Heritage route
Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Cayeux-sur-Mer → Le Crotoy · France
Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme in pictures
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- Distance
- 28 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 19 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Association du Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
- Train
- 130T steam locomotive (Cail · Haine-Saint-Pierre) · Belle Époque carriages
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1887
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Belle-Époque steam trains skirt the Somme estuary’s tidal salt marshes, with locomotives running round their own train at each terminus.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 11197689 (11 km), relation 11197690 (13 km) — 25 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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