Heritage route
Train à Vapeur des Cévennes
Anduze → Saint-Jean-du-Gard · France
Train à Vapeur des Cévennes in pictures
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- Distance
- 14 km
- Fastest time
- 40 min
- Average speed
- 21 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- CITEV
- Train
- Steam 140 C + open coaches
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1909
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Steam between Anduze and Saint-Jean-du-Gard: across the Gardon on four viaducts, past the giant bamboo of Prafrance — 40 open-window minutes in the Cévennes.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 39 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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