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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 gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Lines and stations Legend 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 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+3⁄8 in) railway track in the area around Mansourah in Egypt.

History

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.

The construction of the railway line was managed by the Belgian engineer Jean Jadot (1862–1932). 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.

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

References

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.

External links

• Railway Stations List

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