Chemins de Fer du Calvados

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Gare de Courseulles, with the narrow gauge railway in the foreground.

The Chemins de Fer du Calvados was a narrow gauge railway in the département of Calvados.

The company began operations on its 0.60m (1 ft 11½ in) network in 1891, up until 1944.

1 Line openings
2 Network
3 Architecture
- 3.1 A sense of identity
- 3.2 Station photos

[edit] Line openings

Opened	Section	Length (km)	Closed
	Luc-sur-Mer - Dives-sur-Mer
1891	Luc-sur-Mer - Ouistreham	9	1944
1892	Ouistreham - Bénouville	4	1944
1892	Bénouville - Dives-sur-Mer	15	1932
	Luc-sur-Mer - Bayeux
1900	Luc-sur-Mer - Courseulles-sur-Mer (addition of a third track onto the track of the CF de Caen à la Mer)	8	1931
1899	Courseulles-sur-Mer - Bayeux	22	1931
1899	Ryes - Arromanches	4	1930
	Bénouville - Caen
1893	Bénouville - Caen Saint-Pierre	10	1944
1904	Caen Saint-Pierre - Caen Ouest	2	1944
	Isigny-sur-Mer - Balleroy
1896	Isigny-sur-Mer - Grandcamp	10	1929
1900	Grandcamp - Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer	12	1929
1901	Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer - La mine de Littry	20	1929
1904	La mine de Littry - Balleroy	9	1929
	Port-en-Bessin - Saint-Martin-des-Besaces
1899	Bayeux - Port-en-Bessin	11	1932
1904	Bayeux - Balleroy	16	1930
1906	Balleroy - Saint-Martin-des-Besaces	25	1930
	Caen - Falaise
1902	Caen Ouest - Potigny	32	1933
1902	Potigny - Falaise Château	12	1932
1904	Falaise Château - Falaise	2	1932

[edit] Network

Plan of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados.

[edit] Architecture

[edit] A sense of identity

As many railway companies, Calvados adopted its own architecture. Due to relative small size of the company, despite its large network, the company never built large stations. In sead, Calvados built small but efficient and practicall buildings in a mock Norman style.

Calvados built stations in a range of sizes, some being nothing more than a bus shelter, others fuly functional railway stations, similar to Ouest BV5 stations.