Heritage route
Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Cayeux-sur-Mer → Le Crotoy · France
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Belle-Époque steam trains skirt the Somme estuary’s tidal salt marshes, with locomotives running round their own train at each terminus.
Stations
- 0 kmCayeux-sur-Mer-Brighton-Plage
- 11 kmSaint-Valéry Port
- 18 kmNoyelles-sur-Mer
- 21 kmMorlay
- 25 kmGare du Crotoy
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme?
The Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme runs 28 km from Cayeux-sur-Mer to Le Crotoy.
How long does the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 1 h 30 min for the 28 km. That is an average of 19 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 25 km/h.
Who runs the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme?
Association du Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme, with 130T steam locomotive (Cail, Haine-Saint-Pierre), Belle Époque carriages.
How old is the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme?
The line has been in service since 1887. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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