The Train des Mouettes is a tourist train that has been
operating (again) since 1984 on the 21 km of railway between Saujon and La
Tremblade on the Saujon to La Grève line in France. As the only steam railway
in Charente Maritime (Nouvelle Aquitaine), it serves the stations of
Fontbedeau, Mornac-sur-Seudre, Chaillevette, Étaules, and Arvert.
On 25 April 1868, la Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de la Seudre [the Seudre Railway Company] was founded. It would take many years of negotiating, research, fundraising and even a war (1870-71) before the line became operational on 28 August 1875.
The railway has about 60 items of rolling stock, of which 18 are classed as 'Historic Monuments'.
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