Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury

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Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury
Outarville
Outarville
Route of the Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury
Route, 1928
Route length: 30.613 km
Gauge : 600 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
               
Railway line Étampes – Beaune to Beaune
               
Orléans – Malesherbes line to Les Aubrais
               
0 Pithiviers
               
               
Orléans – Malesherbes line to Malesherbes
               
Railway line Étampes – Beaune to Étampes
               
RD 928
               
3.5 Ormes
               
               
Musée des transports de Pithiviers
               
               
Bitry
               
7th Guigneville
               
Torville
               
Grigneville - Guignonville
               
Guignonville
               
Châtillon-le-Roi
               
Beauclair
               
Izy
               
Bazoches-les-Gallerandes
               
La Tour
               
La Brière
               
               
Landreville
               
Charmont-en-Beauce
               
Autruy
               
Gueudreville
               
Erceville
               
25th Outarville
               
Arconville
               
Brandelon
               
Sucrerie de Toury
               
Railway line Paris – Toulouse to Paris-Austerlitz
               
31 Toury
               
Paris – Toulouse line to Orléans

The Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury (TPT) was a nearly 31 km long field railway with 600 mm gauge from Pithiviers to Toury in France, of which 3.5 km are still operated today as a museum railway. The Decauville company built it in 1892, among other things to increase the efficiency of its flying track , i.e. H. from transportable track yokes , built narrow-gauge railways .

history

Bazoches-les-Gallerandes
Grigneville

The Paris – Toulouse railway line of the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans led through Toury. It was recognized that an easy and inexpensive to lay field railway would be advantageous to connect Pithiviers and the surrounding villages with Toury. The system developed shortly before by Paul Decauville seemed suitable, and so the Société Decauville was granted a 15-year concession to build and operate the system.

The main line was opened on July 25, 1892 and had a length of exactly 30.620 km when it opened. She served several branch lines. It was originally planned to also extend the route at Toury to 31.267 km to create a connection to Janville .

Initially, the light railroad was primarily used to transport sugar beets, which were and are an important agricultural product in the region. There was a sugar refinery in Pithiviers and Toury, and the field railway connected them with each other and with the surrounding fields. The route of the railroad generally followed the public roads. The financial failure of the Société Decauville meant that the operation of the Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury was taken over temporarily by the department on January 1, 1899 and on March 29, 1901 in the Ponts et Chaussees.

Passenger traffic increased steadily until the Second World War. One railcar entered service in 1922, another followed in 1926, followed by two more vehicles acquired second-hand in 1937 by the Chemins de Fer du Calvados . After the war, traffic decreased due to better roads in the area and the increase in private vehicle traffic. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1951, but freight traffic ran until December 31, 1964, with one last enthusiast special trip taking place on May 22, 1965. However, this should not be the end of the Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury .

Museum train

Blanc-Misseron locomotive TPT 3-5 at the Musée des transports de Pithiviers

The Association du Musée des Transports de Pithiviers (AMTP) was created to maintain at least part of the route. Pithiviers was chosen as the location because the depot and workshops were already there. The 3.5 kilometers of the tram line to Ormes was reopened on April 23, 1966 as a museum railway and an extension of 0.5 kilometers to Bellébat , which was built to further remove the terminus from the busy road.

Rail vehicles

The following rail vehicles were used on the Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury :

Unnumbered steam locomotives

  • Outarville , Weidknecht 0-4-2T (574/1892), and later in Lutece renamed
  • Outarville (2) , Decauville 0-4-2T (184/93)
  • Bazoches , Decauville 0-4-2T (176/1893)
  • Outarville , Decauville 0-4-2T (189/1893)
  • Torville , Decauville 0-6-2T (393/1903)
  • Izy , Decauville 0-6-2T built (476/1907)

TPT-numbered steam locomotives

The TPT had a unique numbering system for their locomotives. The first number indicated the number of axles powered, and the second number indicated the number of each locomotive within that classification.

  • 2-1 Decauville 0-4-2 T (189/94), Ormes
  • 2-2 Decauville 0-4-2 T (184/93), Outarville
  • 3-1 Decauville 0-6-0 T (393/03), Torville
  • 3-2 Decauville 0-6-0T (476/08), Izy
  • 3-3 Decauville 0-6-0T (592/10), Brandelon
  • 3-4 Decauville 0-6-0T (built in 1901), Decauville
  • 3-5 Blanc-Misseron 0-6-0T (built in 1902).
  • 3-6 Hunslet 4-6-0 T (1274/1917), formerly War Department No. 362, procured in 1927, numbered 3-6 in 1930, and renumbered 3-11 in 1934
  • 3-6 (2) Orenstein & Koppel , 0-6-0T, (8083/15) at the Chemin de fer Froissy Dompierre- received
  • 3-10 Hunslet 4-6-0T (1238/1916), formerly War Department No. 328 and Société de Pithiviers le Vieil , came to TPT in 1933 and Râperie de Lécluse in 1947 and to Société Anonyme des Chemins de Fer à Voie de 60 du Pas de Calais in Vis-en-Artois in 1958, scrapped in 1958
  • 3-11 Hunslet 4-6-0T, WD 362, later TPT No. 3-6, scrapped in Pithiviers in 1957
  • 3-20 ALCO 2-6-2 T (57148/16), WD 1257, obtained from Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre.
  • 3-21 ALCO 2-6-2T (57092/16), WD 1201
  • 3-22 ALCO 2-6-2T (57131/16), WD 1240, obtained from the AMTP
  • 3-23 ALCO 2-6-2T (57156/16), WD 1265, received from the Ffestiniog Railway as a Mountaineer
  • 4-1 0-8-0 Humboldt , DFB 883
  • 4-2 0-8-0 Schwartzkopff , DFB 1986
  • 4-3 0-8-0 Henschel , DFB 1746
  • 4-4 0-8-0 Krauss , DFB 2031
  • 4-5 0-8-0 Henschel, DFB 1531
  • 4-10 Franco-Belge (2839/44) 0-8-0 , converted from the TPT into a 0-8-0T
  • 4-11 Franco-Belge (2838/44) 0-8-0, converted from the TPT into a 0-8-0T
  • 4-12 Franco-Belge (2843/44) 0-8-0, converted from the TPT into a 0-8-0T, preserved in the AMTP
  • 4-13 Franco-Belge (2844/44) 0-8-0, converted from the TPT into a 0-8-0T, received from Arvo
  • 4-14 Franco-Belge (2836/44) 0-8-0, formerly Sucrerie Ternynck in Coucy-le-Château as a spare parts donor, now at Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre
  • 4-15 Franco-Belge (2825/44) 0-8-0, formerly Sucrerie Ternynck in Coucy-le-Château as a spare parts donor
  • 5-1 Borsig 0-10-0 T
  • 5-2 Schwartzkopff 0-10-0T
  • 5-3 Orenstein & Koppel 0-10-0T (8285/1917), formerly Sucrerie Pithiviers le Vieil , obtained from Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre

