The Decauville factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois (previously known as Société Lilloise, or colloquially La Lilloise) produced prefabricated narrow gauge railway track and rolling stock from 1914 to the 1950ies in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.
The Decauville factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois (previously known as Société Lilloise, or colloquially La Lilloise) produced prefabricated narrow gauge railway track and rolling stock from 1914 to the 1950ies in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.
The factory belonged to Etablissements Decauville ainé, a French manufacturer focussing on the production and sales of narrow gauge railway material. It was located on a piece of land that Decauville had acquired in 1914 in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of the Île-de-France region in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris. It focussed on tippers, i.e. V skip railway wagons and roadworthy dump trucks. [2] [3]
The factory was renamed to Société Industrielle d'Aulnay in 1946, enabling the company to win a major contract. At the factory Aulnay that the last Decauville steam locomotives were built for the lignite mines of Yugoslavia. [1]
Aulnay-sous-Bois is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 13.9 km (8.6 mi) from the Kilometre zero.
Aulnay-sous-Bois station is the major railway station in the town of Aulnay-sous-Bois, in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis). It is on the RER B and the Transilien K lines. The station is also the terminus for tramway T4.
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The arrondissement of Le Raincy is an arrondissement of France in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region. It has 22 communes. Its population is 770,290 (2019), and its area is 149.6 km2 (57.8 sq mi).
Decauville was a manufacturing company which was founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922), a French pioneer in industrial railways. Decauville's major innovation was the use of ready-made sections of light, narrow gauge track fastened to steel sleepers; this track was portable and could be disassembled and transported very easily.
Île-de-France tramway Line 4, also called the T4, is an 13.3-kilometre (8.3 mi) long tram-train line in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of Île-de-France. The line starts at Aulnay-sous-Bois and features two branches, with the first running to Bondy and the second running to Montfermeil.
The Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury (TPT) was a 600 mm gauge railway in the Loiret department of France. It was built to carry sugar beet and was 80 kilometres (50 mi) long.
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The Canton of Sevran is a French administrative division, located in the arrondissement of Le Raincy, in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Sevran.
The canton of Aulnay-sous-Bois is an administrative division of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Aulnay-sous-Bois.
The Communauté urbaine Grand Paris Seine et Oise is the communauté urbaine, an intercommunal structure, covering the western suburbs of Paris. It is located in the Yvelines department, in the Île-de-France region, northern France. It was created in January 2016 by the merger of the previous communautés d'agglomération Mantes-en-Yvelines, Deux Rives de la Seine, Poissy-Achères-Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Seine & Vexin and the communautés de communes Coteaux du Vexin and Seine-Mauldre. Its area is 504.7 km2. Its population was 417,556 in 2018. Its seat is in Aubergenville.
The Tramway of Quend-Plage and Fort-Mahon was a 12.8 km (8.0 mi) long 600 mm gauge railway line, which operated from 1898-1914 and 1921-1934.
The Tramway of Clairvaux was a more than 5.8 km (3.6 mi) long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm in Ville-sous-la-Ferté near Clairvaux Abbey.
The Decauville railway of the Watissart quarries was a narrow-gauge railway of the quartzite and marble quarries in Jeumont in the Département Nord in the Hauts-de-France region. The former quarries have been flooded to create a lake that is now used as a nature reserve and recreational area for fishing, swimming and diving.
The Decauville factory in Moulins was used from 1918 to 1959 by the French railway supplier Decauville at Moulins, Allier.
The Decauville factory in Val-Saint-Lambert was a Belgian subsidiary of the French narrow-gauge railway manufacturer Decauville. It was founded in 1895 and taken over by the Berlin-based company O&K from 1911.
The Decauville factory in Marquette-lez-Lille produced locomotives and construction machinerys from 1923 to 1968.
The Decauville factory in Diano Marina produced prefabricated narrow gauge railway track and rolling stock from 1889 to 1895 in Diano Marina, Italy.
The Decauville factory in Petite-Synthe produced prefabricated narrow gauge railway track and rolling stock from 1903 to 1922 in Petite-Synthe near Dunkirk, France.
The Decauville railway of Suberbieville was a Decauville narrow-gauge railway near Maevatanana in Madagascar. It initially had a track gauge of 600 mm and after the arrival of six steam locomotives in 1896, it was metre gauge.
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