Month: July 2016

In summer 2016, Brittany remained one of only three regions in France to see local services still worked by single car X2100 units, which were in service alongside the new generation X73500 units on the branch line heading south from Rennes to Chateaubriant.

Weekday services on this pleasantly rural route comprise just three or four round trips, with one  late afternoon working as far south as Retiers. Continue reading “Heritage traction on a Breton branch line”