David,

'Calvados pour les Petits Trains' is A4 and has 175 pages, most with at least one illustration (there is a lovely double-page photo of Caen's place de la gare with standard and narrow gauge stations either side). St Pierre is there too, in fact there are several illustrations of the area because of the electric tramway.

I came across the railway when visiting the D-Day museum in Bayeux, where I notice a picture of British troops walking along a narrow gauge railway. A few years later I discovered that moving Pegasus bridge (the construction of which in 1923 severed the CFC's link beyond Salanelles) destroyed the last surviving bit of the trackbed. I can't say how dismayed I was!

A couple of years ago I entered a diorama of the halt at Hermanvilles, on the afternoon of D-Day, in the Dave Brewer Challenge at ExpoNG. One of these days I'll finish it. Which reminds me that some of the line can be explored online via the Imperial War Museum's photo collection and the Canadian government collection (depressing, as Canadian troops pulled apart the carriages they found to use as fuel). There won't be much of Caen St Pierre, as the fighting devastated the whole city.

One of the Norman-style stations survives at Le H?me-Varaville, and last time I was there the postmaster was, I believe, local historian Jean-Luc Kourilenko whose collections of photos have been published by Sutton and include 3 volumes on Caen which might be of help.

Now to search for the other book you mentioned ...

David H