Train des Pignes to Le Fugeret Spring Festival

The 2016 season for Train des Pignes à Vapeur started on May 8 this year, as previous years with a journey extended to Le Fugeret and its village Spring Festival.

Train des Merveilles - Retro 2016 - Train of Marvels

Train des Merveilles - Retro - arrives in Breil-sur-Roya

This year's Train des Merveilles - Retro, the railway journey with ATTCV railcar Caravelle X 4567 between Toulon and Tende took place on Saturday 14th May.

Brignoles Train Festival 2016

The Brignoles station's yard was the central point for the ATTCV 15 year anniversary celebrations on Saturday and Sunday 23rd and 24th April 2016.

The yard was used to exhibit a part of the association's set of railway vehicles collected since its creation in 1994: railcars, trailers, locomotives, passenger carriages, goods wagons, MoW vehicles ...

In addition to these rail vehicles a few road vehicles belonging to the other associations were also on display.

Please enjoy viewing some photos from the exhibition.

Caravelle Inaugurates Line Extension Project Brignoles - Saint-Maximin

The former Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume station will become the western terminal of the Carnoules - Brignoles - Saint-Maximin tourist line

The non-profit heritage railway association ATTCV, created by a group of voluntaries in 1994, started on August 19, 2001, a tourist passenger service between Carnoules and Brignoles on the Carnoules - Gardanne railway line, using its only railcar at the time, the Picasso. Since then the association has maintained a railcar service from April to November every year. And has drastically increased its collection of railway vehicles.

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of this inauguration train, the ATTCV arranged during two days - Saturday and Sunday 23rd and 24th April - an event in and around Brignoles station.

Five minutes at Villars-sur-Var station

It's a calm, sunny Sunday in early April in Villars-sur-Var. Spring is arriving.
It's really calm. Not a single person in view. The restaurant is closed.
The sound of an approaching railcar increases ...

Train du Centre Var - ATTCV starts 2016 traffic season in spring colours

X 2204 enters a Carnoules-les-Platanes station filled with flowers

Sunday April 3 is the first day this year 2016 with regular tourist traffic between Carnoules-les-Platanes and Brignoles. Railcar X 2204 in its original colours was selected for this introductory journey, leaving Carnoules-les-Platanes with passengers at 15.00. Some photos below from the journey.

Train des Pignes (GECP) - Timetable 2016

Circulation of steam trains in 2016 between Puget-Théniers and Annot will take place on the following dates

Train du Centre Var (ATTCV) - Timetable 2016

The timetable for circulations of ATTCV railcars in 2016 between Carnoules and Brignoles is the following

Picasso's faulty engine removed

A team of ATTCV members undertook last Friday of January the task of removing the faulty engine from the association's railcar Picasso X 3976, as a first step in the engine's replacement. The replacement engine has already been acquired and is on site.

La Portuguese moving with steam

The GECP Mallet steam locomotive E 211 moving with a good fire in the firebox will under suitable weather conditions create very nice clouds of mostly steam but also some smoke. The post presents photos from various locations, during a regular passenger trip from Puget-Théniers to Annot.