Tourist and Minor Railways
Overseas Departments and Territories
Train on the Chemin de Fer Touristique du Pays de la Canne, Guadeloupe
(Photo © Jean-Paul Balensi)
Guadeloupe
- Chemin de Fer Touristique du Pays de la Canne
tourist line on a 7 km stretch of metre gauge line formerly
used for sugar cane traffic between Beauport and Petit-Canal in
the north of the island (No website located at
present)
Guyane
- There are no railways in Guyane.
Martinique
- Les Rails de la Canne à Sucre is a stretch of former
sugar cane railway, between the Rum Museum at Saint-James and
Fourniols (about 0,7km). Restored for tourist use with surviving
material from the original railway, which was built to the very
unusual gauge of 1168mm (3ft 10ins) (No website located at
present)
Polynésie Française (French Polynesia)
- There are no railways in French Polynesia.
Réunion
- The island once had an extensive (126km) network of metre gauge
lines, many relics of which still exist. The small railway museum
in Grande Chaloupe numbers among its exhibits a preserved autorail,
which is believed to operate occasionally on a short section of line.
(No website located at present)
TAAF
(Terres australes et antarctiques françaises)
- Archipel des Kerguelen: a whaling station was
operational at Port Jeanne d'Arc for a few years between 1908 and 1911.
It appears to have had a small narrow gauge railway network.
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2004-2011 Glyn Williams
