Soulé (company)
Soule is a French manufacturer of rail vehicles . The company, based in Bagnères-de-Bigorre , was family-owned for a long time. In 1992, the rail vehicle construction was taken over by the Compagnie de chemins de fer départementaux and continued under the name Constructions ferroviaires de Bagnères , later CFD Bagnères . The plant has been part of the Spanish CAF group since 2010 .
history
The company was founded in 1862 and initially produced sheet metal products in a small workshop. From 1913, a joinery was added that built wooden car bodies for tram vehicles. With this, the company started building railways and later also manufactured vehicles made of metal. It was a manufacturer of diesel railcars that run on narrow-gauge routes in France, but also built vehicles for African countries and the regular- gauge Breton network .
Vehicles (selection)
- 1984 a railcar with a control car (for the former Alpazur train connection ): The one-off with the road number X 351 and the associated control car XR 1351 was created in cooperation with the mechanical workshops Garnéro in Carros , it was with a Poyaud diesel engine and a Voith gearbox fitted.
- Four double railcars from the AMP 800 series
- Corsica ( Chemins de fer de la Corse ): seven class X 97050 multiple units, delivered in 1989 (five vehicles) and 1997 (two vehicles); from 2009 twelve double railcars of the AMG 800 series
- Bretagne ( Chemins de fer et transport automobile (CFTA); Carhaix - Paimpol route ): Three standard-gauge A2E (autorail à deux essieux; X 97150 series) from 1990
- Togo ( CFT ): Autorail D 3001
- Bénin and Niger ( CBN ): ZE 133 and ZE 135
- Tunisia ( Société nationale des chemins de fer tunisiens ): Ten double multiple units of the AMG 800 series
- Gabon ( OCTRA ): Railcar ZE 401
Under the direction of CAF, 18 out of 19 low-floor tram cars of the Urbos 3 type were built for the Besançon tram . In 2014, CAF France received the order for the overhaul of 36 vehicles for Métro Lyon ; they will be overhauled at the Bagnères-de-Bigorre plant. The 16 new railcars for the Saint-Étienne tram are also being built in Bagnères-de-Bigorre.
Bastia depot (Corsica): on the right an X 97050
AMG 800 in Ajaccio (Corsica)
Urbos 3 on the Besançon tram
Individual evidence
- ^ The locomotives of the Chemins de fer de Provence at le-rail.ch, accessed on December 29, 2017
- ↑ ET Honey: Réseaux ferrés de l'ouest africain, Röhr Verlag, p. 48
- ↑ ET Honey: Réseaux Ferrés de l'ouest africain, Rohr Verlag, p 65 u. 66
- ↑ ET Honey: Réseaux Ferrés de l'ouest africain, Rohr Verlag, pp 118
- ↑ Bagnères-de-Bigorre: CAF France fabriquera les nouveaux tramways de Saint-Etienne at france3-regions of December 11, 2014, accessed on November 6, 2016
- ↑ CAF, établi à Bagnères-de-Bigorre, livre les premières rames du métro de Lyon at france3-regions from September 14, 2016, accessed on November 6, 2016
- ↑ Mobilicites of July 4, 2016: CAF livre sa première rame à Saint-Étienne at mobilicites.com, accessed on November 6, 2016