Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de Grande Banlieue
Compagnie des chemins de fer de Grande Banlieue or CGB, was a railway company in the western suburban region of Paris, France, in the former département of Seine-et-Oise.
Despite efforts by the company, many of its lines never became profitable. It is the mass use of the automobile that gave the final blow to the CGB, buses took the passengers away from the lines onto irregular and non-direct bus lines. The tramway to Les Halles in Paris closed but the rails remained, plans were to run the trains from Pontoise via Poissy to Paris but residents close to Place de l'Étoile were against it, complaining about the noise of trains at night. Trains ran until 1933.
Le tacot Pontoise-Poissy
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Pont_de_la_Rue_de_la_Vall%C3%A9e_-_Jouy-le-Moutier_03-03-06.jpg/250px-Pont_de_la_Rue_de_la_Vall%C3%A9e_-_Jouy-le-Moutier_03-03-06.jpg)
In 1912 was built a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Passenger traffic was never the line's forte so the company tried to generate freight traffic to Paris. Vegetable farmers (maraîchers) transported their stock to Les Halles in Paris by connecting services.
Car and lorry transported killed the non-profitable line and it closed during 1929.
Line openings
Opened | Section | Length (km) | Closed |
Versailles - Magny-en-Vexin / Pontoise
| |||
1913 | Versailles - Noisy-le-Roi
|
7 | 1938 |
1913 | Noisy-le-Roi - Bouafle | 31 | 1944 |
1912 | Bouafle - Les Mureaux | 4 | 1948 |
1912 | Les Mureaux - Meulan | 1 | 1944 |
1913 | Meulan - Sagy | 7 | 1947 |
1913 | Sagy - Magny-en-Vexin | 20 | 1949 |
1912 | Pontoise
|
15 | 1949 |
Pontoise - Poissy | |||
1912 | Pontoise) - Maurecourt
|
7 | 1939 |
1912 | Poissy
|
9 | 1934 |
Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Bouafle | |||
1912 | Saint-Germain-Bertaux - Saint-Germain-Péreire | 3 | 1937 |
1912 | St Germain-Péreire - Bouafle | 16 | 1948 |
Arpajon - Corbeil | |||
1911 | Arpajon - Étampes-Jeu-de-Paume | 30 | 1948 |
1912 | Étampes-Jeu-de-Paume - Maisse | 21 | 1949 |
1912 | Maisse - Milly-la-Forêt | 7 | 1953 |
1912 | Milly-la-Forêt - Corbeil-Essonnes | 26 | 1949 |
1912 | Étampes-Jeu-de-Paume - Saint-Martin | 2 | 1914 |
1921 | Bouville - La Ferté-Alais | 9 | 1948 |
Network
Most of the CGB's lines connected with main lines owned by
External links