The route

The route most holidaymakers would have taken would have started at the interchange station between the main line from Paris, at Quend station. This is about 1 km east of Quend village.

Initially, the route seems to have followed the right hand (North) side of the road leading towards Quend but shortly after the opening was diverted across the fields and onward to Quend.

At Quend, the track ran around the North side of the church and was a true tramway, threading through the streets and then, crossing to the South of the road, heading towards Monchaux. It was here that the line split with the Southern branch, running again on the South side of the road, to the growing resort of Quend-Plage, whilst the Northern branch continued to Fort Mahon.

The branch to Quend-Plage stayed on the South side of the road and passed the Chalet Diana outside Quend-Plage and then passed the carriage sheds and workshops, slightly away from the current road, passing the cafe Billard and finally terminated opposite the Bellevue Hotel near the beach. The precise location of the carriage sheds has, unfortunately, been lost.  A vast development of camping sites now covers that area. Indeed, it's possible that it was removed before the tramway closed once the main station and loco shed was built in Quend-Plage.

The Northern branch to Fort Mahon also stayed on the South of the road and then ran down the centre of the main road in Fort Mahon towards the beach, passing the charcuterie St Antoine before reaching the station building and workshops which were on the south side of the road. The line then continued onwards towards the beach, passing the casino and the hotel de la Tour - both on the north side and lastly the brickworks, which was on the south side.

The ground was generally flat, so no major earthworks were required which, whilst making for lower construction costs, means that today almost ninety years after most of the tramway closed, little remains to be seen.

The original track seems to have been lightweight and prefabricated with steel sleepers and weighed in at 9.5 to 15 kg a metre. The ruling gradient was negligible, being 40mm/m and the curves were 30m radius.