Chemin de fer du calvados
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Hi David,
Welcome to the Group. I've got Alain's book 'Calvados pour les Petits Trains', and love it. It took me a while to find one at a price I was willing to pay, from a French seller on eBay (?35 IIRC). I saw a copy once at an exhibition in Southampton but dawdled before buying and was beaten to it.
I can't comment on Henri's book.
I have joined a French Facebook group 'Le Calvados autrefois' which shows the area in old postcards, and CFC comes up from to time to time. There is also a French auction site delcampe.net which is searchable by location which might help re Caen.
Best wishes,
David H |
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Sent: 10 January 2020 19:19 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [o14] Chemin de fer du calvados ?
Hi David,
Welcome to the Group.
I've got Alain's book 'Calvados pour les Petits Trains', and love it. It took me a while to find one at a price I was willing to pay, from a French seller on eBay (?35 IIRC). I saw a copy once at an exhibition in Southampton but dawdled before buying and was
beaten to it.
I can't comment on Henri's book.
I have joined a French Facebook group 'Le Calvados autrefois' which shows the area in old postcards, and CFC comes up from to time to time. There is also a French auction site delcampe.net which is searchable by location which might help re Caen.
Best wishes,
David H
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开云体育Does Alain’s book have any drawings? I’d love to model a 60cm-gauge steam tram loco, and the Calvados enclosed 4-6-0ts would fit the bill nicely.Allan On 10 Jan 2020, at 19:05, ezeebob@... wrote:
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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
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Sent: 10 January 2020 19:58 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [o14] Chemin de fer du calvados ?
Hi David H, thanks for replying. Does the calvados book have good photos and so on. And does it mention the gare caen st pierre??Yours David |
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Hi Allan,
Alain's book has a few very poor (and rather small) line drawings. Rather better drawings of a Mallet and IIRC a Tubize Bi-cabine can be found in Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review - I must declare an interest as an associate of that publication.?
David H
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Allan Dare <allan.dare@...>
Sent: 10 January 2020 19:33 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [o14] Chemin de fer du calvados ?
Does Alain’s book have any drawings? I’d love to model a 60cm-gauge steam tram loco, and the Calvados enclosed 4-6-0ts would fit the bill nicely.
Allan
On 10 Jan 2020, at 19:05, ezeebob@... wrote:
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开云体育Thanks DavidThat rings a bell. I have a horrible feeling I gave away the relevant issue of NGIRM a good few years ago, during a temporary relapse from NG modelling (heresy, I know....!) Allan On 10 Jan 2020, at 21:53, David Hughes <formerchurchwarden@...> wrote:
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