Société des Chemins de fer du Cambrésis

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Caudry-Nord station, 1950s

The Société des Chemins de fer du Cambrésis (CFC) (German: Cambresische Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft) is a transport company that operates from Caudry in northern France . Since 1880, the company operated an up to 135-km meter gauge - secondary web -Netz that partially had to 1960 inventory. Since then, only the road buses, which have been gradually introduced since the 1930s, have been used for passenger transport.

Caudry with the main line (dark blue) and the lines of the company (light blue)

The routes were in the north, with the exception of the 38-kilometer southern section of the Caudry – St Quentin route, which led into the Aisne .

stretch

All routes were in the north with the exception of 35 km of the Caudry – St Quentin route, which ran through the Aisne department .

route length Installation closure comment
Cambrai-Caudry Camb.-Catillon 36 km August 15, 1881 b.Le Cateau; May 1, 1886 rest March 17, 1936 Pv; September 1, 1955 Gv
Caudry Camb. – St Quentin North 57 km January 1, 1887 at Walincourt;

October 10, 1887 b.Villers-O .; May 6, 1888 b.Le Catelet; April 14, 1892 b.St.Quentin Camb .; March 28, 1904 b.St.Qu.Nord

1914 Pv St.Quentin Cambr. – St.Q. Nord, 1936 Gvdto .;

March 17, 1934 Pv b. Le Catelet; 1936 Pv remainder; December 31, 1954 Gv im Dep. Aisne; September 1, 1955 Gv Rest

Caudry Camb. – Denain 28 km March 28, 1891 b.Douchy; August 25, 1891 rest October 16, 1960 Pv; December 31, 1960 Gv
Solesmes-Quiévy 7 km October 28, 1907 December 31, 1930 Pv; July 1, 1929 Gv b. Biastre; 1939 Gv rest From 1924 operational management for the Société générale des chemins de fer économiques .

history

In the First World War, during the war fallen Lok
3rd class passenger car at the beginning of the 20th century

The company was founded in 1880 by three engineers, Pierre Émile Chevalier, Pierre-Louis Rey, both from Paris , and Alfred Lambert from Cambrai . The supply area touched 15 communities with over 44,500 inhabitants. The starting point and hub was the town of Caudry , where the central workshop was also located. This is where the east-west route from Cambrai to Catillon, the first section of which was opened on August 15, 1881, and the north-south route from Denain to St. Quentin, which was essentially built between 1887 and 1892, crossed. Since 1904, a seven-kilometer connecting line around the city led from the original terminus of the small railway in St. Quentin (Cambr.B.) To the northern railway station; However, passenger trains only ran here until 1914; because most of the passengers used the city tram to continue their journey. Freight traffic remained in operation until 1936.

The east-west route was built as a steam tramway along the roads, while the north-south axis had the character of a local railway. In several places there was a connection to the network of the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord (CF du Nord), or Nordbahn for short.

The income of the small railroad was mainly generated by agricultural goods traffic, passenger traffic was secondary. During the First World War, the routes were in the combat zone and were destroyed. For this reason, the administration of the departments placed rail operations under official control after the end of the war and commissioned the Société générale des chemins de fer économiques (SE) to restore the transport links. On this occasion, a reconstruction as a standard gauge railway was considered, but ultimately not implemented.

Since April 14, 1921, the individual sections of the route gradually got underway. In 1924 the Cambresian Small Railways (CFC) were able to manage themselves again; In addition, they were given the management of the SE line to Solesmes, which branches off in Quiévy (north of Caudry). It was only opened on October 28, 1907 and reactivated on October 25, 1922 after the war. But at the end of 1930 the passenger traffic was stopped. Freight traffic between Biastre and Solesmes had already ended on July 1, 1929, while sugar beet was still transported on the remainder until the beginning of the Second World War in 1939.

In the 1930s, the retreat of rail traffic in the main network of CFC itself began because the use of railcars had not brought the hoped-for success. Passenger traffic ended on March 17, 1934 on the Cambrai – Caudry – Catillon and Caudry – Le Catelet routes and in 1936 on the subsequent southern remnant to St. Quentin.

