Let Us Tell You the Story of the Train in Perche Sarthois Rail Infrastructure of the Past and Present in Perche Sarthois
Villes et Pays d’art et d’histoire Let us tell you the story of the train in Perche Sarthois Rail infrastructure of the past and present in Perche Sarthois Road Main SNCF line Remains visible from public thoroughfares High speed line under construction Station Water tower Mamers - St-Calais Secondary lines Traces of rails Thorigné - Courtalain Bridge Bridge supports Tramways de la Sarthe Remains not visible from public thoroughfares Tourist railways and sites Station Bridge The railway Origins and development Today, it is difficult to imagine 1827. The state encouraged the In the meantime, in 1858, the locally as ligne des ducs (duke’s the immense economic and development of rail transport Compagnie Paris-Orléans line) in reference to the duke social change brought about by to stimulate economic growth opened a line between Le Mans Sosthène II de la Rochefoucauld. the growth of the railways in in rural areas and combat their and Tours. Sarthe being the Owner of the Bonnétable estate, the 19th century. Until then, for isolation. However, it was not doorway to the west, Le Mans mayor and councillor of Sarthe, transport, man had to rely only until the July Monarchy that a rapidly became a major rail the duke was one of the railways on his own force combined with rail network with Paris as a hub junction. Although the main line’s most ardent supporters. that of an animal. In the space officially became an objective. lines in Sarthe were open, three Later on, a tramway network of a few decades, James Watt’s Partnerships were set up important towns, Mamers, La was set up to make travel easier steam machine invention (1769) between the state, landowners Flèche and Saint-Calais did not for all country dwellers.
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