Dépôt-musée de Pont-Érambourg

Om museet

Pont-Érambourg station opened in 1868 under the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest, initially as a simple halt at the point where three communes meet. It was classified as a station in 1880, which allowed it to apply rates for goods and passengers. At its peak it saw more than a dozen goods trains and fifteen passenger trains a day. The SNCF took over its management in 1938; passenger service ended in 1970, and in 1979 the station closed to all traffic.

Since 1999 the association ACF, the Amicale pour la mise en valeur de la ligne Caen-Flers, has maintained the track. It runs vélorail trips of about 13 km return along the Noireau valley, as far as the Gouttes tunnel. In 2006 the Basse-Normandie regional council decided to preserve the line.

The association has also set up a depot museum devoted to the region’s railway heritage. A free exhibition, housed in a postal wagon, can be visited before or after the vélorail trip. During the Journées du patrimoine (Heritage Days), the site also displays historic locomotives and carriages.

Højdepunkter

• Free exhibition on regional railways in a postal wagon
• Former Pont-Érambourg station, opened in 1868
• 13 km return vélorail trip to the Gouttes tunnel
• Bordeaux viaduct and former Berjou station along the route
• Picnic area at the station

Permanent udstilling

• Mini musée du chemin de fer régional – Free exhibition in a postal wagon on the history of the railway in the region and the Caen–Flers line.

Ejer

Association ACF (Amicale pour la mise en valeur de la ligne Caen-Flers)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Der er gratis entré.

The exhibition in the postal wagon is free. The vélorail is paid for; payment on site by card, cash, cheque and holiday vouchers, with online or telephone booking.

Tilgængelighed

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Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

The vélorail is presented as a family activity: two people pedal while the others, children included, are carried along. The postal wagon exhibition is free for everyone.

Transport & parkering

Departure from Pont-Érambourg station, 10 rue de la Gare.

Service & spisesteder

• Restaurant
• Museumsbutik

The “Resto Loco” serves galettes, tartines, crêpes, ice cream and local drinks at lunchtime during school holidays. Picnic tables at the station and near the Bordeaux viaduct.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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