Chemins de Fer de la Basse-Egypte
Steam locomotive No 6 (Tubize's serial No 1067 of 1896) Map of the railway lines
Technical
Track gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Lines and stations[1] Legend Damiette Mataria Shora Hawata El-Enanieh Menzaleh Horani Bousserate Ebadia Gamalia Faraskur Kafr-el-Guédid Kafr-el-Arab Mit-Salsil Charabasse Kordi Barachieh Mit-Komus Dakahla Kafr-Allam Serow Mit-Assam Zarka Tahry Mehallet Khaled Aballa Bagalat Cherimssah Mit-Tamama Mit-el-Nasr Mit-Khou-Moumen Boussate Achmoun-el-Rouman Mit-Charaf Mehallet Ingang Néghir Kafr-Abou-Nasser Dekernés(en) Taranis Adly Pasha (Karam) Mersa Badawy El-Fouadieh (Mit-Farés) Mit-Dafer Mit-Mahmoud Kafr Badawy Ghézireh Tanah Mehallet Damana Baramoun Khaligue Halte de Beddine decommissioned 1916 Mit Aly Khyaria Salamoun-el-Komache Sursouck Mansourah Mit-Sarem Bark-el-Ez (Bark-Naks) Godeida Tilbana Manchieh-Battache Kafr-el-Amir Adalla Tumay Bedda-Ghourour Om-el-Diab Sadaka Awlad Sakr Zawar Hebash Soufia Hanout Abdalla Bey Chit-el-Hawa Kafr Hadidi Singaha Halte Singaha Kafr Sakr

The Chemins de fer de la Basse-Egypte built and operated a network of up to seven lines of metre-gauge (1,000 mm, 3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) railway track in the area around Mansourah in Egypt.

The Chemins de Fer de la Basse-Egypte were founded on 26 January 1896 by the Belgian baron Édouard Empain (born 1852; died 1929) as a PLC.^[2][3]

The construction of the railway line was managed by the Belgian engineer Jean Jadot (1862–1932).^[4] The main line connected Mansourah (on the Nile river) to Matarieh (on the far side of Lake Manzala from Port Said).

The turnover increased from £E 26,199 in 1904, over £E 29,872 in £1905, E 32,122 in 1906 to £E 36,740 in 1907. Subsequently, it decreased to £E 35,760 in 1908 and £E 35,184 in 1909.^[5]

In 1936, the company owned 22 locomotives, 94 coaches and 367 goods wagons.^[6]

• Railway Stations List

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