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List Of Decauville Railways
The following is a list of Decauville railways. * Decauville railway at Exposition Universelle (1889) * Decauville railway Tianjin – Jinnan * Decauville Railway of the Cobazet Estate * Decauville railway Vigía Chico-Santa Cruz * Decauville railway of the Watissart quarries * Decauville Railway of the Bancalari Mill * Decauville railway at Diégo Suarez * Soignes Forest Railway * Sousse–Kairouan Decauville railway * Decauville railway Narès–Inglis–Topçin–Vatiluk * Naphtha Hill Decauville Railway * Kodza Déré Decauville Railway * Decauville Tramway at Exposition Universelle in Gent, 1913 * Bathurst Decauville Tramway * Beverloo Camp Railway * Benjamin Constant railway * Rufisque tramway * Ocampo Railway * Tramway of Quend-Plage and Fort-Mahon * Rainforest Ecological Train * Elsenborn Camp Railway * Société Coloniale des Chaux et Ciments de Portland de Marseille * Tehran–Rey Railway * Vittorio di Africa * Decauville railway at Láchar * Narrow-gauge railways in Lux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Decauville Railway
Decauville () was a manufacturing company which was founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922), a French pioneer in industrial railways. Decauville's major innovation was the use of ready-made sections of light, narrow-gauge track fastened to steel sleepers; this track was portable and could be disassembled and transported very easily. The first Decauville railway used gauge; Decauville later refined his invention and switched to and gauge. History Origins In 1853 Paul Decauville's father, Amand, created a boilermaking workshop on the family farm in order to set up distilleries on the farms to the east of Paris. In 1864, Amand asked his eldest son, Paul, to come and help him following health problems. Very quickly, the latter seeks to improve the functioning of the estate. Very developed under the Second Empire in the northern half of France, the production of sugar beet and its refining into sugar, is linked to that of alcoholic products such as fuel. Amand will therefore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rufisque Tramway
The Rufisque tramway (French ''Le Decauville Municipal de Rufisque'') was a long, hand-operated light railway with track gauges of and in Rufisque in Senegal. History Around 1860, at least around and in 1867 around of unpeeled peanuts were shipped in the port of Rufisque, which were brought there by camel.Roger Pasquier''Villes du Sénégal au XIXe siècle.''1960. p. 405, 413, 420 & 423. p. 405 According to more recent estimates, this figure could have been more than by 1880. In order to simplify transport, the first manually operated Decauville Railway was laid in the city around 1880.Abdoulaye Gaye''Valorisation du patrimoine industriel de la ville de Rufisque, sauvegarde et transmission : quel impact sur le développement local ? Le cas de l’ex usine Bata – Valuation of the industrial heritage of the city of Rufisque, backup and transmission: what impact on local development? The case of the former Bata factory.''2013/14. p. 98. Initially, individual peanut trading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Spalding Railway
The Spalding railway was a German narrow gauge railway system invented, patented and developed by Heinrich Andreas Spalding in 1884 for forestry and agriculture applications. It was similar to the Decauville railway, which had been invented and patented in France eight years earlier. History The entrepreneur Heinrich Spalding from Glewitz in Western Pomerania was the first German industrialist, who produced in 1884 a narrow-gauge tramway at his own risk for the transport of logs and firewood in the royal Prussian forest Grimnitz in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The implementation this tramway between two felling sites and the nearest navigable water at Lake Werbellin, resulted in cost savings of 11,387 marks during the transport of 8,536 m3 of pine and firewood over an average distance of . The costs for providing the tramway amounted to 47,000 Marks, so that the railway system should have paid off in four years. The German Emperor William I, the patron of German hunting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Réau
