What most people would call a narrow gauge steam railway, these types of scene were common at one time in France (see other posts).
Ternuay was on one of a system of metre-gauge lines operated by Les chemins de fer vicinaux de Haute-Saône (CFV), a "réseau ferroviaire départemental".
The system had an aggregate length of nearly 470 km in the département of Haute-Saône, but extended also into the neighbouring départements of Jura, Doubs and Vosges, taking its total length to more than 520 km.
The local network complemented the railway services of the big companies, the Est and the PLM. But road transport was making its presence in the region, as everywhere else, by the 1930s. The section in the Jura serving Dole was closed at the end of 1933, the precursor of the rest of the system being given Steven Joyce style treatment in 1938.
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