Crochat
Crochat was a French railway equipment construction company founded in 1899 by Henry Crochat. It is best known for building locomotives and railcars with petrol-electric transmission.
Crochat was a French railway equipment construction company founded in 1899 by Henry Crochat. It is best known for building locomotives and railcars with petrol-electric transmission.
Petrol–electric transmission (UK English), or gasoline–electric transmission or gas–electric transmission (US English), is a transmission system for vehicles powered by petrol engines. Petrol–electric transmission was used for a variety of...
The Saint-Chamond (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʃamɔ̃] ) was the second French tank to enter service during the First World War, with 400 manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918. It takes its name from the commune of Saint-Chamond where its...
Chemins de fer de la Corse (French pronunciation: [ʃəmɛ̃ də fɛʁ də la kɔʁs], CFC; Corsican: Camini di Ferru di a Corsica) is the name of the regional rail network serving the island of Corsica. It is centred on the town of Ponte Leccia, from which...
A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is a transmission system powered by diesel engines which generate electricity to power electric motors on vehicles in road, rail, and marine transport. Diesel–electric transmission is...
The Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury (French pronunciation: [tʁamwɛ də pitivje a tuʁi], TPT) was a 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) gauge railway in the Loiret department of France. It was built to carry sugar beet and was 80 kilometres (50 mi) long.
The Chemin de fer de la vallée de l'Eure (English: Eure Valley Railway) is a tourist railway operated by an enthusiast association on a section of the old railway line from Orléans to Rouen, between their base at Pacy-sur-Eure and Breuilpont or...
The Chemins de Fer du Calvados (French pronunciation: [ʃəmɛ̃ də fɛʁ dy kalvados]) was a 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) narrow gauge railway in the département of Calvados.
French Morocco had from 1912 to 1935 one of the largest 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) gauge network in Africa with a total length of more than 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi). After the treaty of Algeciras where the representatives of Great Powers agreed not...