Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme

Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Touristique (French) Toerisme en Spoor Patrimonium (Dutch)

PFT's 64.169 at a Gala on the Chemin de fer du Bocq, 15 August 2011.
Locale	Belgium
Terminus	St Ghislan
Preserved operations
Preservation history
11 August 1988	Society formed
Website
http://www.pfttsp.be/

Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme (French) (PFT) are a society dedicated to the preservation of Belgian railway heritage. They cover a number of aspects of railway enthusiasm, operating charter trains, maintaining heritage locomotives (steam and diesel) and operating a museum at Saint-Ghislain.

Charter Trains

PFT operate charter trains on the Belgian railway network. They have their own train of carriages and fleet of locomotives which are passed by Infrabel for these operations. Both steam and diesel locomotives are used. PFT are often called upon to run trains celebrating railway milestones, e.g. they organised the final workings for the recently withdrawn Class 15 & Class 16 locomotives.

Preservation of Belgian Railway Heritage

This takes place at their museum in Saint-Ghislain and at their site within SNCB's Schaerbeek depot. Maintenance of the operational fleet takes place at Schaerbeek, and vehicle restoration is centred on Saint-Ghislain. The museum is host to a number of model railway events each year.

Steam Locomotives

Ty2-3554 running as 26.101 at Mechelen

CFR 230 084 (numbered SNCB 64.169)
PKP Ty2-3554 (numbered SNCB 26.101)

Diesel Locomotives

210.077 at Dorinne-Durnal on the CfB

SNCB Class 51: 5117 (kept as source of spares), 5128, 5149, 5183
SNCB Class 59: 5927, 5941
SNCB Class 60/61: 6010, 6019, 6077 (numbered 210.077 as of the pre 1971 numbering scheme) and 6106. Prototype loc 6003 was scrapped at Ronet in December 2010.
SNCB Class 62/63: 6289
SNCB Class 70: 7005 (numbered 270.005)
SNCB Class 80: 8061
SNCB Class 83: 8320
SNCB Class 84: 8428
SNCB Class 85: 8524
SNCB Class 92: 9209

Electric Locomotives

SNCB Class 18: 1805
SNCB Class 28: 2801

Electric Multiple Units

SNCB Class AM54: 082

Diesel Multiple Units

4506 at Spontin on the CfB

SNCB Class AR40: 4001
SNCB Class AR43: 4333
SNCB Class AR45: 4506
SNCB Class AR46: 4602, 4605 (at CfB), 4613, 4618 (numbered 554.18)
SNCB Class AR49: 4906 (numbered 553.29)
Class 551: 551.26 (Stored at Schaerbeek), 551.48
ES: ES 102 (at CfB)

Chemin de fer du Bocq

PFT have taken over the Ciney - Spontin - Yvoir railway line and operate it as the Chemin de fer du Bocq (Cfb) heritage railway. It retains a connection to the national network at Ciney, which facilitates PFT using main line locomotives at their events. A gala is held every year. During 2012 CrossRail AG provided a class 66 locomotive as a feature.

En Lignes/Op Der Baan

PFT produce a bi-monthly commercial magazine aimed at the Belgian rail enthusiasts, produced in French (En Lignes) and Dutch (Op Der Baan) versions. The name translates to English as On the line.

References

↑ Haydock, David; Fox, Peter & Garvin, Brian (2008). European Handbook No. 1 Benelux Railways Locomotives & Coaching Stock (Fifth Edition ed.). Sheffield, UK: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-902336-64-0.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to PFT-TSP.

Official website PFT (French)