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Chemins de fer de la Basse-Egypte

Coordinates: 31°00′58″N 31°23′35″E / 31.016088°N 31.393039°E / 31.016088; 31.393039
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Chemins de Fer de la Basse-Egypte
Steam locomotive No 6
(Tubize's serial No 1067 of 1896)
Map of the railway lines
Technical
Track gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in)
Lines and stations[1]

Damiette
Mataria
Shora
Hawata
El-Enanieh
Menzaleh
Horani
Bousserate
Ebadia
Gamalia
Faraskur
Kafr-el-Guédid
Kafr-el-Arab
Mit-Salsil
Charabasse
Kordi
Barachieh
Mit-Komus
Dakahla
Kafr-Allam
Serow
Mit-Assam
Zarka
Tahry
Mehallet Khaled Aballa
Bagalat
Cherimssah
Mit-Tamama
Mit-el-Nasr
Mit-Khou-Moumen
Boussate
Achmoun-el-Rouman
Mit-Charaf
Mehallet Ingang
Néghir
Kafr-Abou-Nasser
Dekernés(en)
Taranis
Adly Pasha (Karam)
Mersa
Badawy
El-Fouadieh (Mit-Farés)
Mit-Dafer
Mit-Mahmoud
Kafr Badawy
Ghézireh
Tanah
Mehallet Damana
Baramoun
Khaligue
Halte de Beddine decommissioned 1916
Mit Aly
Khyaria
Salamoun-el-Komache
Sursouck
Mansourah
Mit-Sarem
Bark-el-Ez (Bark-Naks)
Godeida
Tilbana
Manchieh-Battache
Kafr-el-Amir Adalla
Tumay
Bedda-Ghourour
Om-el-Diab
Sadaka
Awlad Sakr
Zawar
Hebash
Soufia
Hanout
Abdalla Bey
Chit-el-Hawa
Kafr Hadidi
Singaha Halte
Singaha
Kafr Sakr

The Chemins de fer de la Basse-Egypte built and operated a network of up to seven lines of metre-gauge (1,000 mm, 3 ft 3+38 in) railway track in the area around Mansourah in Egypt.

History

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The Chemins de Fer de la Basse-Egypte were founded on 26 January 1896 by the Belgian baron Édouard Empain (born 1852; died 1929) as a PLC.[2][3]

The construction of the railway line was managed by the Belgian engineer Jean Jadot (1862–1932).[4] The main line connected Mansourah (on the Nile river) to Matarieh (on the far side of Lake Manzala from Port Said).

The turnover increased from £E 26,199 in 1904, over £E 29,872 in £1905, E 32,122 in 1906 to £E 36,740 in 1907. Subsequently, it decreased to £E 35,760 in 1908 and £E 35,184 in 1909.[5]

In 1936, the company owned 22 locomotives, 94 coaches and 367 goods wagons.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Jim Fergusson: Egypt light railways - Passenger stations and stops.
  2. ^ Samir Saul: La France et l'Égypte de 1882 à 1914: Intérêts économiques et implications politiques. Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, 2013. See also OpenEdition Books.
  3. ^ Agnieszka Dobrowolska und Jarosław Dobrowolski: Heliopolis: Rebirth of the City of the Sun. American Univ in Cairo Press, 2006. Page 41.
  4. ^ Dieter Brötel: Frankreich im fernen Osten: imperialistische Expansion in Siam und Malaya, Laos und China, 1880-1904. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. Page 811.
  5. ^ Mina Gerges Matta: The cultural struggle and the British experience in Egypt as a turning point of Egypt’s transformation: A cosmopolitan study of the British perspective in Egypt 1882-1914. 9 December 2012.
  6. ^ World Survey of Foreign Railways. Transportation Division, Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Washington D.C. 1936. p. 152.
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