Decauville was a manufacturing company which was founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922), a French pioneer in industrial railways. Decauville's major innovation was the use of ready-made sections of light, narrow gauge track fastened to steel sleepers; this track was portable and could be disassembled and transported very easily.
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Paul Decauville, founder
Decauville track and flat wagon in the Maginot Line in the French Alps
Decauville wagons were used during construction of the Atlantic Wall fortifications in the 1940s.
An industrial railway is a type of railway that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics, or military site. In regions of the world influenced by British railway culture and management practices, they are often referred to as tramways. Industrial railways may connect the site to public freight networks through sidings, or may be isolated or located entirely within a served property.
Two Sydney Coal Railway GP38-2 locomotives leave the Lingan Generating Station after unloading coal in Nova Scotia.
Russian spacecraft transported to the launch pad by the Baikonur intra-spaceport railway.
An SW1500 hauls NASA equipment cars along the NASA Railroad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
A display of a narrow gauge industrial sand train at Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway.
