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Établissements Billard

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A Billard draisine, once circulating on the Réseau Breton and preserved by the ACFCdN.
Share of the Anciens Etablissements Billard & Cie, issued 4. July 1928

Établissements Billard was a French railway rolling stock construction company founded in 1920 and based in Tours. It specialised in light railbuses and metre gauge and narrow gauge rolling stock. The business ceased trading in 1956 and later became Socofer.

Production

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Draisines

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  • Draisines : These worked on different VFILs, and for the "Big Companies" which became the SNCF.

Locomotives

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Billard Locomotive Y 7200
  • T50
  • T75D
  • T75P
  • T75G

These were designed for the French Military Railway. They were used, among other things, to service the Maginot Line.

Railbuses

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Billard railbus N° 314, type A 80D, from the Chemin de fer du Vivarais

Railbuses for numerous French VFIPs (secondary railways)

Several European networks

A Billard train for the Diakofto railway (Greece), made up of two cars with a motor van containing a generator to power the traction motors.
  • In Greece
  • In Spain
    • A Micheline was built in the 1930s for the PO
    • Three buses with bogies on a wide chassis worked on the Nord-Est.
    • A series of railbuses with two axles were built for the CFD and the SNCF in 1949 and 1950
    • A series of FNC railbuses were deployed by the SNCF

The solidity of the stock, and the simplicity of construction, means that many Billard engines are still working today.

Preserved Billard rolling stock

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Locomotives

type T 50

type T 75, in several variants (with the series prototype, and some military examples) on the Tacot des Lacs, at the Train Touristique de Saint Trojan and later at APPEVA.

type T 100,

Railcars

Meter gauge

type A 150D

  • X153, Portes les Valence (bespoke).

type A 150D

type A 80D

type A 150D2 Articulated

Trailer R 210

Standard gauge type A 75D

Rebuilt and modernised vehicles

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Trailing car X 1337 of the Chemins De Fer de Provence, rebuilt by Établissements Garnéro
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  • Railbus n° 212 (metre gauge) of the Chemins de Fer de Provence line at the Nice terminus, July 1983.
    Railbus n° 212 (metre gauge) of the Chemins de Fer de Provence line at the Nice terminus, July 1983.
  • Billard Draisine, preserved at the Belgian "Dendermonde - Puurs"
    Billard Draisine, preserved at the Belgian "Dendermonde - Puurs"
  • Locomotive type T75G N°232 preserved at the APPEVA museum (Chemin de fer de la Haute Somme), narrow gauge of 0.6 m (2 ft 0 in)
    Locomotive type T75G N°232 preserved at the APPEVA museum (Chemin de fer de la Haute Somme), narrow gauge of 0.6 m (2 ft 0 in)
  • Railcar 214 preserved by the Chemin de fer du Vivarais, typical of many French secondary railways
    Railcar 214 preserved by the Chemin de fer du Vivarais, typical of many French secondary railways
  • Trailing car XRD 242 from the Chemins de Fer Corse.
    Trailing car XRD 242 from the Chemins de Fer Corse.

Notes

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Sources

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  • Riffaud, Jean-Claude (1982–1984). "Les automotrice Billard". Magazine des tramways à vapeur et des secondaires ("Steam tramways and secondary railways") (in French). 24.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Jean-Pierre Crozet (2008). "Les autorails Billard-Soulé". Le chemin de fer franco-éthiopien de Djibouti à Addis-Abeba de 1900 à 1980 (in French). Archived from the original on 1 January 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
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