Worth a visit if family require respite from battlefields and cemeteries.
Here’s some pics of the Somme railways during the war.
Light railway engine taking in water at a point in Trones Wood, December 1916 © IWM (Q 1692)
Light railway engine taking in water at a point in Trones Wood, December 1916 © IWM (Q 1693)
Some Foreign Lines
Froissy Dompierre Light Railway
The Froissy Dompierre Light Railway (CFCD) is a narrow-gauge light railway running from Froissy to Dompierre-Becquincourt, through Cappy, in the Somme department, France. It is run as a heritage railway by APPEVA and is also known as P’tit Train de la Haute Somme. It is the last survivor of the 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) gauge trench railways of the World War I battlefields.
Museum:
The Musée des chemins de fer Militaires et Industriels (Military and Industrial railways Museum), located near the line Terminus in the hamlet of Froissy, features a large collection of 600mm gauge railway material, steam engines, diesel engines and wagons, in a 1800 m² exhibition hall inaugurated in 1996. it also features an interesting Fairbanks-Morse speeder of 1917, used by the US Army.
Froissy Dompierre Light Railway
(P’tit Train de la Haute Somme)
Commercial operations
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17th Battalion Manchester Regiment on the Somme 