Steam tram from Quend-Plage and Fort-Mahon
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 Decauville summer car type KE ( Expo 1889 )
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 Fort-Mahon-Plage train station
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| Route length: | 12.8 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 40 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 30 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The steam tram from Quend-Plage and Fort-Mahon ( French Le tramway du Marquenterre or Le tramway de Quend-Plage et Fort-Mahon ) was a nearly 12.8 kilometer long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm, the 1898-1914 and 1921 –1934 was operated.
history
The Société Immobilière de Saint-Quentin-Plage initiated the construction of the 8 km long narrow-gauge steam tram from the standard-gauge station Quend-Fort-Mahon to Quend-Plage (formerly Saint-Quentin-Plage). It was put into operation in 1898. In 1903 a 4.8 km long branch line was moved to Fort-Mahon-Plage . The journey from Quend-Fort-Mahon to Quend-Plage took 30 minutes and to Fort-Mahon-Plage 40 minutes.
In 1914 the flying track with a meter weight of 9.5 to 15 kg / m was dismantled for military use and relocated in 1919. Traffic was resumed on July 13, 1921. The railway was in operation until May 1932 and was formally shut down on February 26, 1934.
Rail vehicles
Locomotives
| Surname | Wheel alignment | Manufacturer | Serial number | Construction year | Weight | Remarks |
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| Jeanette | 0-4-0T | Decauville | N ° 230 | 1898 | 5 t |
 First class 3, purchased used from Coulange & Tayart |
| Bienvenue | 0-4-2T | Decauville | N ° 279 | 1899 | 7.2 t |
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| 0-4-0T | Decauville | N ° 616 | 1910 |
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| minus | 0-6-2T | Borsig / Decauville | N ° 7966 | 1910 | 10 t |
 Delivered in April 1911 |
| Marie-Antoinette | 0-4-0T | Orenstein & Koppel |
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Initially there were two open-sided Decauville summer cars , one closed Decauville saloon car and three tipping lorries .
Web links
- Stephen Ramsey: Les Tramways de Quend et de Fort Mahon (French)
Remarks
- ^ The Société Immobilière de Saint-Quentin-Plage was founded around 1893 by Félix Martin under the name Goutelon et Compagnie in Paris. It was transformed on August 27, 1896 into the Société Anonyme de Quend-Plage , a joint-stock company with a capital of 700,000 francs, with its registered office at 47 rue Taitbout in Paris. Félix Martin and Goutelon were its main shareholders. The company's first sub-project included the creation of a plan for 636 rectangular plots with a front width of 14 meters and an area of 376.26 square meters. This plan, with a church in the center, was not implemented. Between 1898 and 1901, the Hotel Bellevue was built for the Société Anonyme de Quend-Plage .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Reden: The railways of France: Statistical-historical representation of their formation, their relationship to the state authority, as well as their administrative and operational facilities. Mittler, 1846. page 197.
- ↑ La station balnéaire de Quend-Plage: Historique.
- ↑ a b Stephen Ramsay: Les Tramways de Quend et de Fort-Mahon. 2016.
- ^ David Matthewson: The Tramways of the Marquenterre: The Route.
- ↑ Eric Fresné: Les Forums de Passions Métrique et Etroite: Quend Fort Mahon.
- ^ David Matthewson: The Tramways of the Marquenterre: The Locos.
- ↑ Les 030T Decauville de 1910.
- ↑ Loco-Revue, N ° 17, September 1938.
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 5.2 " N , 1 ° 35 ′ 44.5" E