Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn 1.92

The Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn, or Tarn Light Railway, is a narrow-gauge light railway near the village of Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur, in the vicinity of Saint-Sulpice in the department of Tarn, France. It is run as a heritage railway by a French association, the ACOVA incorporated in 1975 and based in Toulouse. It operates on a gauge and the line was reconstructed from 1974 over a length of 3.5km on the trackbed of the former line from La Ramière to Saint-Sulpice which operated only from 11 April 1925, to 20 June 1931.The line starts from the Saint Lieux-lès-Lavaur terminus at the former station ex-TVT and follows the streets of Saint-Lieux till a 132m long viaduct over the river Agout. Then it runs in the Tarn countryside and woods before arriving at the present terminus at les Martels.The ACOVA owns five steam locomotives, among which three are operating and four are considered as Monument historique. One of them is coming from New Caledonia and was originally in the 500mm gauge and the others have been adapted from gauge hardware.