Gare de Noyelles

Noyelles station
Gare de Noyelles

Photograph of Noyelles station

Gare de Noyelles
Location Route du Crotoy, 80133 Noyelles-sur Mer,
France
Coordinates 50°11′13″N 1°42′15″E / 50.18694°N 1.70417°ECoordinates: 50°11′13″N 1°42′15″E / 50.18694°N 1.70417°E
Operated by Intercités, TER Picardie, Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Line(s) Boulogne—Abbeville Line
Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Platforms 4
Tracks 5
Electrified No

The Gare de Noyelles is a railway station serving the town Noyelles-sur-Mer, Somme department, northern France. It is served by mainline trains on the Boulogne - Abbeville line, and also by the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme heritage railway trains to Le Crotoy, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and Cayeux-sur-Mer.

History

Gare de Noyelles station opened in 1845 when the Chemin de Fer du Nord standard gauge line between Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais and Amiens, Somme opened.

Approaching Noyelles, note the four-rail dual gauge track.

In 1858, a 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) standard gauge branch to St. Valery Quai was opened. Extension of the line was desired in the 1880s, but it was considered that it would be too expensive to build the line as standard gauge. Instead, the exetnsions were to be laid with metre gauge track. A 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) extension to Le Crotoy opened on 1 July 1887. A 19 kilometres (12 mi) metre gauge line to Cayeux-sur-Mer opened on 6 September 1887. This line was laid as a dual gauge line as far as St. Valery, with the metre gauge rails laid between the standard gauge rails.[1] On 28 August 1892, an 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) metre gauge line opened to Forest-l'Abbaye, joining with a 42 kilometres (26 mi) long line between Abbeville and Dompierre-sur-Authie which had opened on 19 June 1892. The whole system became known as the Réseau des Bains de Mer.[2]

The line to Forest l'Abbaye closed to passengers on 10 March 1947, but remained open for freight until 1 February 1951, although there was occasional traffic on the line until 1965.[2] The line to Le Crotoy closed on 31 December 1969 and that to Cayeux on 31 December 1972. by which time the line to Le Crotoy had reopened as a heritage railway. The line to Cayeux was subsequently reopened as a heritage railway, and the two lines operate as the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme.[1] The standard gauge line to St. Valery was operated by SNCF until 6 February 1989 and officially closed from 1 January 1993.[2]

Services

Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
toward Paris-Nord
Intercités
toward Amiens
TER Picardie 24
toward Calais-Ville
  Heritage railways
Terminus   Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Noyelles – Le Crotoy		   Morlay
Terminus   Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Noyelles – St. Valery Quai		   St. Valery Quai
Terminus   Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Noyelles – Cayeux-sur-Mer		   St. Valery Ville
Disused railways
Terminus   Réseau des Bains de Mer
Noyelles – Cayeux-sur-Mer
Noyelles – St. Valery Quai		   St. Valery Canal
Terminus   Réseau des Bains de Mer
Noyelles – Forest-l'Abbaye		   Sailly-Bray

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Organ, John (2002). "Chapter 6: Metre gauge miscellany". Northern France Narrow Gauge. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-901706-75-3.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pacey, Philip (2000). Railways of the Baie de Somme. Usk, Mon.: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-554-3.

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