Guided tour of locomotive 141 TB 424

Name: Visite commentée de la locomotive 141 TB 424
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Ateliers/dépôt - Gare de Carhaix

Guided tour of the steam locomotive 141 TB 424, historic monument, built in 1913 and currently in the winding phase following its 10-year overhaul.

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Ernest Manac'h

Guided tour of the 141 TB 424 steam locomotive, a historic monument built in 1913 and currently in the winding phase following its ten-year overhaul.

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

À propos du lieu

Ateliers/dépôt - Gare de Carhaix

29270 Carhaix-Plouguer

Finistère
Bretagne

The largest metric depot in France, with 6,000 m2 covered, built in the 1890s, it was the main depot of the Breton Network until 1967, when the Network was dismantled. Today, the building is used for the maintenance of railway and road rolling stock. Its aim is to become the heart of the future living museum of the Breton railway network.
Built in the 1890s, the Breton Network had 468 km of lines divided into 5 branches from Carhaix. Passenger and Freight activity, maintenance of rolling stock, railway infrastructure. The Breton Network lines which opened up the Centre Ouest Bretagne also served as test lines for rolling stock before it was put into operation on the SNCF network. From Carhaix, Réseau Breton served the stations of Morlaix (29), Châteaulin (29) Camaret (29) Rosporden (29), Brohinière (35) and Paimpol (22) via Guingamp. At its height, between the two wars, more than 800 people worked there and entire neighborhoods of Carhaix were created by railway workers of the Breton N