A tourist train?
Why talk about a tourist train, which, unfortunately, is often just an activity "for tourists", as they say? What is unusual about it? Well, I'm talking about it because it's the "Bas-Berry tourist train"... with part of its equipment and installations protected as Historic Monuments!
Unusual, isn't it? It is not every day that one has the opportunity to walk in a Historical Monument!
A "metric" track
This rolling Historical Monument uses a "metric" track, that is to say a track with rails only one meter apart. This type of track has allowed a real networking of rural France, from the 1870s, a time that saw the emergence of about 12,500 railway stations, now disappeared. You will find a very interesting study, accompanied by moving photos on the website trainconsultant.com (address of the page at the end of the article).
Authentic trains!
You travel on board a real 1900's steam train, or an equally authentic railcar from the 50's.
All along the 40 kilometers of track, you will discover the Berrichonne countryside. You are in the heart of the Bas-Berry region, its meadows, its woods, its cows! Unique landscapes around Valençay, la Gauterie, Lucay le Male, la Foulquetiere, Ecueillé, Heugnes, Pellevoisin, Argy...
And in Ecueillé, you are in the heart of a star whose branches are called Beauval Zoo, Talleyrand castle, Louis XI castle, Brenne natural park...
The tourist train of Bas-Berry
96 bis, avenue de la gare
36240 Ecueillé
Tel : 02 54 40 23 22
traindubasberry@gmail.com
www.traintouristiquedubasberry.com
https://trainconsultant.com/2020/12/13/
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
(free version)
Click on the image
Click on the image
