French Narrow Gauge Album

In this album we follow these adventures as they began to discover the multitude of different narrow gauge railways once to be found across the sea. In France the narrow gauge was far more extensive than in Britain. Across the Republic as a whole, narrow gauge public railways at one time ran something approaching 12,000 miles of route. This enormous network of narrow gauge railways was developed between 1870 and 1925. Motive power on the French narrow gauge ranged from lightweight 0-6-0T tram engines to hefty 0-6-6-0T Mallets, together with all sorts of colourful and exotic railcars. This album sets out the highlights of the adventures of British photographers like Pat Whitehouse, Eric Russell, Lance King and John Snell in glorious colour with entertaining accounts of their travels, and then brings the story right up to date with the digital photography of Jose Banaudo, Peter Lovell and Steve Sedgwick in the most colourful and comprehensive account of the French narrow gauge for many years.