Chemins de fer du Midi

The Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Midi, short Chemin de Fer du Midi or CF du Midi was a private company, the operating rail lines between the coasts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic from Bordeaux and Cette to the Spanish border in the south of France.

Besides railways operated the " Midi " and channels, including the Lateral Canal à la Garonne and the Canal du Midi, the former 208.5 km, 286.5 km long latter.

The Chemin de Fer du Midi was established in 1853 under the assumption of 1852 awarded concessions for the railway line Bordeaux - Cette (476 km, opened piecewise 1855-1857 ) Narbonne -Perpignan (63 km, opened in 1858 ), and Lamothe -Bayonne plus diversion to Montreal de Marsan (193 km, opened in 1855).

A substantial part of the network and the Garonne Canal were licensed and supported government- granting of subsidies, interest rate guarantees and interest rate guarantees.

By an agreement dated December 30, 1858 and 11 June 1859 ( Law of 11 June 1859) of the Chemin de Fer du Midi additional railway line ( Bayonne and Irun Adge - Lodève ) were licensed and split the network into an old and new. End of 1859, the length of the concession old network 796 km, the 848 km of the new network. More extensive Linienkonzessionierungen followed 1863-1907. Basically, the network of the Chemin de Fer du Midi end of 1912, had an area of ​​4080 km.

1934 merged the Chemin de Fer du Midi with the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans to the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans et du Midi (PO -Midi ) and formed as to the transfer to the State Railway Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français ( SNCF) in 1938, the largest private railway in France.

External links and sources

• Röll, Freiherr von: Encyclopedia of railways, Volume 5, Berlin, Vienna, 1914, p 195

AL | État | EL | Est | Midi | North | PLM | PO | PO -Midi | Ouest

• Former Railroad Company ( France)