At the moment this becomes the home page for these intriguing cut-out cards - but do be aware that Revillon also used the title "Chemin de Fer" for a sectional series, slightly later, which was drawn by Jean Bernard-Aldebert, similar to the card of the travelling fair we featured as our Card of the Day for the 8th of May, 2025
On our card it says the title of the set, and "Collection de 10 Sujets" but this is not entirely correct as though there are ten cards, there are often more than one cut out figure on each card, and they are individually numbered, on the tab at the bottom, as on the list of twenty-five figures which follows, and this corresponds to the plan on the back of all the cards - though it is, of course, entirely up to the owner where they place their models. Then there is a large number on the front of our card, in our case "Serie No. 4", which is the series number, and this appears on all the cards in this series, which are :
- a station (on its own on the card)
- a signal box and two men sitting on a seat (with 10 - a card of two cut outs)
- a locomotive with coal cart (with 16 and 17 - a card of three cut outs)
- a goods carriage (with 25 - a card of two cut-outs)
- a blue topped passenger carriage with doors only at each end (with 18 and 19 - a card of three cut outs)
- a passenger carriage with six doors one open (with 13 and 14 - a card of three cut outs)
- a passenger carriage with six doors two open (with 15 - a card of two cut outs)
- a grey topped passenger carriage with doors only at each end (with 22, 23, and 24 - a card of four cut outs)
- the station master`s cottage (on its own on the card)
- a latticed railing with three people in front and one behind it (with 2 - a card of two cut outs)
- a stationary horse drawn cart with leader and a bicycle (with 12, 20 and 21 - a card of four cut-outs)
- the back of a motor car and a tandem motorbike (4 - with 11, 20, and 21 - a card of four cut-outs)
- a moving horse-drawn cart (with 6 and 14 - a card of three cut outs)
- two people dressed in rural costume (with 6 and 13 - a card of three cut outs)
- a signal arm with a red circular signal (with 7 - a card of two cut-outs)
- an overhead apparatus to fill the steam boiler with water (with 3, 16 and 17 - a card of three cut outs)
- two men and a porter with a flat bed trolley (with 3, and 16 - a card of three cut outs)
- two priests (with 5 and 19 - a card of three cut outs)
- two soldiers in blue with kepi caps (with 5 and 18 - a card of three cut outs)
- a porter with luggage and four passengers (with 11, 12, and 21 - a card of four cut-outs)
- a man, a family with a child, a man with a suitcase on his head (with 11, 12, and 20 - a card of four cut-outs)
- a man bending over suitcases and a standing man (with 8, 23, and 24 - a card of four cut outs)
- a woman with a man carrying a case on his shoulder (with 8, 22, and 24 - a card of four cut outs)
- two men talking (with 8, 22, and 23 - a card of four cut outs)
- an overhead signal gantry (with 4 - a card of two cut-outs)
Also note that the first set in this series is different to the rest as it has no large series number, and it is presumed it was a trial run to see how popular it was. Obviously it was, because they followed it up with Serie No. 2. So at the moment we know of the following sets, which one day, hopefully, will all be represented on this website.
- La Ferme [the farm - not identified as series one anywhere on the card.]
- Le Champ d`Aviation [the airfield]
- L`Ecole [the school],
- Le Chemin de Fer [the railway]
- La Course d`Autos [the motor race]
- La Chasse [the hunt]
- Premiere Traversee du Sahara [first crossing of the Sahara]
- Depart d`un Paquebot [leaving by boat]
- Un Match de Rugby [a rugby match]
- L`Exposition Coloniale [the 1931 Colonial Exhibition, held in Paris]
- Les Regates [the regatta]
- L`Escadre [the Navy]