Frederic Delaitre Railway Pages: Lost Subways, Forgotten Tunnels, Strange Railways, Narrow Gauge, Railway Modelling

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18th of January 1998
Last updated:
October 11th, 2009

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Last of Summer Steam Glion, Switzerland - August 28th, 2004	Expométrique 2009 June 6-7th, 2009
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Last day of steam traction on the Montreux-Glion-Rocher de Naye line (80cm gauge - rack & pinion).	Special Report on Expometrique 2009 in Richelieu : France's premier exhibition totally dedicated to narrow gauge. Part 1 — Part 2

Due to the closure of my ISP Club-Internet, I had to move all this site to SFR personal Web Pages. The process of moving 500+ megs of pages should be completed by the end of this week. You may still encounter some broken links and missing pictures. Please accept my apologies for this situation due to circumstances beyond my control.

What's on these pages?
These pages are dedicated to one of my center of interest: railways (or "railroads" for our friends from across the Atlantic) and model railways. Unlike most mainstream railfans, my preference goes to "on the fringe" railways: mostly disused, abandoned, long forgotten railways (especially underground) and in railway experiments such as pneumatic railways, cable hauled tramways, early systems of electric traction, etc.

Like many railfans, I am also a railway modeller with a special interest in narrow gauge railways in On3, On30, On18, Sn3, HOn3, Nn3 and HOe scales.

Sources:
Information contained in these pages are coming from a variety of sources including books and videos from my personal library, as well as information gathered on the Net from Usenet, Forums and Web pages.

These pages are provided on an "as is" basis. All mistakes are mine and I will be happy to correct them. There is also a lot of question marks in these pages and I will appreciate any feedback (please use my Contact Page. All contributions will be duly acknowledged.

Tip o' the hat:
To the following individuals who have constantly supported this site from its early developments in 1998:

Dan Weissmann's Transportation Links.
Phil O'Keefe and his Chicago Tunnel Company unique Web Page.
Gilbert Gribi and his Monde du Modélisme from Switzerland.
Emmanuel Drouard, fellow countrymen from Clamecy, France, Webmaster of the Rail Vaux d'Yonne site.
Johnathan Littell and his fascinating International Urban Adventure Site.

2009 Now on Twitter and Posterous!

And always my Railway Blog (in French):

Contents:

Railway Videos:

Some railway videos are available under different media formats on my other Web site: http://www.fdelaitre.net/.

Latest addition is:

Leaving Tirano., on the Rhaetian Railways (August 2005).

Lost Subways:

More to come:

Kingsway tunnel, Holborn, London.

US domain: Cincinnati (OH), Los Angeles (CA), Rochester (NY).

Forgotten tunnels:

Strange railways:

Mazet's project for a metropolitan railway "without rails, coaches, tunnels and viaducts" (in french with a summary in english).
Girard's water gliding railway. ( en francais / in french). An "hydraulic" railway tested in the 19th century.

Narrow Gauge railways:

Montreux MOB station - some pictures (October 14th, 1998) of Montreux MOB narrow gauge station (1 meter and 0.80 meter gauge).
Le Petit Train du Jardin d'Acclimatation - 50 cm gauge line, one of the oldest rail operation in Paris still operating.
La voie de 60 aux armées - ( en francais / in french) le scan d'un petit recueil d'aquarelles de la guerre de 14-18. Un visiteur pourra t'il m'en dire plus sur l'auteur de ces dessins ?
A strange narrow-gauge roundabout in Changsha, China.
Le chemin de fer de la Baie de Somme. Quelques photos prises en gare de Saint-Valéry sur Somme en juillet 1994. Some pictures taken in Saint Valéry sur Somme during the summer of 1994.
Une promenade sur le Blanc-Argent en 1995. (en francais / in french)
Quelques photos de l'un des derniers secondaires français à voie métrique./ Some pictures of one of the last meter gauge railway still in operation in France.
"Jour de Fête", a 1948 movie by Jacques Tati and Marçay meter-gauge railway station..
Taman Mini 60cm narrow gauge railway, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Jakarta's Transportation Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Index to the Magazine des Tramways à Vapeur et des Secondaires (in french, published from 1976 to 1989 / 52 issues).
50cm gauge railway at the Paris Museum of Arts and Trades (in french and english).
Froissy Steam Festival: 2006 and 2007 issues.

Railway Modelling:

My own almost official web page to:
SMRG Solent Model Railway Group, Southampton, England.
Egger-Bahn / JOUEF ve HOe page( en français / in french)
Gaston Menier's table railway(1887). - ( en français / in french)
A tribute to: Pierre Delarue-Nouvellière, artist, photograph and railfan.
Mondial de la Maquette 2001, Paris.
Mondial de la Maquette 2002, Paris.
Mondial de la Maquette 2003, Paris.
Mondial de la Maquette 2004, Paris.
Mondial de la Maquette 2006, Paris.
Expométrique Special Reports: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 , 2005, 2009.
Slide show: Expometrique 2006. (Requires Adobe Flash Player).
GEMME specials: Saint Valen'train 1999, Le GEMME au Muséum (2002), A.G. 2002 (19 avril 2002) — Musée des Transports de Valmondois (MTVS).
Escadrille Saint-Michel: Exhibition 2006, March 25th-26th.

Standard gauge railways:

De Munster à Metzéral, a quiet line in the Vosges. [In french]
Bergerac (Dordogne) station in South-West France. [In french]
Le Train Capitale, an Exhibition on Paris Champs-Élysées in 2003.
Some pictures of the Clamecy (Nièvre), France, SNCF/CFTA station.
A special site dedicated to the history of the city of Clamecy (in french, not railway-related).

Miscellaneous:

To celebrate the Winter Season, I propose a Christmas tale for children in french and english by Annie & André Delaitre:

The very true story of Mr. Snowball / La très véridique histoire de Monsieur Neigenboule
La Tourte de Montclar, french traditional bread baked in Saint-Georges de Montclar, Dordogne, France.
A railway exhibition in Paris (April 1st, 2002).
Old photographs of Champigny-en-Beauce, home of the famous "Cité Agricole" built by François-Philibert Dessaignes.
Champigny-en-Beauce: a journey through the century.
Part 1 - Part 2

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