Société générale des chemins de fer économiques

Narrow-gauge train of the SE (Réseau du Nord) in Mailly-Maillet station in the Somme department

The company's route network in the Gironde department and other routes in the mid-1920s

The Société générale des chemins de fer économiques (SE) (German: Allgemeine Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft) was the largest company in France , which dealt with the construction and operation of branch, small and trams.

The company was founded on February 12, 1880 and built standard and meter gauge railways in numerous regions of France. At the beginning of the 1930s, the length of their rail network was around 3000 kilometers, plus around 650 kilometers of higher-order railways. Despite the decade-long restriction of passenger and freight traffic by rail, society is still an important mode of transport today; however, numerous bus routes are also operated. That is why the company has been operating as Société générale des chemins de fer et de transport automobile (SGCFTA) since 1963 . After the 1966 merger with the Companie des chemins de fer secondaires et transports automobiles (CFSTA), the CFTA became part of the VEOLIA group .

Operated routes

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The following list is not complete; the SE operated many more routes, see e.g. B. List in French: Société générale des chemins de fer économiques

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• Chemins de fer économiques de la Gironde
  • Saint Symphorien – Lesparre railway line (141 km), opened in 1884, closed in 1954–1978
  • Nizan – Luxey railway line (39 km), commissioned between 1873 and 1886, closed in 1951 and 1970
  • Bruges – Lacanau-Océan railway (55 km), opened in 1885–1978, closed in 1905 and 1962
  • Railway line St. André-de-Cubzac – St. Ciers-sur-Gironde (52 km), opened in 1888/89, closed in 1954 and 1970
  • Benauge – Carmasac railway line (16 km), built in 1900, handed over to the Compagnie des Tramways électrique et Omnibus de Bordeaux (TEOB) in 1949
• Réseau du Nord (SE)
• Réseau de Seine-et-Marne (SE)
  • Verneuil-l'Étang – Melun tram (18.4 km), opened in 1901, closed in 1949
  • Jouy-le-Châtel – Sablonnières railway (37 km), opened in 1903
  • Jouy-le-Châtel – Marles-en-Brie railway line (24 km), opened in 1902
  • Jouy-le-Châtel – Bray-sur-Seine railway (51 km), opened in 1904

literature

• Henri Domengie / 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