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Decauville

Decauville
Company typePrivate
IndustryTransport
Founded1 January 1957 Edit this on Wikidata
FounderPaul Decauville
Defunct?
FateDefunct
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsRail tracks, sleepers, steam locomotives, coaches

Decauville (French: [dəkovil]) 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.

The first Decauville railway used 400 mm (15+34 in) gauge; Decauville later refined his invention and switched to 500 mm (19+34 in) and 600 mm (1 ft 11+58 in) gauge.


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