Explore two forts linked by a vintage train

Name: Explore two forts linked by a vintage train
Start: 2024-09-21T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-22T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Fort

Discover the Fort d'Uxegney and the Fort de Bois l'Abbé at the same time through the Train des Forts, a 1915 steam locomotive and its military wagons from the First World War.

21 and 22 SeptemberPassed

Conditions

A single reduced rate is set up including visits to the two forts and return by train: adult 10 €, children from 7 to 14 years: 5 €, less than 7 years: free

Discover the Fort d'Uxegney and the Fort de Bois l'Abbé simultaneously through the Train des Forts, a 1915 steam locomotive and its First World War military wagons. These forts offer you an immersion into more than 40 years of evolution of French fortification and technology. Explore the defences put in place before the First World War and immerse yourself in the life of the soldiers within the forts. Discover the rooms, the kitchens and a large bread oven.
Fort of Uxegney: Guided tours of 1h30, departure every 30 minutes from 10am in the morning. Fort de Bois l'Abbé: Accessible in the afternoon, after a short 10-minute train ride. The tours are organized according to the arrivals of the train, which leaves every 30 minutes. The Fort Train will be the only means of access to the Fort de Bois l'Abbé, the parking and the reception of visitors taking place at the Fort d'Uxegney.

About the location

Fort

Rue des Forts, 88390 Uxegney

Vosges
Grand Est

Edifiés between 1882 and 1885, the forts of Uxegney and of Drink Him(Her,It) Abbot were important elements of the Place(Square) of Epinal. This one served as fulcrum(support) in the strengthened system the set up by the general Séré of Rivers, from Belfort to Epinal and from Toul to Verdun, after the war of 1870 and the annexation of Alsace and of Moselle by Germany. These two works patiently revamped since 1989 by the volunteers of the association ARFUPE, are returned accessible(approachable) to the visitors and registered on the additional inventory of historic monuments all over their exceptional state of preservation today. The fort of Uxegney, built in masonry, then reinforced concrete(watertight), lives(remains) one of the very rare examples of hardly updating before 1914, stayed undamaged. In the labyrinth of the underground galleries, it is possible to discover a large number of restored elements (turrets of artillery, pieces of ordnance in situation, barracks, cooking(kitchen), electrical factory, etc), as well as the unique(only) copy in working order of a turret with model eclipse Rascal for a standard(cannon) of 155mm, colossal 250 ton mechanics was installed(settled) in 1912\. A route(course) on the tops of work révèlera you the armoured domes of turrets and of monitoring centres(observatories), as well as a large landscape. Having located in a little more than a kilometre in the East, and connected(bound) with his neighbour by a section of the old(former) military railway rebuilt by the association, the wooden fort the Abbot was never reinforced, nor updated as that of Uxegney and keeps(preserves) its aspect of origin in masonry.