Établissements Billard was a French railway rolling stock construction company founded in 1920 and based in Tours. It specialised in light railbuses and metre gauge and narrow gauge rolling stock. The business ceased trading in 1956 and later became Socofer.
The Chemins de Fer du Calvados was a 600 mm narrow gauge railway in the département of Calvados.
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.
The Baldwin Class 10-12-D was a class of narrow gauge 4-6-0PT steam locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works (USA) for the British War Department Light Railways for service in France during World War I. They were built in 1916–1917 to 600 mm gauge.
The Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn (CFTT), or Tarn Light Railway, is a narrow-gauge light railway near the village of Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur, in the vicinity of Saint-Sulpice in the department of Tarn, France. It is run as a heritage railway by a French association, the ACOVA incorporated in 1975 and based in Toulouse. It operates on a 500 mm gauge and the line was reconstructed from 1974 over a length of 3.5 kilometers (2.2 mi) on the trackbed of the former line from La Ramière to Saint-Sulpice which operated only from 11 April 1925, to 20 June 1931.
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.
Rail transport in Morocco was initially developed during the protectorate. It functioned primarily as a means to mobilize colonial troops and to transport natural resources. Later, a standard-gauge network was built.
The French National Railways used to run a considerable number of 1,000 mmmetre gauge lines, a few of which still operate mostly in tourist areas, such as the St Gervais-Vallorcine (Alps) and the "Petit Train Jaune" in the Pyrenees. The original French scheme was that every sous-prefecture should be rail connected. Extensive 600 mm gauge lines were also built for the sugar-beet industry in the north often using ex-military equipment after the First World War. Decauville was a famous French manufacturer of industrial narrow-gauge railway equipment and equipped one of the most extensive regional 600 mm narrow-gauge railway, the Chemins de fer du Calvados. Corsica has a narrow-gauge network of two lines following the coast line, that are connected by one line crossing the island through highly mountainous terrain. The petit train d'Artouste, a tourist line in the Pyrenees, uses 500 mm gauge.
French Morocco had from 1912 to 1935 one of the largest 600 mm gauge network in Africa with a total length of more than 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi). After the treaty of Algeciras where the representatives of Great Powers agreed not to build any 1,435 mm standard-gauge railway in Morocco until the standard-gauge Tangier–Fes railway being completed, the French begun to build military 600 mm gauge lines in their part of Morocco French Morocco.
The Decauville railway at Exposition Universelle (1889) was a 3 km (1.9 mi) long 600 mm gauge railway line, which operated during the Exposition Universelle world fair from 6 May to 31 October 1889 from Esplanade des Invalides to Avenue de Suffren in Paris.
The Naphtha Hill Decauville Railway was a 32.5 km (20.2 mi) long horse-drawn railway with a gauge of 500 mm, which was supplied by the French company Decauville. It operated around 1885-1889 near Bala-Ischem, 12 km (7.5 mi) southeast of Balkanabat in Turkestan. Its track and rolling stock were originally used during the construction of the Transcaspian Railway to transport the rails and sleepers to the construction site using two oil-fired Decauville steam locomotives with works numbers N° 9 and N° 10. It was built with portable track, i.e. 5 m long rail panels prefabricated in France with a track gauge of 500 mm.
The Decauville Railway of the Cobazet Estate was a 12 km (7.5 mi) long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm near Mosset in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
The Decauville Tramway at Exposition Universelle in Gent, 1913 was a temporary narrow gauge railroad with a gauge of 600 mm, which was operated during the World Fair held in Ghent from 26 April to 3 November 1913.
The Chambéry tramway was from 1892 to 1932 an up to 31 km (19 mi) long narrow-gauge steam tram network with 33 halts on four lines in Chambéry in Savoy in France.
The Tramway at Darvault was an approximately 5.5 km (3.4 mi) long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm from the sand pits at Darvault to the Canal du Loing at Montcourt-Fromonville in France.
The Decauville railway at Láchar was an 8.3 km (5.2 mi) long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm from Íllora-Láchar railway station via the Eiffel Bridge to the sugar mill in Láchar.
The Decauville railway Tianjin – Jinnan was a short 3 kilometres narrow gauge railway in China temporarily laid with a track gauge of 600 mm in Tianjin (Tientsin) in 1886.
The Tramways de Royan were two narrow-gauge railways that provided mainly passenger transport in and around the coastal resort town of Royan in western France.
