The plume of smoke from a steam locomotive, the clatter of rails along a valley, or the pleasure of pedalling at your own pace on a disused railway between viaducts and tunnels: these preserved lines offer a view of the landscape that no road can give.
Twelve tourist trains and rail bikes across France, from the Cévennes to Mont Blanc. An ideal outing in clear weather, often bookable in advance in summer.
Original and fun, the Haut-Morin valley rail-bike at La Ferté-Gaucher is the ideal playful activity to discover the landscapes of the Grand Morin valley, the fauna and flora of the Ferté hinterland and a few unmissable sites, such as the Commanderie de Coutran.
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The Mont Blanc tramway, or TMB, is a rack railway line in the Mont Blanc massif linking the Saint-Gervais SNCF station (altitude 580 m) to the Bionnassay glacier (Nid d'Aigle station (TMB), altitude 2,372 m) in Haute-Savoie.
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You will visit the "Boissets" farm by little train. On site, guided tour to the panorama overlooking the Tarn gorges (500 m drop).
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The Vendée tourist railway is a tourist and heritage railway that has, since 1992, contributed to safeguarding the railway heritage of the Vendée.
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On a rehabilitated century-old railway, climb aboard a revisited "pedalo" and set off to discover the rolling Gers landscapes.
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The Larzac Vélorail overlooks the famous Cernon valley. The century-old railway today offers a superb heritage of railway engineering works with 12 perfectly preserved tunnels and 6 viaducts.
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Discover the Pays de Saint-Loup-du-Gast on a rail-bike running on the disused railway. 6 km route (round trip). Crossing the Rosserie viaduct.
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Today, between Roumazières and Confolens, the old railway lines are used for an original rail-bike ride.
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This line, called "the Dukes' line", was at the end of the nineteenth century the flagship of the departmental-interest railway lines.
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Mind the start – close the doors! A whistle blast, a jet of steam, it is the departure for a 13-kilometre journey into the heart of the Cévennes.
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You are about to enter the Allier Gorges, where no road passes.
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The railway line operated by the Blanc-Argent (French secondary metre-gauge network) lets you discover, in an original way, over 67 kilometres, the landscapes of Sologne and Berry.
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