(rshsdepot) 3. Bretagne, part 3 (Lorient, Quimperle, Port-Louis, Ploemel, Pontivy stations)

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Lorient is further west, Lorient gare, 1939:
http://themasq49.free.fr/index_fichiers/1939_2808GareLorient.jpg
What is that pattern, looks like old smoking pajamas or something.
Here is the map section with Lorient:
http://www.chemin-de-fer.org/trains-nord/cartes-29/29-08.jpg

West a bit more is Quimperle station:
http://elegoff.free.fr/quimperle/images/carte%20postale.jpg
http://elegoff.free.fr/quimperle/images/tn_souvenir.jpg
http://elegoff.free.fr/

Port Louis is on the opposite side of the Marco (?) River from Lorient, at
the end of a branch going down the east side of the river. Here is Port
Louis gare (with French text): http://www.port-louis.org/train.html
By 1923 Port-Louis station was much more grand, La Gare Centrale:
http://barrere.claude.free.fr/maurice/images/old-204-portlouis.jpg
The port of Port Louis:
http://barrere.claude.free.fr/maurice/images/old-216-portlouis.jpg
http://barrere.claude.free.fr/maurice/images/old-213-portlouis.jpg
If you think this was a small town, look at this page:
http://barrere.claude.free.fr/maurice/port-lou.htm

Ploërmel is on a north-south line north from Vannes to Dol, Ploërmel is in
the center, here is the large station:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/breizh.ski-roues/images/Voie%20verte%2056%20Ploermel%20gare.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/breizh.ski-roues/images/VV56%20Gare%20de%20Loyat.JPG
http://www.chemin-de-fer.org/trains-nord/images-g-d-35/ploermel_gare.jpg
http://www.chemin-de-fer.org/trains-nord/images-g-d-35/ploermel_gare_quais2.jpg

Line abandoned:
http://www.chemin-de-fer.org/trains-nord/images-g-d-35/ploermel_sortie_gare_vers_le_sud.jpg

http://www.chemin-de-fer.org/trains-nord/images-g-d-35/ploermel_chemin_pieton.jpg

Ploërmel depot (remember this means work facility, barn, engine house):
http://www.chemin-de-fer.org/trains-nord/images-g-d-35/ploermel_cidrerie.jpg
very nice:
http://www.chemin-de-fer.org/trains-nord/images-g-d-35/ploermel_depot.jpg

Map section with Pontivy, black lines are railways:
http://www.chemin-de-fer.org/trains-nord/cartes-29/29-07.jpg
Pontivy is in the center of another north-south line north of Vannes.
Pontivy station (1864):
http://www.lesgares.com/typologie/ouest/gare_ouest/photo_g/pontivy01.jpg
Originally Napoleanville:
http://www.lesgares.com/typologie/ouest/gare_ouest/photo_g/pontivy02.jpg
Le Petite Gare de Pontivy: http://www.ibretagne.net/FR/OBJ/MEM01052.html



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