Presentation of tourist railway equipment and traffic in Pontivy

Name: Presentation of tourist railway equipment and traffic in Pontivy
Start: 2021-09-19T07:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Gare de Pontivy

Shuttles from Pontivy station with historic carriages restored by the association CFCB (Chemins de Fer du Centre-Bretagne).

Sunday 19 September 2021, 07:00, 09:00Passed

Conditions

Departures every 30mn/ Online reservation for trains.

Registration

Philippe Lagathu

Trains will leave every 30 minutes from Pontivy for a short getaway along the Blavet. The equipment will be visible in the station between two trains. Explanations will be given by the members of the association.

About the location

Gare de Pontivy

Gare, Place Alfred Brard 56300 Pontivy

Morbihan
Bretagne

The station of Pontivy, in the Breton railway history, retains a place of its own and poses, by the singularity of its genesis, the sensitive question of the geographical opening up of Brittany. An intermediate stage on the Saint-Brieuc / Auray median axis, a “frontier” station between the Compagnie d'Orléans and the Réseau de l'Ouest, its facilities have been adapted to the functions of this establishment, which was born under the name of Napoléonville. The building, consisting of a central pavilion with 5 opening bays and flanked by 2 low wings, consists of a second-class station of the Compagnie d'Orléans. It is built of rubble masonry with granite bedrock. An aesthetic effect, desired by the company’s architects, is sought by an alternation of red (brick) and white (tuffeau) horizontal bands.