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Friday 20 September 2019, 14:00Passed
Conditions
Free admission
September 2019
Friday 20
14:00 - 16:00

Paris Gare de Lyon

Place Louis-Armand 75012 Paris
  • Paris
  • Île-de-France

Welcome aboard the train of heritage SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY)

Discover all diversity of the train of heritage SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY) in a RAPID-TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEM not as others.
Friday 20 September 2019, 14:00Passed
Conditions
Free admission
SNCF

A TRAIN CAN HIDE FROM IT OTHER ONE
For the edition(publishing) 2019 of European Heritage Days, the SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY) stages its heritage in an unpublished way and in a peculiar space. It is on rails, in a ream(train) of the line D, that she(it) is going to transport her(its) historic treasures. Thousands of daily travellers are going so to discover his(her,its) collections across a travelling exhibition(exposure) established(constituted) by hundred of film-coated decorations(sets). Decorative vintage tourist posters, photos of archives, plans and architects' drawings, art in station, hundred-year-old bridges(decks) and viaduct, iconic objects and mythical trains are going to take a seat(take place) inside the ream(train).
This train not as others will be compound(made up) of 5 cars, with which the route(course) illustrates wealth and diversity of heritage SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY). The car 1 is a trompe l'oeil(window-dressing) reconstruction of the refined universe of the Orient-Express, one of the jewels of its collection of historic materials(equipments). Cars 2 and 3 are devoted to its other mythical trains, of the vapour in iconic orange ream(train) TGVS which redraw the technical and human adventure of railroads. The car 4 is an ode in the wealth of the vintage advertising posters scooped(drawn) out from the Archives Collections of the SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY). In the car 5, devoted to architecture, the travellers can contemplate the dizzy glass roofs and the diversity of the decorative details of the stations of France.
With the train of heritage, the present SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY) its rich collections in an unpublished way and offers to the travellers an unexpected meeting of its history(story).
The visitors will be able to visit this train customised in preview, Station of Paris-Lyons on September 20th from 14 h till 16 h, before it leaves living then his life of travelers' train and his meeting with public every day on the line D.

About the location

Paris Gare de Lyon
Place Louis-Armand 75012 Paris
  • Paris
  • Île-de-France
Tags
Édifice industriel, scientifique et technique
Access
Metro Gare de Lyon