Alan Sewell visits CARRIERES REDLAND GRANULATS de FLETY...
Alan's adventures continue with more from his visit diaries collected whilst on family holidays to France. This week we're visiting a ballast quarry in eastern France...
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| Moyse 36TDE 4WDE rebuilt by Patry, and acquired in 1992. Alan Sewell photo |
CARRIERES REDLAND GRANULATS de FLETY
Gauge: Standard
Date of Visit: August 1995
This quarry situated on the northern side of SNCF line, from Nevers to Autun, is a major supplier of ballast and quarry products in eastern France.
The sidings leave the SNCF line and curve into the loading area via a short branch. The tracks are parallel and slightly below the mainline and comprise
four long sidings of which one is for loading and two used for making up outbound trains.
Within the yard there are signs that tracks formerly led further into quarry but these are now overgrown or buried. Currently trains are loaded from a small storage bin fed by overhead conveyor. This single loading point is shunted by a Moyse 36TDE 4WDE rebuilt by Patry, and acquired in 1992. The loco is kept stabled on an adjoining spur when not in use.
Dumped at the end of a siding was a venerable Moyse 20TDE built in 1926, largely intact but becoming overgrown.
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| Moyse 20TDE built in 1926. Alan Sewell photo |
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| Moyse 36TDE 4WDE rebuilt by Patry, and acquired in 1992. Alan Sewell photo |
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| Alan Sewell photo |
Thanks to Alan for opening his visit note books again and agreeing to share their interesting and valuable content with us all here on the blog. If you'd like to take a look at Alan's reports from other visits you can find all the material he has contributed using the 'Alan Sewell' label below. Until next time, more soon...
Hi James
ReplyDeleteGlad you found another of my ramblings of interest and I hope your readers do to!!
I visited Luzy when we went to stay with a French family in Decize who hosted my daughters' French exchange visits. Interestingly ( for me) there were in still remains of a tileworks railway there- but that may be another story. For most people the interesting part about Decize maybe is that is mid-way between Sancerre and Beaujolais!! For some reason in 1995 I had my bike and decided to cycle the twenty or so miles to Luzy. I nearly gave up but did fid the quarry, enjoyed a walk around taking photos and returned in time for the evening meal. I think our French hosts and probably my wife thought I was mad!!!
Best regards
Alan
Thanks to Alan for another interesting selection of images. That overgrown Moyse 20TDE is very interesting and could inspire a person to a layout on its own.
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