Mallets

Rail buses

The TPT had four rail buses .

Preserved locomotives

TPT number Surname Wheel alignment Manufacturer Construction year power serial number photo status owner Remarks
3-5 Le Minihic C 2nt Blanc-Misseron 1902 90 hp 282 Blanc-Misseron 030T n ° 5 de l'AMTP Displayed AMTP ex Tramway Paramé-Rothéneuf
monument protection class MH since 1992
3-6 C 2nt Orenstein & Koppel 1915 140 hp 8083 Displayed APPEVA Is being restored
3-20 1'C1 'nt Alco-Cooke 1916 120 hp 57148 Is being restored Tacot des Lacs War Department Railways
Monument Protection Class MH since 1987
3-22 1'C1 'nt Alco-Cooke 1916 120 hp 57131 Alco-Cooke 131T n ° 22 de l'AMTP Displayed AMTP War Department Railways
Monument Protection Class MH 1992
3-23 Mountaineer 1'C1 'nt Alco-Cooke 1917 120 hp 57156 Locomotive Mountaineer à Tan-y-Bwlch Operational Ffestiniog Railway War Department Railways
4-12 Pithiviers B 2nt Franco Belge 1945 250/300 hp 2843 Franco-Belge 040T n ° 12 de l'AMTP In need of renovation AMTP
Class MH war steam locomotive since 1992
4-13 B 2nt Franco Belge 1945 250/300 hp 2844 In need of renovation APEMVE War steam locomotive
4-14 B 2nt Franco Belge 1945 250/300 hp 2836 Franco-Belge 040T n ° 10 de l'APPEVA Operational APPEVA
Class MH war steam locomotive since 1987
5-3 E 2nt Orenstein & Koppel 1917 195 hp 8285 / HT 2085 050 T Orenstein & Koppel N ° 12 de l'APPEVA Displayed APPEVA Is being restored
22-5 Le Loiret B'B n4vt Orenstein & Koppel 1905 1769 Is being renovated CFT-HR Monument protection class MH since 1999
Suzanne C 2nt Decauville 1915 1589 AMTP Formerly Sucrerie de Toury
AT1 B 2nt Crochat 1922 / Crochat 020 n ° AT1 de l'AMTP Operational AMTP Gasoline-electric automotrice
listed as MH class since 1996
AT3 B 2nt Decauville-Crochat 1926 Operational STTST Gasoline-electric automotrice

Passenger cars

Six Decauville type IS bogie passenger cars were delivered before the line opened. Five were rebuilt in 1931-1939 (No. V1 - V5 ). A sixth was rebuilt in 1942 in a similar design (No. V6 ). This car is preserved in the AMTP. In addition, three Fourgons were used.

Freight wagons

The TPT had many open wagons, but also some covered wagons and cattle wagons. Decauville supplied the initial stock, but later the workshops in Pithiviers made the wagons used on the TPT themselves.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h John Organ: Northern France Narrow Gauge . Middleton Press, Midhurst 2002, ISBN 1-901706-75-3 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e W. JK Davies: Standard Decauville Stock. In: Continental Modeller. Volume 30, No. 2, February 2008, ISSN  0955-1298 , pp. 88-91.
  3. ↑ a b c d e The Hunslet “War Office” Type Locos . I Hughes. Retrieved March 26, 2008.
  4. ^ Preserved O&K steam locomotives ( German ) Jens Merte. Retrieved March 26, 2008.
  5. ↑ Entry No. PM45000766 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  6. ↑ Entry No. PM80001659 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  7. ↑ Entry No. PM45000767 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  8. ↑ Entry No. PM45000765 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  9. ↑ Entry No. PM80001566 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  10. ↑ Entry No. PM38000867 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  11. ↑ Entry No. PM45000816 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  12. ↑ Formerly Savoie, Calvados, TPT, 1957 Cap Ferret, CFTM, 1979–1991 Chemin de fer de St Eutrope, chemin de fer du Haut-Rhône and St Trojan .
  13. ^ Autorail X AT3 Decauville-Crochat . Le p'tit train de Saint-Trojan

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 29.2 "  N , 2 ° 14 ′ 36.7"  E