Decauville Railway of the International Exhibition in Lyon 1914

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Decauville Railway of the International Exhibition in Lyon 1914
Lyon - Exposition Internationale 1914 - Le Tramway Decauville de l'Exposition
Lyon - Exposition Internationale 1914 -
Le Tramway Decauville de l'Exposition
Gauge : 600 mm ( narrow gauge )

The Decauville train the International Exhibition in Lyon in 1914 ( French Le Tramway Decauville de l'Exposition Internationale 1914 ) was a Decauville - narrow-gauge railway with a track width mm from 600 in 1914 during the International Exhibition in Lyon was operated.

history

In 1914, for the third and last time, an international exhibition focused on hygiene and urbanism was held in Lyon. The curator of the exhibition was Jules Courmont , a doctor and professor at the Medical School of Lyon. The architect of the exhibition site was Tony Garnier .

The exhibition was opened to the public on May 1, 1914 and officially opened on May 12, 1914 by the Minister of Commerce, Raoul Péret, in the presence of Édouard Herriot . After Germany declared war on France on August 3, the exhibition stayed open, but visitor numbers fell because most of the civil long-distance trains were no longer running. The exhibition ended on November 11, 1914 after attracting over a million visitors.

Route

Halle Tony Garnier, 1914

The exhibition took place mainly in Lyon's Gerland district in the Halle Tony Garnier and on the site of what is now the École normal supérieure de Lyon , but the main entrance was at the southern end of the Presqu'île peninsula , where there was also an Alpine village .

The route of the train, which runs internally on the exhibition grounds, ran in a loop on the exhibition grounds on the left bank of the Rhone with a junction to Avenue de Saxe in front of the German Pavilion.

business

The operation was carried out with Decauville accumulator locomotives of the type Boîte à Sel ( salt box ) and open passenger cars of the type Baladeuses .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Exposition Internationale Urbaine de Lyon 1914. February 28, 2014.

Coordinates: 45 ° 43 ′ 47.6 "  N , 4 ° 49 ′ 29.8"  E