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PontAuRail - Plan
PontAuRail is a voluntary association created in 1995 to run trains between Pont-Audemer and Honfleur in France. The group comprises approximately fifty voluntary members, of which twenty are active. An agreement, ''une convention signée'', allows PontAuRail to use the line between Pont-Audemer and Honfleur on request on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank holidays. The trip along the Risle valley lasts fifty-five minutes, including manoeuvers; closing of the semi-automatic level crossings in Pont-Audemer and shunting in Honfleur. Rolling stock PontauRail operates with two French Diesel multiple units, X2426 and X4555. * Railcar X2426 was officially decommissioned on 27 September 1987 in Limoges. Saved from scrapping, it became the property of the Train Touristique du Cotentin until 1995 when it was purchased by the Risle Seine SIVOM to create pleasure railway service between Pont-Audemer and Honfleur. It remained parked in Gare de Carentan for a long time and then was vandalise ...
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PontAuRail is a voluntary association created in 1995 to run trains between Gare de Pont-Audemer, Pont-Audemer and Honfleur Marshalling yard, Honfleur in France. The group comprises approximately fifty voluntary members, of which twenty are active. An agreement, ''une convention signée'', allows PontAuRail to use the line between Pont-Audemer and Honfleur on request on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank holidays. The trip along the Risle valley lasts fifty-five minutes, including manoeuvers; closing of the semi-automatic level crossings in Pont-Audemer and Shunting (rail), shunting in Honfleur. Rolling stock PontauRail operates with two SNCF, French Diesel multiple units, SNCF Class X 2400, X2426 and SNCF Class X 4500, X4555. * Railcar X2426 was officially decommissioned on 27 September 1987 in Limoges. Saved from scrapping, it became the property of the Train Touristique du Cotentin until 1995 when it was purchased by the Risle Seine Syndicat Intercommunal à Vocation Multiple, SIV ...
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Train Touristique Du Cotentin
The Chemin de fer touristique du Cotentin is a heritage railway and voluntary association in Normandy, France. The railway runs between Barneville-Carteret and Portbail on part of the former railway line linking Carentan to Barneville-Carteret in Cotentin. The railway began as the ''Association Tourisme et Chemins de fer de la Manche'' in 1982. The association has a set itself the task of preserving railway heritage in the Cotentin. The association was founded in 1982 as the ''Association pour la Sauvegarde du Chemin de fer Carentan-Carteret'', (ASCCC), which became in 1983, the ''Association pour la Sauvegarde du Chemin de fer Carentan-Carteret et Coutances - Cherbourg'' under pressure of the Cherbourg and Coutances councils. On 14 July 1984, after pressure from several municipalities and inhabitants of the Manche département, the association increased its interest to the preservation of all local railways in the Manche and became ''Association pour les Transports en Commun d ...
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Heritage Railways In France
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Honfleur Marshalling Yard
Honfleur () is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. The people that inhabit Honfleur are called ''Honfleurais.'' It is especially known for its old port, characterized by its houses with slate-covered frontages, painted frequently by artists. There have been many notable artists, including, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and Johan Jongkind, forming the ''école de Honfleur'' (Honfleur school) which contributed to the appearance of the Impressionist movement. The Sainte-Catherine church, which has a bell tower separate from the principal building, is the largest wooden church in France. History The first written record of Honfleur is a reference by Richard III, Duke of Normandy, in 1027. By the middle of the 12th century, the city represented a significant transit point for goods from Rouen to England ...
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Gare De La Rivière Saint-Sauveur
Gare is the word for "station" in French and related languages, commonly meaning railway station Gare can refer to: People * Gare (surname), surname * The Gare Family, fictional characters in the novel '' Wild Geese'' by Martha Ostenso Places * Gare, Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Gare (Gadžin Han), a village situated in Gadžin Han municipality in Serbia * Garé, Hungary * Gare, Luxembourg, neighborhood around the railway station in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg * Gare Loch, an open see loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland * Pompoï-gare, Pompoï-gare is a village in the Pompoï Department of Balé Province in southern Burkina Faso * South Gare, an area of reclaimed land and breakwater on the southern side of the mouth of the River Tees in Redcar and Cleveland, England ** South Gare & Coatham Sands SSSI, Site of Special Scientific Interest ** South Gare Lighthouse, at the end of the South Gare breakwater Transportation ''Gare'' refers to many stations in Francophone and other ...
