Sunday, July 10, 2011

by State railway to the most beautiful beach of Europe

Well, that was the claim of this poster promoting train travel by the Chemins de Fer de l'Etat to Les Sables d'Olonne on the French Atlantic coast from about a century ago, and you could do the trip with a "direct trajectory from Paris in 7 hours without changing vehicle". Nowadays you can get a direct TGV there from Paris-Montparnasse that does the trip in half that time. Electric tramways are listed on the poster as one of the attractions.

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