A 1960's Sunday day-trip to
Chemin De Fer
de la Baie de Somme


This album of 28 black & white prints is by an unknown English photographer & railway buff.
See also Baie de Somme Railway Preservation Society
The text below is as written in the album.
"Casting off" from Folkestone . . Exit from harbour . . . . Fellow travellers . . Tying up at Calais

Loco for Special train . . . . Metre gauge special train at Noyelles . . 0-6-0 Locotracteur

Decline of narrow gauge . . . . . . . . . . Near St.Valery sur Somme Ville

Original locos of the narrow gauge railway between Noyelles & Cayeux

Terminal station at Cayeux . . . Café . . . "Send off" from staff at Lancheres . . . Le Somme

Sunday afternoon passenger train . . . . Normal service train
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Non-stop express . . Note low platform on the main line . . Stopping train for Noyelles

Exit from Calais . . Late evening landfall . . Sunset over Folkestone
This album was scanned and presented here by Dave Harris, May 2000