Historic Metre-Gauge Railways in Provence - the Nice to Digne Line

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    This next post focusses first on the Station and buildings close to it at Thorame-Haute. It highlights a local festival and the importance of the chapel adjacent to the railway station.

    https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/nice-to-digne-les-bains-part-11-thorame-haute-to-saint-andre-les-alpes-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-75


    The blog then takes us on from Thorame-Haute to Saint Andre les Alpes.

    In a number of these posts I have been picking up some images from 'www.railsim-fr.com' as there is now a rail simulator version of the Nice to Digne line.
     
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    The next step along the Nice to Digne railway line takes us from Saint-Andre-les-Alpes into the next valley - the valley of L'Asse.

    https://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/08/17/nice-to-digne-les-bains-part-12-saint-andre-les-alpes-to-barreme-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-76


     
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    The next post in the series on the line from Nice to Digne covers the length of the route from Barreme to the station at Mezel.

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/08/18/nice-to-digne-les-bains-part-13-barreme-to-mezel-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-77


    Barreme Station has been used as the source for a model by Aubertrain (http://aubertrain.com/modules.html). The diorama is 602 x 400 x 250 mm in size and costs 875 euros.
     
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    This is the final post covering the length of the Nice to Digne line. I hope to cover the motive power and rolling stock on the line in one or more additional posts.

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/08/22/nice-to-digne-les-bains-part-14-mezel-to-digne-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-78


     
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    In order to complete this series of posts on the Metre Gauge Railways of the Cote d'Azur and Var in Provence I have been working on a series of posts about the locomotives and rolling stock on the Nice to Digne-les-Bains Line. I have just posted the first of these:

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/12/1...ing-stock-steam-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-79

    This post focusses on the Steam locomotives used on the line between Nice and Digne-le-Bains. It is unlikely to be comprehensive and I'd be grateful of any contributions by others which will add to my knowledge. I am hampered particularly by not having access to the seminal work on the network by Jose Banaudo, "Le Siecle du Train des Pignes." [25] The text of this book is in french and as it is out of print a good copy will cost well over 50 euros. If anyone has access to this book and is prepared to add to the text of the blog, please feel free to do so, or email me direct and I will update the post.

    I would be particularly interested in details of locomotives which ran on the Nice to Digne Line throughout its life and which are nor properly covered within the text below.

    As part of studies on the two other main-lines which made up the network of the Chemins de Fer du Sud de la France - the Central Var line and Le Macaron - we covered a lot of ground investigating early traction and steam power on the lines of the whole network and provided as much information as possible about rolling stock on the system.

    The relevant posts are:

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/02/2...entral-var-line-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-50

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/03/0...entral-var-line-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-52

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/03/0...entral-var-line-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-54

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/01/2...nd-rolling-stock-chemin-de-fer-de-provence-49

    These posts are as comprehensive as possible for the era of operation of those lines and cover the period up to their closure after the Second World War. However, they are focussed on the two lines which closed. It make sense, therefore to review those posts in the light of a focus on the Nice to Digne Line. This blog sets out to do just that. I need also to acknowledge the support I have received in collating this information from 242TE66.
     
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    Hi, I am not sure what you are referring to. Could you perhaps point me to what it is?

    Hi Roger
    Re the above odd comments
    The post has had the non relevant content by Henry Block removed but the post not deleted if he wants to put relevant content back in he can
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