PontAuRail

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PontAuRail was a

. The group comprised approximately fifty voluntary members, of which twenty were active. An agreement, une convention signée, allowed PontAuRail to use the line between Pont-Audemer and Honfleur on request on Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays.

The trip along the Risle valley lasted fifty-five minutes, including manoeuvres; closing of the semi-automatic level crossings in Pont-Audemer and shunting in Honfleur.

The PontAuRail group was disbanded in 2006 and the railway line was abandoned.

Rolling stock

Pont-Audemer

.

PontauRail operated with two ex-

.

• Railcar X2426 was officially decommissioned on 27 September 1987 in Limoges. Saved from scrapping, it became the property of the
  Gare de Pont-Audemer
  . It was then restored carefully and repainted in its original livery. X2426 became the property of PontAuRail following the dismantling of the SIVOM.
• DMU X4555 was entrusted to PontAuRail by the SNCF in 2004. X4555 was built in 1965 and allocated to Lyon Vaise on 10 November 1965. It was then moved to Nevers on 23 May 1971 then to Marseille on 9 June 1971 and finally to Longueau on 30 September 1982. It was then decommissioned in September 2003. It ran services in 2005 in replacement of the X2426, which was less powerful than the X4555.

Stations

• Pont-Audemer
• Toutainville
• Saint-Maclou
• Beuzeville
• Quetteville
• La Rivière Saint-Sauveur
• Honfleur

External links

• (in French) PontAuRail