Re : Les Chemins de Fer du Sud de La France - Ligne de Central Var

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rogerfarnworth

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My wife and I spend a couple of weeks each year in the South of France. I have become very interested in the historic metre-gauge railway lines in the area. One is still in use - the Nice to Digne Line. But there were many more. I hope to share some sense of what it was like to travel these lines in the early 20th Century

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 200 kilometres 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
 


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.co...s-sur-mer-part-1-chemin-de-fer-de-provence-20
 




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