Réau () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Ferme de Galande Around 1881, sugar beet producer Arthur Brandin invested in a Decauville railway with eight horse-drawn tipping lorries for the Ferme de Galande near Réau, 15 km east of the Decauville factory in Petit Bourg. As well as being a sugar beet farmer, he was also mayor of Réau and Republican Consul of the Canton of Brie-Comte-Robert from 1895 to 1912. The surface soil of his sugar beet fields consisted of clay in which fragments of siliceous sandstone were embedded, used for millstones and structural purposes. The subsoil was limestone, so the fields were often very muddy at harvest time until Brandin installed an innovatively designed drainage system.G. Wery and E. Rislerpage ''Irrigations et drainages: l'eau dans les améliorations agricoles,''p. 106 and 409. Demographics The inhabitants are called ''Réaltais''. See also *Communes of the Seine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Narrow-gauge Railways In The Netherlands
Numerous industrial narrow-gauge lines were built for peat extraction, clay extraction for brickworks and construction sites. The dominant gauge for industrial lines was , contrary to the gauge used in neighbouring countries. Nowadays, much of this industrial rail heritage is preserved in museums or in theme parks, such as the Efteling Steam Train Company. The majority of the Dutch narrow-gauge railways were built as Tram#Steam, steam tram networks, predominantly with and track gauge. Tram * Geldersch-Westfaalsche Stoomtram-Maatschappij; * Geldersche Stoomtramweg Maatschappij; * Rotterdamse Tramweg Maatschappij; * Stoomtram Walcheren; * Tramweg Maatschappij De Graafschap; * Tramweg Maatschappij Zutphen-Emmerik; * Tramweg Onderneming Gouda-Bodegraven; Narrow-gauge heritage railways * Amsteltrein; , 3,7 km, park railway * Decauville Spoorweg Museum (Permanently closed in 2014)); 1,2 km and running line and , , , , , , , , , and collection, mainly focused on (Decauvil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Euville Light Railways
The Euville light railways (French: ''Réseaux des carrières Civet-Pommier & Cie et Fèvre & Cie'') were an approximately long light railway with a track gauge and a narrow gauge with gauge of near Euville in the département Meuse in the Grand Est region of France (until 2015 Lorraine). Operation The so-called ''Tacot'' with a gauge of 1000 mm connected the quarries near Euville with a quai at the ''Canal de l'Est'' (today '' Canal de la Meuse'') and the standard gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), international gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge in Europe, and SGR in East Africa. It is the ... railway station at Sorcy. Workers, animals and a Decauville steam locomotive were used to push and pull the 600 mm gauge V-tip waggons in the quarries. References {{coord, 48.7700902, 5.646414, region:FR_type:building, display=title 600 mm g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Narrow-gauge Railways In Luxembourg
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structure gauges, and lighter rails; they can be less costly to build, equip, and operate than standard- or broad-gauge railways (particularly in mountainous or difficult terrain). Lower-cost narrow-gauge railways are often used in mountainous terrain, where engineering savings can be substantial. Lower-cost narrow-gauge railways are often built to serve industries as well as sparsely populated communities where the traffic potential would not justify the cost of a standard- or broad-gauge line. Narrow-gauge railways have specialised use in mines and other environments where a small structure gauge necessitates a small loading gauge. In some countries, narrow gauge is the standard: Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, New Zealand, South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Decauville Railway At Láchar
The Decauville railway at Láchar was an long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of from Íllora- Láchar railway station via the Eiffel Bridge to the sugar mill in Láchar. Route The long Decauville railway with rails weighing 9,5 kg/m (19 lbs/yard) ran over two metal bridges, of which one was designed Gustave Eiffel and erected by Fives-Lille.Carlos Peña und Pachi Calvo''El ferrocarril de la azucerera de Láchar.''10 May 2008. The track on the site of the sugar mill was long. It ended at a turntable at the western end of the site.Pedro Salmeron Escobar''Lachar. Fábrica del Conde de Benalúa.''In: ''Estudio del paisaje de la industria azucarera de la Vega de Granada.'' October 2016, p. 109–123. History Growing sugar beets and producing sugar from them caused a major structural change in the Vega de Granada at the end of the 19th century.Pedro Salmerón Escobar, Fermín Seño Asencio, Rosa María Pérez de la Torre und Diego Garzón OsunaDiego Garzón Osuna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vittorio Di Africa
