Chemins de fer de la Corse Rolling Stock

Chemins de fer de la Corse Rolling Stock

Chemins de fer de la Corse Current Rolling Stock

Services are provided with sixteen multiple units and locomotives. All are diesel-powered.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Multiple Units

• Four 250 kW (330 hp): Compagnie des chemins de fer départementaux CFD X2000 series railcars built between 1975 and 1983, X2001, X2002, X2004 and X2005.
• Two 360 kW (480 hp) X5000 series railcars, X5001 and X5002.
• Seven Soulé: Soulé X97000 series railcars numbered X97051–X97057 built between 1989 and 1997. These railcars have two 360 kW (480 hp) engines.
• Six Soulé trailers with driving cabs built 1997.
• Three Renault ABH8 series railcars, X201, X204 and X206. These are scheduled for withdrawal once all the new AMG800 railcars are introduced into service.
• There are also ten Billard railcars that have had their engines removed, used as trailers. These include XR113, XR504, XR505 and XR526.
• Twelve AMG800 railcars are scheduled to be delivered between June 2007 and 2009. These will reduce journey times on the Bastia-Corte-Ajaccio route to 2h 30m and allow the Soulé railcars to be transferred to the Bastia-Calvi route. The first AMG800 railcar arrived on 23 June 2007.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Locomotives

• Three CFD B-B centre cab diesel locomotives built by Brissonneau et Lotz. BB404 ex Chemins de fer de Provence. BB405 new to CFC in 1966 and BB406 built in 1973 as a standard-gauge locomotive, regauged and transferred to CFC in 1995.
• Three FAUR diesel locomotives built in Romania, 45001–003 with Maybach engines. Owned by Constructions Ferroviaires Giragr (CFG), used for track improvement work prior to introduction of the AMG800 railcars.
• Nine FAUR L45H B-B diesel–hydraulic locomotives, 60001–009 re-engined with 570 kW (770 hp) Caterpillar engines. Owned by CFG, used for track improvement work prior to introduction of the AMG800 railcars. These locomotives will leave Corsica in 2009.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Service Vehicles

• Two Geismar VTM service vehicles, numbered 850.01 and 850.02. 850.01 has a hydraulic crane and 850.02 has a personnel cabin.
• One Matissa tamper.
• One Köf 4w diesel shunter converted to metre gauge, numbered D200. This locomotive left Corsica in 2009.

Amongst the freight stock still in service is a bogie flat wagon converted into a fire-fighting wagon.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Former Rolling Stock

Chemins de fer de la Corse Steam Locomotives

• Fourteen 0-6-2T locomotives, numbered 28–41, built by Fives-Lille in 1887 and 1888.
• Four 2-6-0T locomotives, numbered 53–56, built by Fives-Lille in 1891.
• Twenty two 0-4-4-0T Mallets, numbered 301–319 and 351–353, built by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (SACM) between 1893 and 1922.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Diesel Locomotives

• 403 created from the remains of Billard railcar X103. Withdrawn in 1962.
• 1 built by CFD in 1948, to CFC in 1966. Preserved at MTVS.
• 2 built by Voies ferrées du Dauphiné in 1950, to CFC in 1966.
• 3 built by CFD Seine et Marne in 1951, to CFC in 1967.
• 114 built from Billard railcar X114. In use until the early 1990s, now withdrawn from service and stored at Casarnozza.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Billard Railcars

• Six 160 kW (210 hp) Billard railcars numbered X101–X106, built in 1935 and 1936. X103 destroyed by fire in 1946. Remains used to create diesel locomotive 403.
• Six 110 kW (150 hp) Billard railcars numbered X111–X116, built in 1938. X114 destroyed during the Second World War. Remains used to create diesel locomotive 114.
• About 20 Billard railcars were acquired second-hand from various metre gauge railways in France when they closed. They were used as trailers, minus their engines. Many of the Billard railcars that were demoted to trailers have been scrapped.

Billard Trailers

Eight Billard railcar trailers, built 1938.

• CFD Railcars

X2000 destroyed by fire in 1980.

• Chemins de fer de la Corse Crochat Railcars

Two petrol-electric Crochat railcars were in service from 1928 until an accident in 1928 led to their withdrawal.

• Chemins de fer de la Corse De Dion-Bouton Railcars

X158 OC1 series. Ex Chemin de fer de la Baie de Somme, Réseau Breton and Chemin de fer des Côtes-du-Nord, preserved at Langueux, France.

• Chemins de fer de la Corse Renault Railcars

Eight 300 horsepower (220 kW) Renault AHB8 railcars numbered X201 to X209 built in 1949. X202 used as spares source, X203 scrapped in 1980, X205 scrapped in 1983, X207 used as spares source, X208 scrapped in 1967.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Carriages

• Twelve four-wheel carriages built in 1888.
• Thirty four bogie carriages, built between 1888 and 1891.
• Twenty one bogie corridor carriages, built between 1920 and 1932
• Eighteen small baggage vans, built in 1888.
• Eight large baggage vans, built between 1915 and 1927.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Freight Stock

The CFC had over 500 freight wagons. Open wagons were on 10 tonnes capacity. Other wagon types included flat wagons, vans, tarpaulin wagons, tank and hopper wagons, as well as three cranes.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Departmental Stock

• One Campagne inspection vehicle, built in 1932.
• Six Billard inspection vehicles, numbered 741–746, built in 1936.
• Billard railcar, formerly X503, rebodied and used as crew car.
• One inspection vehicle, details unknown.

Chemins de fer de la Corse Route Map

• Calvi
• Bastia
• Tunnel de la Torreta
• Calenzana–Lumio
• Lupino
• Algajola
• Furiani
• L'Île-Rousse
• Biguglia
• Regino
• Borgo
• Belgodère
• Casamozza
• Palasca
• Novella
• Barchetta
• Arena
• Pietralba
• Ponte-Novu
• Folleli
• Ponte-Leccia
• Paduella-Moriani
• Soveria
• Tunnel de San
• Quilico
• Prunete Cervione
• Corte
• Alistro
• Poggio-Riventosa
• Aléria
• Venaco
• Ghisonaccia
• Viaduc du Vecchio
• Solenzara
• Vivario
• Porto-Vecchio
• Tattone
• Vizzavona

 

• Bocognano
• Tavera
• Ucciani
• Carbuccia
• Mezzana
• Caldaniccia
• Ajaccio