Train Touristique du Cotentin

Le Train Touristique du Cotentin (TTC ), also Train de la Côte des Isles (French for Inselküstenzug ), is a tourist train on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy in France.

It is a powered rail cars and complete sets from the 1930s route that connects two of the Manche western coastal towns of Cotentin, Barneville- Carteret and Portbail each other in the department. You across the breakpoints Saint -Jean de la Rivière and Saint -Georges de la Rivière by hedged farmland, dunes and fields all along the coast opposite the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Alderney. The single track is nine kilometers long and not electrified. Trains only run in the summer. During the week the schedule is tailored to the market days in Portbail and Carteret.

History

The Train Touristique du Cotentin driving on a stretch of the historic rail link Carentan -Carteret. This railway line to standard gauge allowed a crossing of the Cotentin peninsula from east to west, linking the railway lines from Cherbourg to Caen (or Paris, Gare Saint- Lazare ) in the east and from Cherbourg on Sottevast Coutances, in the west of the peninsula.

The route Carteret Portbail is operated by the Association Tourisme et Chemins de fer de la Manche ( ATCM ), which was founded in 1982 as Association pour la sauvegarde du Chemin de fer Carentan -Carteret ( Association for the Preservation of the railway Carentan -Carteret ).

21 December 1988 to 30 June 1994, this association of volunteers and railway enthusiasts could with the support of local authorities and the Train Touristique du Cotentin on a 10 km stretch between Carentan and Baupte with rail buses SNCF from the 1950s such as the X 3825 the X operate in 2426. After the final adjustment of these eastern leg of the TTC the X in 2426 was sold to the PontAuRail, a similar company in the Haute -Normandie, but in 2007 also stopped running their route. The X 3825 came to Quercyrail in the Pyrenees, which since 2004 also could not perform any more trips.

On June 23, 1990, the western section between Barneville- Carteret and Portbail was opened as a tourist train. Because of the drive along the picturesque canal coast this route could be preserved for tourism. The ACTM has on this route on a locomotive of type BB 63069 with the original paint ( green with yellow stripe) and three passenger coaches of the series Bruhat 1930 S.

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