Vittorio di Africa (originally called "Vittorio d'Affrica" or simply "Vittorio") was a small town in southern Italian Somalia, created by Italian colonists in the late 1920s near the southern Shebelle river. History The Genale dam on the river Shebelle, together with an extensive network of canals, was built in the south of Somalia in the late 1920s. It was strongly promoted by Cesare Maria De Vecchi -Italian governor of Italian Somalia from 1924 to 1928- in order to provide water for irrigation of a vast territory of 20000 hectares between Genale, Merca and Vittorio d'Africa, to be given in concession to Italian colonists. One hundred of those colonists created in the south of the Genale concessions (called in Italian ''Concessioni agricole'') a small city named "Vittorio d'Africa", that had a population of nearly 1200 inhabitants in 1940. It was located 11 km from Merca. The city was linked to the Port of Merca by a decauville railway, used to transport the huge pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tehran–Rey Railway
The narrow-gauge railway Tehran – Ray, Iran, Rey, which started its operation in 1888, is Iran's first railway line. Initially planned as a horse-drawn railway, it was operated as the Decauville railway with steam locomotives. Railway operations were stopped in 1962. Today Tehran Metro Line 1, a metro line connects Tehran with Rey. Horse-drawn tram In January 1859 a Persian delegation travelled to Vienna on behalf of Naser al-Din Shah to conclude a consular treaty between Tehran and Vienna and to recruit talented craftsmen and engineers for the industrialization of Persia. Prime Minister Amir Kabir had started his reform and industrialization program and founded Dar ul-Funun (Persia), Dar o-Fonun in 1851, the first technical university in Iran based on the western model. The Austro-Hungarian railway engineer, Albert Joseph Gasteiger, Freiherr von Ravenstein and Kobach, was approached and enthusiastically accepted the order to build a railway in Persia. He learned Persia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Société Coloniale Des Chaux Et Ciments De Portland De Marseille
The Société Coloniale des Chaux et Ciments de Portland de Marseille (Colonial Company for Lime and Portland Cements in Marseille) owned and operated cement works in L'Estaque near Marseille in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône. History The joint-stock company was founded on 20 November 1913 with a share capital of 4 million francs for a period of 50 years. The initial capital was increased to 2.5 mio francs in 1919, to 4.25 mio francs in April 1923 and to 5 mio francs in May 1929. Messrs M. Siegfried, A. Cailler, J. Lindenmeyer, G. Bonnet, P. Bourcart, H. Gunthert, G. Roussy and M. Obellianne were appointed to the Board of Directors. Purpose of the Company The objectives of the company were as follows: #Manufacture, sale and export of lime, cement and hydraulic products. #Acquisition, lease, development and operation of lime and cement quarries in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône or in another region, in particular the quarries in La Nerthe. #Acquisition, const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Elsenborn Camp Railway
The Elsenborn Camp Railway was a long gauge railway line which connected the Elsenborn Camp near Elsenborn with Sourbrodt railway station on the standard gauge Vennbahn in Belgium from 1901 to 1939. History The track was laid in 1900 and inaugurated in 1901. Since 1918 German 0-8-0 brigade steam locomotives of the Heeresfeldbahn were used on the line. The railway was subsequently nicknamed ''Elijah's Chariot of Fire'' (''Feuriger Elias'') and used for goods and passenger trains. Reverend Pietkin was not amused by the increasing alcohol consumption and prostitution around the railway station, when he warned from the pulpit about the railway's curse with the aphorism: "C'est le chemin de l'enfer!" ("This is railway to hell!") The transport unit employed about 70 civilians, most of whom were recruited from the surrounding population. It was moved to the Bressoux Bressoux (; ) is a sub-municipality of the city of Liège located in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
