The Auray–Quiberon line is a single-track,
standard gauge
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ...
French rail line that serves the
Quiberon
Quiberon (; , ) is a commune in the French department of Morbihan, administrative region of Brittany, western France.
It is situated on the southern part of the Quiberon peninsula, the northern part being the commune of Saint-Pierre-Quiberon. It ...
peninsula. It branches off at from the
Savenay–Landerneau line, a radial line south of
Brittany. A draft plan was presented on July 15, 1879, and the
Chemins de fer de l'État (State Railways Administration) began construction. Operations commenced on July 24, 1882, and the line was transferred to the
Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) the following year.
In 1972, passenger service—which had already been discontinued during the winter—was reduced to two daily trains during the summer.
To cope with the chronic congestion of the only road to reach the peninsula of Quiberon from the mainland, the line takes a new start in 1985, with the introduction of single fare shuttles, jointly proposed by the Brittany region and the SNCF as part of the TER Bretagne service. The name of this shuttle service is directly related to traffic jams that trains can avoid: "Corkscrew". This exploitation allows a more consistent service of the peninsula during the two months of the summer season. The rest of the year, a road bus service TIM, organized by the department of Morbihan, allows the links between the stations of Auray and Quiberon .
Railway lines in Brittany
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