Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre

Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre P'tit Train de la Haute Somme
0-6-0 WT Decauville steam locomotive
Route 2008
Route length:	7 km
Gauge :	600 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend 0.00 Froissy Froissy Railway Museum 1.80 Cappy Cappy's tunnel Le Z ( hairpin ) 4.60 Santerre plateau 7:00 Dompierre

The narrow-gauge railway Froissy-Dompierre ( French : Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre (CFCD) or P'tit Train de la Haute Somme ) is a 7 km long small railway with a gauge of 600 mm from Froissy (a district of La Neuville-lès -Bray ) to Dompierre-Becquincourt , through Cappy in the Somme department in France.

history

Route 1923

The French army built the narrow-gauge railway along the Canal de la Somme in 1915 during the First World War . It was on the front line and was used by the military from 1916 to 1918 to transport 1,500 tons of goods per day. In Froissy she met the Réseau Albert with meter gauge, which in turn was connected to the CFCD.

In the post-war period, the railway was used for reconstruction and food transport. A new section of the route including a hairpin led to the Santerre chalk plateau . The railway mainly transported sugar beets to the sugar factory in Dompierre. A bypass built around the port of Cappy in 1927 required the construction of a tunnel.

The railway line was extended to Chaulnes in 1931 . It survived the Second World War almost undamaged, but a Molasse train was attacked by British bombers. The extensions to Péronne and Chaulnes were taken out of service in 1954, and the rest of the line closed in 1972, at a time when the museum railroad was already operational.

Museum railway

The museum railway is now operated by the APPEVA ( Association Picarde pour la Préservation et l'Entretien des Véhicules Anciens ), founded in 1970, and is known as the P'tit Train de la Haute Somme . It is the last still in operation 600 mm narrow-gauge railway of the trenches of the First World War.

The first APPEVA train ran in June 1971 between Cappy and Froissy over a distance of 1 km. The line was extended to the top of the hairpin in 1974 and to Dompierre in 1976 after the level crossing on the Santerre plateau had been completed. The opening of the museum in Froissy took place in 1996.

Rail vehicles

Steam locomotives

No.	Surname	Manufacturer	Wheel alignment	power	Serial no.	Construction year	origin	Remarks	photo
1		Henschel	0-4-0 T					Henschel N ° 23735 from 1937
2		Neumeyer	0-4-0 T					Neumeyer N ° 19 from 1922
3		Decauville	0-6-0 T	50 hp	1825	1928	Port de Bordeaux	Decauville N ° 1825 from 1928, type Progrès
4th		Krauss	0-8-0 T	70 hp	7373	1917	German Army	Type DFB. Operated till end of 2007.
5		Decauville	0-6-0 WT	50 hp	1652	1916	Ex-Réseau Nord-Est (Reims)	Type 17. In working order.
7th	Geneviève	Borsig	0-8-0 TT	50 hp	10334	1918	Poland	Type DFB. In working order.
8th		Vulcan , Szczecin	0-8-0 T	150-180 hp	3852	1925	Formerly Deutsche Reichsbahn No. 99 3461, before that Mecklenburg-Pommersche Bahn No. 9.	Prototype.
9		Alco-Cooke	0-4-2 T					RL 1257, N ° 57148 from 1916
10		Franco Belge	0-8-0 TT	250-300 hp	2836	1945	Formerly Sucreries Ternynck, Coucy-le-Château and TPT No. 4-14.	Type KDL ( war steam locomotive ). Operational
11		Orenstein & Koppel	0-6-0 T	about 100 hp	8083	1915	formerly TPT No. 3-6.
12		Orenstein & Koppel	0-10-0 T	about 195 hp	8285	1917	formerly TPT No. 5-3.
13		Orenstein & Koppel	0-8-0 T DFB	70 hp	8627	1918	Formerly Sucreries Coucy-le-Château	Type DFB. On loan from AMTUIR

Diesel locomotives

No.	Surname	Manufacturer	Wheel alignment	power	serial number	Construction year	origin	Remarks	photo
T23		Plymouth		70 hp	5117	1946		Tractor. One of the original CFCD locomotives.
T24	Tatra Mountains	Société de Construction Ferroviaires et Navales (Coferna)		200 hp	122	1941		Diesel locomotive with a 212 HP air-cooled Tatra engine. One of the original CFCD locomotives. Operational.
T25	Iveco	Coferna		180 hp	123	1941		Diesel locomotive with a 180 HP water-cooled Iveco engine. One of the original CFCD locomotives. Operational.
T31		Établissements billiards		100 hp	233 T75 G	1958		Diesel locomotive. Operational.
T32	simplex	Motor Rail Ltd		40 hp	588/191	1917		tractor
T37	simplex	Motor Rail Ltd		20 hp	7433	1939		Tractor. Operational.
T33		Baldwin	0-4-0  D	50 hp	49192	1917		tractor
T36		Baldwin		50 hp	49966	1917		tractor
T29		Socofer		40 hp	333 SCF 303	1968		Tractor. Operational.
	Speeder	Fairbanks-Morse				1917		Draisine

dare

The CFCD has several open or closed freight and passenger wagons, the chassis of which date from the time of the First World War, as well as more modern freight wagons.

Web links

Commons : Froissy Dompierre Light Railway  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• APPEVA, official website
• photos

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} John Organ: Northern France Narrow Gauge . Middleton Press, Midhurst 2002, ISBN 1-901706-75-3 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 24 "  N , 2 ° 43 ′ 45"  E