The Tramway at Bourron (French Réseau des Sablières de Bourron au Canal du Loing) was a 6 km (3.7 mi) long 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) gauge railway that ran from the sand pits at Bourron-Marlotte via the Bourron-Marlotte – Grez railway station to the Canal du Loing opposite to Montcourt-Fromonville in France.
[1] The Société des Sandlières de Bourron was founded in 1911 to exploit the Bourron sand pits, located in the Forest of Fontainebleau, west of the village of Bourron-Marlotte and north of the Bourron-Marlotte – Grez railway station.
Very high quality quartz glass can be produced from the dazzling white sand mined in the Arrondissement of Fontainebleau.
[2][Note 1][3][Note 2] Shortly after the company was founded, the narrow-gauge line was built from the sand pit with a bridge over the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge railway tracks of the PLM to its station.
The line was extended in 1913 over an iron truss bridge to the Canal du Loing near Montcourt-Fromonville, where bulk goods could be transported more cheaply than by rail.