The Essential Guide to French Heritage and Tourist Railways-Merv

This guide is intended not only to appeal to railway enthusiasts but to those holidaymakers and travellers, francophiles perhaps, who love France and wish to see this beautiful country from a different perspective. The book has identified a total of 160 locations where heritage and tourist railway activity can be found. In summary, identified in these pages is a collection of 81 heritage and/or tourist railways. Of these, the situation at the end of 2005 was that 71 are still active, four have temporarily (hopefully!) suspended their operations, a further four are active development projects and not yet fully operational and, finally, there are two railways, one of which straddles the border between France and Luxembourg and the other very close to it just inside Luxembourg. The latter, whilst obviously not in France, is so close to the border and is just too good to miss, hence its inclusion.\nAlso listed are 19 of the most scenic TER-SNCF railway routes and 24 museums, one of whichs