The Tramway of Clairvaux (French Tramway des Fours à Chaux) was a more than 5.8 km (3.6 mi) long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) in Ville-sous-la-Ferté near Clairvaux Abbey.
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_-_Hotel_Judey_(R._Rale,_phot._Bar-sur-Aube).jpg) Corpet-Louvet No 539 of 1891 at the Hotel Saint Bernard
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| Native name | Tramway des Fours à Chaux | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Line length | More than 5.8 km (3.6 mi) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track gauge | 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Route
editThe main line ran on the départemental road D 396 in the Aube Valley to connect the hamlets Les Forges Saint Bernard, Le Four à Chaux and Clairvaux of the municipality Ville-sous-la-Ferté. It started at Clairvaux railway station on the Paris-Est–Mulhouse-Ville railway between Troyes and Culmont-Chalindrey.[2] It passed the Usines du Pont Rouge, a subsidiary of the iron-frame bed manufacturer Etablissements Berl in Luxemburg, which are now owned by Regnier, a manufacturer of wooden seat panels.[3] [4] It also passed the Hotel Saint Bernard, just opposite Clairvaux Abbey, which is now being used as a high-security prison, where it regularly stopped for refreshments and for taking photographs.[5] From there it continued probably to other lime quarries and furnaces.
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Narrow gauge track at Clairvaux station -
Départemental road from Bar-sur-Aube to Dijon
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It was mainly used for goods transport of mineral products such as lime, cement and coal and had sidings at the following companies:
- Société des Chaux Hydrauliques et Ciments de l'Aube
- Usines Poliet & Chausson, a lime producer
- Usine Saint-Bernard, a lime producer
- Usine de Chaux Convert et Maugras (subsequently Société des Chaux Hydrauliques et Ciments de l'Aube)[6]
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Usines Poliet & Chausson, a lime producer -
Usine Saint-Bernard, a lime producer
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Locomotives
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At least two steam locomotives were owned by the Société des Chaux Hydrauliques et Ciments to be used on this line:
- 0-6-0T Corpet-Louvet with a Systeme Brown control, No 539 delivered on 23 March 1891[7]
- 0-6-0T O&K No 2849 delivered around 1911[7]
References
edit- ^ Length of the route on Google Maps.
- ^ Station and former narrow gauge depot on Google Streetview.
- ^ Usine de lits métalliques S.A. E. Berl, actuellement usine de sièges en bois S.A.R.L. Maurice Régnier.
- ^ Regnier S.A. on Google StreetView.
- ^ Hotel de l'Abbaye on Google StreetView.
- ^ Usine de chaux Convert et Maugras, puis S.A. des chaux hydrauliques et ciments de l'Aube.
- ^ a b Rail et Industrie, No 51, March 2013.
48°08′45″N 4°47′35″E / 48.145779518505485°N 4.793190871345208°E