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Metre-Gauge Railways in Provence


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There was a very extensive network of secondary lines in France of which many were of metre-gauge. The line from Nice to Meyrargues was one of these. The route was over 200kilometres in length and left the Nice to Digne Line at La Manda near Colomars. The link below takes you to the first of my blog posts on this line:

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/ligne-de-central-var-part-1

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The Chemins de Fer du Sud de la France made connections with a number of tramways operated by TAM. The first of these was a tramway between Cagnes-sur-Mer and Vence. This next post covers that metre-gauge tramway.

 

There were a significant number of electric tramways in the area around Nice which connected either to the Chemins de Fer du Sud or linked towns on the coast with those further inland. This tramway did both. It operated from around 1911 until around 1932.

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/tramway-between-vence-and-cagne-sur-mer-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-17

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A number of different railways met at Grasse.Two TAM tramways, one from Cagnes-sur-Mer and one from Cannes approached the town from the south. A PLM branchline also linked Grasse to Cannes. There was a funicular railway linking the PLM (SNCF) railway station to the town centre, and there was the Chemins de Fer du Sud de la France Central Var line crossing the town on its way between Nice and Meyrargues.

 

This next post covers the first part of the story of the TAM tramway between Cagnes-sur-Mer and Grasse:

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/the-tramway-between-grasse-and-cagnes-sur-mer-part-1-chemin-de-fer-de-provence-20

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I am new to posting on rmweb. I'd assumed that because the subject was a narrow-gauge line, this was a good place to post and that it might be of interest to people here. There are a number of threads which relate to narrow gauge railways on the continent in this narrow gauge section ... for instance:

 

'Zugastieta'- Southwold in Spain

Tralee and Blennerville Railway, Co Kerry, Ireland

Peat railway in Northern Germany

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This blog looks very interesting, My parents took us on many holidays to the Var region in the 1960s and 70s so I am always interested in the area (and its railways, of course). I suggest you will get more traction (ho, ho) if you post in the French railways forum on this site. France is very much a minority interest among UK narrow gauge modellers. But old narrow gauge lines in France are of great interest to quite a lot of French railway enthusiasts.

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Tanneron became the eastern terminal of the line after the invasion in 1944 as many of the viaducts to the East had been destroyed. This post covers the length of the line from Tanneron to Seillans:

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/ligne-de-central-var-part-7-chemin-de-fer-de-provence-27

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