22nd September 2009
The 1909 built no 3714 stands at Le Crotoy with the 1045 train for
St.Valery-sur-Somme.
3714 brings the train into Noyelles-sur-Mer station where it will
run around.
Taking water in the headshunt at Noyelles-sur-Mer.
SNCF trains also call here with destinations of Calais, Boulogne,
Abbeville and Paris.
After taking on water the loco couples up for the continued journey
to St.Valery.
St.Valery Port station on the quayside where the loco is detached
and it runs onto the depot at St.Valery Canal.
The return journey to Le Crotoy at 1400 brings a fresh loco to Port
station - No 1 a 1906 loco a 2-6-0 Corpet Louvet.
No 1 detaches at Noyelles-sur-Mer to take water and run round. The
SNCF line is behind the green fence.
The train seen across the fields from the Le Crotoy to Noyelles
road.
Final train of the day pictured near Morlay in low sunlight running
bunker first..
..it crosses an automatic half barrier crossing and continues towards
Le Crotoy.