Freight traffic survived the Second World War relatively well in the entire CFC network with the exception of small sections. On the section in the Aisne department, he was served until the end of 1954. The rest of the freight traffic ended on September 1, 1955. Only on the 28 kilometer long route from Caudry to Denain in the north, the total traffic lasted longer, namely the passenger transport until October 16, 1960, the freight transport until the end of 1960.

Vehicle fleet

Steam locomotives

Cambrai train station

The Chemins de fer du Cambrésis locomotive park consisted of three- and four-coupled tank locomotives. The most important supplier with 23 locomotives was the Parisian manufacturer Corpet-Louvet (Louis Corpet, from 1889 Veuve Corpet & L. Louvet, from 1912 Corpet-Louvet & Cie). Other manufacturers were the Societè Fives-Lille from Lille and Pinguely , each with four locomotives. Two of the locomotives were built by Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik , Jungenthal.

Construction year Manufacturer Factory no. Axis formula Locomotive no. Surname comment
1880 Corpet 315 030T 1 L'Escault
1881 Corpet 330 030T 2 La Selle
1888 Corpet 493 030T 5 Clary sold to England, now bears the name tag of FL 030T Cambrai
1890 Corpet Louvet 515 030T 6th Le Catelet
1890 Corpet Louvet 517 030T 7th Denain
1891 Corpet Louvet 518 030T 8th Quiévy
1891 Corpet Louvet 531 030T 9 St Quentin
1891 Corpet Louvet 560 030T 10 Levergies
1895 Corpet Louvet 664 030T 11 Anzin
1895 Corpet Louvet 665 030T 12 Douchy
1899 Corpet Louvet 838 030T 13 Caudry disappeared between 1914 and 1918
1899 Corpet Louvet 841 030T 14th Walincourt disappeared between 1914 and 1918
1900 Corpet Louvet 745 030T no number given
1912 Corpet Louvet 1134 030T 22nd
1936 Corpet Louvet 1455 130T 32
1936 Corpet Louvet 1452 130T 33
1943 Corpet Louvet 1866 141T 40 only temporarily, in 1947 to CF Conakry-Niger
1943 Corpet Louvet 1867 141T 41 only temporarily, in 1947 to CF Conakry-Niger
1943 Corpet Louvet 1868 141T 42 only temporarily, in 1947 to CF Conakry-Niger
1945 Corpet Louvet 778 030T 13
1948 Corpet Louvet 1924 141T 40
1948 Corpet Louvet 1925 141T 41 restored after a boiler explosion in January 1953
1948 Corpet Louvet 1926 141T 42
1927 Pinguely 356 030T 21st
1904 Pinguely 171 130T 34 1936 from Chemins de Fer Départementaux de la Côte d'Or
1904 Pinguely 172 130T 35 1936 from Chemins de Fer Départementaux de la Côte d'Or
1904 Pinguely 173 130T 36 1936 from Chemins de Fer Départementaux de la Côte d'Or
1912 Piguet 130T 30th
1917 Piguet 130T 31
1880 Fives-Lille 2410 030T 1 Cambrai
1880 Fives-Lille 2411 030T 2 Cateau
1880 Fives-Lille 2412 030T 3 Beauvois
1880 Fives-Lille 2413 030T 4th Catillon
1907 Young 040T 15th Denain-Anzin
1911 Young 040T 16 Valenciennes

literature

  • Henri Domengie and José Banaudo: Les petits trains de jadis - Volume 9: Nord de la France. Editions du Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya 1995, ISBN 2-908816-29-6
  • Léonce Bajart (1888–1983): Caudry: vu par Léonce Bajart. Publisher Les Amis du Caudrésis, Caudry 1987, OCLC 18767247 .
  • Michel Dussart: Mémoire de Cambrai. Société d'Émulation de la ville de Cambrai, 2004, ISBN 2-85845-001-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b trains-fr ( Memento from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Bulletin des lois No. 737, France, Imprimerie Royale, 1794 of May 11, 1882, pp. 1162f.
  3. ↑ private homepage for the northern railways

Web links

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