Editing Cambrai (section)

====Railway history====
[[File:Gare de Cambrai 1913.jpg|thumb|right|The {{Interlanguage link multi|Gare de Cambrai-Annexe|fr}} in 1913]]
[[File:Gare cambrésis cambrai.jpg|thumb|right|The Gare du Cambrésis, former head of the line of the [[Chemin de fer du Cambrésis]]]]
[[File:Port de plaisance Cantimpré Cambrai.JPG|thumb|right|The marina of Cantimpré]]

As early as 1833, the municipal council sought passage of a railway line through Cambrai. However, a route through Arras and Douai, to Lille, with a branch to Valenciennes, was preferred in 1845. It remained, therefore, to connect Cambrai to this line, which was done in 1878 by a single, winding line between Cambrai and Douai. Meanwhile, Cambrai had been linked, in 1858, to the Paris-Brussels line by a branch line from [[Busigny]] and joining [[Somain, Nord|Somain]], near Douai.<ref group="b" name="p.150">p.150</ref>

Other railway lines of [[Voie ferrée d'intérêt local|local interest]] saw development in the 19th century, particularly in 1880 the [[Chemin de fer du Cambrésis|Société des Chemin de fer du Cambrésis]] which operated three routes in the Cambrésis between Cambrai, Caudry, Saint-Quentin, Le Cateau and Denain. An agricultural use of Cambrai to Marquion, now off line, was also open in 1898.<ref group="a" name="p.37"/>

Cambrai railway station was also the terminus of a standard gauge secondary route of {{Interlanguage link multi|Compagnie générale de voies ferrées d'intérêt local|fr|3=Compagnie générale de voies ferrées d'intérêt local|lt=CGL/VFIL}} linking [[Marquion]] and [[Boisleux-au-Mont]].