Exhibition of models and miniatures.

Name: Exhibition of models and miniatures.
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Ateliers/dépôt - Gare de Carhaix

Exhibition of railway models and others (boats, trains, cars...), in operation and/ or static, with comments of their achievements by exhibitors.

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Registration

photo personnelle (Ernest MANAC'H)

Exhibition of railway and other models (boats, trains, cars....), in operation and/ or static, with comments of their achievements by the exhibitors.

Types d'événement

Exposition

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

I agree that the image may be freely used, provided that it is attributed to the author by name and shared under the same conditions.

Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

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