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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] |
Micheline (railcar)
Michelines were a series of rubber-tyred trains developed in France in the 1930s by various rail companies and rubber-tyre manufacturer Michelin. Some Michelines were built in the United States by the Budd Company. Most Michelines were self-propelled, but a number of locomotive-hauled trainsets were also produced. Michelines offered unprecedented ride smoothness, but they soon proved to be problematic because the low load that the wheels could bear limited railcar sizes and demanded a high number of tyres (up to 20) per car. Furthermore, they were subject to flat tyres, unlike cars with steel wheels. Eventually, the Michelines gave way to rubber-tyred metro A rubber-tyred metro or rubber-tired metro is a form of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road transport, road and rail transport, rail technology. The vehicles have wheels with rubber tires that run on a roll way inside guide bars for tr ...s, pioneered by the RATP (Paris transit authority) which introduced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diakofto
Diakopto () is a coastal town in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reforms it is a municipal unit of the Aigialeia municipality. The municipal unit has an area of 103.932 km2. The town of Diakopto is situated on the Gulf of Corinth, near the mouth of the Vouraikos river and at the lower end of the Vouraikos Gorge. The gauge Diakofto–Kalavryta Railway built in 1885 leads up to the town of Kalavryta passing the Mega Spilaio Monastery at about halfway. Diakopto is on the old Greek National Road 8 (Athens - Corinth - Patras); the new Greek National Road 8A (also Athens - Corinth - Patras) passes 1 km to the south. Diakopto is located about 40 km east of Patras, and 15 km southeast of Aigio. Subdivisions The municipal unit Diakopto is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *Ano Diakopto (Ano Diakopto, Pounta) *Diakopto (Diakopto, Kalyvitis, Kernitsa, Lofos) *Eliki (Eliki, Kalanteri) * Katholiko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chemin De Fer Djibouto-éthiopien
Chemin or Le Chemin may refer to: Arts and media * ''Le Chemin'' (Emmanuel Moire album), 2013 album by French singer Emmanuel Moire * ''Le Chemin'' (Kyo album), 2003 album by French band Kyo ** "Le Chemin" (song), title song from same-titled Kyo album Places * Chemin, Jura, France * Chemin, Valais, Switzerland * Le Chemin, France, commune in the Marne department in the Champagne-Ardenne region in north-eastern France People with surname Chemin * Ariane Chemin (born 1962), French journalist * Jean-Yves Chemin (born 1959), French mathematician Other uses *CheMin Chemin or Le Chemin may refer to: Arts and media * ''Le Chemin'' (Emmanuel Moire album), 2013 album by French singer Emmanuel Moire * ''Le Chemin'' (Kyo album), 2003 album by French band Kyo ** "Le Chemin" (song), title song from same-titled Kyo a ..., short for Chemistry and Mineralogy, an instrument located in the interior of the Curiosity rover, that is exploring the surface of Gale crater on Mars See also * Chemin de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tramways D'Ille-et-Vilaine
Tramway may refer to: * Tramway (industrial), a lightly laid railway for uses such as logging or mining * A tram transport system (public transport vehicles running on rails) ** The tracks which trams run on (also a section of reserved track for trams) * Aerial tramway * Tramway, North Carolina, locality in the United States *Tramway (arts centre) Tramway is a contemporary visual and performing arts venue located in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Based in a former tram depot in the Pollokshields area of the South Side, it consists of two performance spaces and two galleries, as well as o ..., for visual and performing arts in Glasgow, Scotland * ''Tramway'' (film), a short film by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
