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    Meter gauge in Poitou THE SHORT LIFE OF A NETWORK

    Dec 22, 2017 3 minutes
    Text: Vincent Lepais Photos: coll. F. Fisson (unless otherwise mentioned)

    1872, the first subsidies for a local railway network were approved by the Vienne departemental elected assembly. After several years of the customary hesitating between routes and gauges, a meter gauge line was built from Poitiers (PO line from Paris to Bordeaux) to St-Martin-l’Ars (PO ligne from Civray to Le Blanc) between 1892 and 1896, under the name of “Tramways de la Vienne” (TV). The track was laid with 15kg/m flat-bottomed rail, in lengths of 9m. Motive power was provided by

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