * Noyelles - Forest-l'Abbaye (opened 24 August 1892, closed 10 March 1947 assengers/ 1 February 1951 reight/nowiki> ). * Abbeville - Dompierre-sur-Authie (opened 19 June 1892, closed 10 March 1947 bbeville - Forest-l'Abbaye and Crécy Estrées - Dompierre sur Authie, also to passengers between Crécy Estr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canchy, Somme
Canchy () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. There was a station on the Réseau des Bains de Mer which opened on 19 June 1892 and closed on 10 March 1947. Geography Canchy is situated just off the D928 road (it now bypasses the town), some north of Abbeville. Population See also * Communes of the Somme department *André Abbal André Abbal (1876–1953) was a French sculptor. He was commissioned to work on several war memorials and this article gives details of his most important work. Best known as a pioneer of "Direct carving" who became known as "''L'Apôtre de la T ... References Communes of Somme (department) {{Abbeville-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drucat
Drucat () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography Drucat is situated on the D82e road, some northeast of Abbeville. Population History There was a station on the Réseau des Bains de Mer, called ''Plessiel-Drucat'', which opened on 19 June 1892 and closed on 10 March 1947. Places of interest *Saint Martin's church. *The recently restored chapel. *Plessiel water-tower Personalities *The composer Jean-François Lesueur (1760–1837) was born at Plessiel, a hamlet within the commune of Drucat. The village hall is named in his honour. See also *Communes of the Somme department *Réseau des Bains de Mer The Réseau des Bains de Mer (RBM) was a group of five metre gauge railways centred on Noyelles-sur-Mer, with a total route length of some . It was a part of the ''Chemins de fer départementaux de la Somme''. Three of the lines are still open ... References Communes of Somme (department) {{Abbeville-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chemin De Fer Du Nord
The Chemins de fer du Nord at National Railway Museum website. Retrieved 28 July 2013 (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord or ''CF du Nord''), ( en, Northern Railway Company) often referred to simply as the Nord company, was a company, created in , , in September 1845. It was owned by, among others, |
Amiens
Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of Amiens was 135,429. A central landmark of the city is Amiens Cathedral, the largest Gothic cathedral in France. Amiens also has one of the largest university hospitals in France, with a capacity of 1,200 beds. The author Jules Verne lived in Amiens from 1871 until his death in 1905, and served on the city council for 15 years. Incumbent French president Emmanuel Macron was born in Amiens. The town was fought over during both World Wars, suffering significant damage, and was repeatedly occupied by both sides. The 1918 Battle of Amiens was the opening phase of the Hundred Days Offensive which directly led to the Armistice with Germany. The Royal Air Force heavily bombed the town during the Second World War. In the aftermath, the city was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouvion
Nouvion (; or sometimes Nouvion-en-Ponthieu) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography Nouvion is situated north of Abbeville, between the Somme estuary and the forest of Crécy, on the D1001 (ex-N1 national) departmental road junction with the departmental road D111. Railway Nouvion had a station on the Noyelles/ Forest-l'Abbaye branch of the Réseau des Bains de Mer. It opened on 24 August 1892, and closed on 10 March 1947, although the line itself remained open for freight until 1 February 1951. Media Nouvion is the setting for the BBC sitcom '''Allo 'Allo!'' However, no scenes were filmed in the town, with filming instead taking place in Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ... in England. Demography See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailly-le-Sec
Sailly-le-Sec (; pcd, Sailly-Sé) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography The commune is situated some east of Amiens, by the banks of the river Somme, on the D233 road. Population History 21 April 1918 - Manfred Von Richthofen, The Red Baron, was finally shot down here. On the night of August 8–9, 1918, as three Battalions of Doughboys from the 33rd U.S. Infantry Division were joining the Allied offensive during the Battle of Amiens, American war poet Lieut. John Allan Wyeth and Lieut. Thomas J. Cochrane were assigned to deliver sealed orders from Division HQ at Molliens-au-Bois to the Field Headquarters of all three Battalions engaged in the attack. The location of each Battalion was unknown, but they were believed to be along the northern bank of the Somme River The Somme ( , , ) is a river in Picardy, northern France. The river is in length, from its source in the high ground of the former at Fonsomme n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bray-sur-Somme
Bray-sur-Somme (, literally ''Bray on Somme'') is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Twin towns It is twinned with Inkberrow. Geography The communes is situated on the D1 and D329 road junction, some east-northeast of Amiens. The commune is surrounded by hills to the east and to the west. To the south, the marshes are crossed by the Somme. The town has been a strategic location over the centuries thanks to the four fords crossing the river here, the old boundary between Artois and Picardy. Population Etymology ''Bray'' is a place name of Celtic origin meaning "marshy land". The name ''Braium'' has been documented since about 630. History Early times Archeological searches have established that the area had Gallic and Roman occupation, confirmed by the weapons and various domestic objects found in and around Bray. In 630, '' Braium'' was under the domain of the abbey of St-Riquier. In 868, under the reign of Charles the Bald, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailly-Saillisel
Sailly-Saillisel is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography The commune is situated some northeast of Amiens, on the N17 and D172 roads, close to the border with the Pas-de-Calais. History * Theatre of operations of the Battle of Bapaume during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. * Theatre of operations of the Battle of the Somme during the First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ... of 1914–1918. Population See also * Communes of the Somme department References Communes of Somme (department) {{Péronne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the Côte d'Opale, a touristic stretch of French coast on the English Channel between Calais and Normandy, and the most visited location in the region after the Lille conurbation. Boulogne is its department's second-largest city after Calais, and the 183rd-largest in France.Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phosphates
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid. It most commonly means orthophosphate, a derivative of orthophosphoric acid . The phosphate or orthophosphate ion is derived from phosphoric acid by the removal of three protons . Removal of one or two protons gives the dihydrogen phosphate ion and the hydrogen phosphate ion ion, respectively. These names are also used for salts of those anions, such as ammonium dihydrogen phosphate and trisodium phosphate. File:3-phosphoric-acid-3D-balls.png, Phosphoricacid File:2-dihydrogenphosphate-3D-balls.png, Dihydrogenphosphate File:1-hydrogenphosphate-3D-balls.png, Hydrogenphosphate File:0-phosphate-3D-balls.png, Phosphate In organic chemistry, phosphate or orthophosphate is an organophosphate, an ester of orthophosphoric acid of the form where one or more hydrogen atoms are replaced by organic groups. An example is trimethyl phosphate, . The term also refers to the tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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