The '' 'Chemin de fer Touristique d'Anse' '' (also known as '' Voie de 38 ''), is managed by a French

association Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary associatio ...

. It is located in the city center of Anse, in the

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department in the

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...

region. It offers journeys of approximately forty five minutes on trains running on a

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track. Trains run from April to October, Saturdays, Sundays and some public holidays. The Anse SNCF station is located near the starting point.

History

It was in 1968 that André Chaumeil and Guy Mathan implemented their idea of creating a model train that could carry passengers. They chose the English scale, which is the common scale between real train and model making. They built a machine inspired by the SNCF Locomotor Y9201, with the engine of a

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, and a wagon serving as the driver's seat. This first train called “Yoyo” is presented at Francheville on a long track installed in the property of a friend of the manufacturers. The following year the route was moved to

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on the banks of the

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, with a simple verbal agreement from the mayor, its length doubled. That same year 1969, the designers and their friends founded the "Association of Model Railroads on track of gauge. In 1971, the new mayor refused to renew the agreement and therefore the line had to be moved.

Association CFT Anse

The CFT Anse, is an association law 1901. Its 60 members build, maintain and drive the trains. They do not hesitate to visit the depot and present the material. The depot-workshop is located at 560 route de Saint Bernard in Anse.

Line from Anse-Pont to Anse-Plage

The rails meander from the heart of the town of Anse to the Colombier lake, where there is a beach and small paths along the

. The departure is carried out in main station at Anse-Pont, then the train runs along the

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, passes under the bridge

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then under that of the

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. After two blasts of the horn, he crossed the access road to the `` Portes du Beaujolais campsite via a barrier-free

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. The rails now thread between small green hills, then the train goes down and it is the passage of the tunnel; after this, he begins the long straight line towards the lake and its beach. A

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at each end of the line allow locomotives to be turned around. The machinery depot has also been erected in May 2016, for the operation of the locomotives.

scale trains

The trains are approximately scale reproductions of real

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: three

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s, one

X 4900 SNCF's X 4900 is a diesel multiple unit railroad car of the Caravelle family. They are derived from the two-car X 4630 DMU with which they share the same Saurer engines as well as their hydraulic gear box. The railcars possessed more power t ...

(blue and white), one

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(red and cream) and a

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, the ancestor of the

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(metallic gray). These 3 low-bed or tricaisses railcars are motorized with Citroën 2CV engines, with the 2CV

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; a BB type diesel locomotive, motorized with a }

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, hydraulic gearbox; a type 131 steam locomotive with separate tender was put into service in the spring of 2016. It was officially named "La Fernande" on September 4, 2016; a Y 9200 type 2-axle shunting tractor, currently powered by a Citroën 2CV engine; three covered

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and three large

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s; and various Railway track#Maintenanceservice cars: dumpers, two long

flat wagon Flat wagons (sometimes flat beds, flats or rail flats, US: flatcars), as classified by the International Union of Railways (UIC), are railway goods wagons that have a flat, usually full-length, deck (or 2 decks on car transporters) and little ...

s, three ballast tanks and three sedans. File: Gare de Anse Pont.jpg, alt=View of the main station of the tourist railway Anse Pont with two trains in station, Main station Anse Pont. File: BB CFT Anse.jpg, alt=View of the Anse Plage tourist railway station with a train in the station, Anse Plage station

Member of UNECTO

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Notes and references

External links

CFT Anse official site
* Facebook pages
Voie de 38 and La Fernande
page * website dedicated to CFT Anse
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