Technical guides for tourist and heritage railways and rail bikes
Methodological guide for the promotion of French metre-gauge railway lines: Tourist and heritage trains, rail bikes and greenways - key steps
This guide includes recommendations for the administrative steps that need to be taken to create a tourist or heritage railway, a rail bike business or develop a greenway.
Technical guide for rail tracks adjoining other roads/tracks
The purpose of this technical guide is to define the conditions for protecting tourist and heritage train tracks or rail bike tracks with respect to adjacent or overlapping tracks/roads used for another type of traffic.
Download the Technical guide for tracks adjoining other roads/tracks (link to Balise / only available in French)
Technical guide for stopping devices for rail bike operations
This technical guide specifies the methods for the design and installation of stopping devices for rail bikes recommended by the technical standard published by STRMTG for the construction and operating safety of rail bikes.
Download the Technical Guide for stopping devices for rail bike operations (link to Balise / only available in French)
Technical guide for the operating safety of steam locomotives
This technical guide explains the best practices for “steam” operation of tourist and heritage railways and formalises them while respecting the particularities of each network with regard to the rolling stock, gauge, operating conditions, etc.
Download the Technical guide for the operating safety of steam locomotives (link to Balise / only available in French)
Technical Guide for the operating safety of tourist and heritage railway level crossings
The purpose of this technical guide is to define the safety objectives applicable to control systems for closing and reopening level crossings on tourist and heritage railways.
Technical guide for the installation of safety rails in exposed areas
The purpose of this technical guide is to identify the exposed areas of certain tourist and heritage railway lines. It specifies the situations that require the installation of safety rails.
Download the Technical guide for the installation of safety rails in exposed areas (link to Balise / only available in French)