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Gare De Quetteville
Gare is the word for "station" in French and related languages, commonly meaning railway station Gare can refer to: People * Gare (surname), surname * The Gare Family, fictional characters in the novel '' Wild Geese'' by Martha Ostenso Places * Gare, Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Gare (Gadžin Han), a village situated in Gadžin Han municipality in Serbia * Garé, Hungary * Gare, Luxembourg, neighborhood around the railway station in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg * Gare Loch, an open see loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland * Pompoï-gare, Pompoï-gare is a village in the Pompoï Department of Balé Province in southern Burkina Faso * South Gare, an area of reclaimed land and breakwater on the southern side of the mouth of the River Tees in Redcar and Cleveland, England ** South Gare & Coatham Sands SSSI, Site of Special Scientific Interest ** South Gare Lighthouse, at the end of the South Gare breakwater Transportation ''Gare'' refers to many stations in Francophone and other ...
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Gare De Beuzeville
Gare is the word for "station" in French and related languages, commonly meaning railway station Gare can refer to: People * Gare (surname), surname * The Gare Family, fictional characters in the novel '' Wild Geese'' by Martha Ostenso Places * Gare, Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Gare (Gadžin Han), a village situated in Gadžin Han municipality in Serbia * Garé, Hungary * Gare, Luxembourg, neighborhood around the railway station in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg * Gare Loch, an open see loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland * Pompoï-gare, Pompoï-gare is a village in the Pompoï Department of Balé Province in southern Burkina Faso * South Gare, an area of reclaimed land and breakwater on the southern side of the mouth of the River Tees in Redcar and Cleveland, England ** South Gare & Coatham Sands SSSI, Site of Special Scientific Interest ** South Gare Lighthouse, at the end of the South Gare breakwater Transportation ''Gare'' refers to many stations in Francophone and other ...
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Gare De Saint-Maclou
Gare is the word for "station" in French and related languages, commonly meaning railway station Gare can refer to: People * Gare (surname), surname * The Gare Family, fictional characters in the novel '' Wild Geese'' by Martha Ostenso Places * Gare, Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Gare (Gadžin Han), a village situated in Gadžin Han municipality in Serbia * Garé, Hungary * Gare, Luxembourg, neighborhood around the railway station in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg * Gare Loch, an open see loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland * Pompoï-gare, Pompoï-gare is a village in the Pompoï Department of Balé Province in southern Burkina Faso * South Gare, an area of reclaimed land and breakwater on the southern side of the mouth of the River Tees in Redcar and Cleveland, England ** South Gare & Coatham Sands SSSI, Site of Special Scientific Interest ** South Gare Lighthouse, at the end of the South Gare breakwater Transportation ''Gare'' refers to many stations in Francophone and other ...
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Gare De Toutainvile
Gare is the word for "station" in French and related languages, commonly meaning railway station Gare can refer to: People * Gare (surname), surname * The Gare Family, fictional characters in the novel '' Wild Geese'' by Martha Ostenso Places * Gare, Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Gare (Gadžin Han), a village situated in Gadžin Han municipality in Serbia * Garé, Hungary * Gare, Luxembourg, neighborhood around the railway station in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg * Gare Loch, an open see loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland * Pompoï-gare, Pompoï-gare is a village in the Pompoï Department of Balé Province in southern Burkina Faso * South Gare, an area of reclaimed land and breakwater on the southern side of the mouth of the River Tees in Redcar and Cleveland, England ** South Gare & Coatham Sands SSSI, Site of Special Scientific Interest ** South Gare Lighthouse, at the end of the South Gare breakwater Transportation ''Gare'' refers to many stations in Francophone and other ...
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Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called ''Marseillais''. Marseille is the second most populous city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of . Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over , had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropo ...
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Nevers
Nevers ( , ; la, Noviodunum, later ''Nevirnum'' and ''Nebirnum'') is the prefecture of the Nièvre Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in central France. It was the principal city of the former provinces of France, province of Nivernais. It is south-southeast of Paris. History Nevers first enters written history as Noviodunum, a town held by the Aedui at Ancient Rome, Roman contact. The quantities of medals and other Roman antiquities found on the site indicate the importance of the place, and in 52 BCE, Julius Caesar made Noviodunum, which he describes as in a convenient position on the banks of the Loire, a depot (''B. G.'' vii. 55). There, he had his hostages, corn and military chest, with the money in it allowed him from home for the war, his own and his army's baggage and a great number of horses which had been bought for him in Spain and Italy. After his failure before Gergovia, the Aedui at Noviodunum massacred t ...
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Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropolis of Lyo ...
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