Tourist and Minor Railways

Pays de la Loire

Train of the Chemin de Fer de la Vendée at Mortagne-sur-Sèvre headed by locomotive 030 T 6,
built in 1948 for Houillères du Bassin du Nord et du Pas de Calais

Ø year round service; ☼ seasonal (mainly summer); Δ seasonal (mainly winter); § regular service trains on lines of special tourist interest
V (vapeur) steam locomotives; D diesel locomotives; A (autorails) diesel railcars; E electric
N standard gauge (1435mm); M metre gauge (1000mm); E other narrow gauge (E60 600mm, E50 500mm, ...)
R with rack throughout, r with rack sections

Chemin de Fer Touristique de la Sarthe

☼VAN Connerré-Beillé to Bonnétable (17km). In addition to regular services, trains may be chartered (Site in French)

Chemin de Fer de la Vendée

☼VAN Mortagne-sur-Sèvre to Les Herbiers (22km). A dining car is provided on some services, for which advance reservation is essential (Site in French)

La Mine Bleue

☼E?; Funicular museum of slate mining at Noyant-la-Gravoyère with a narrow gauge underground railway, connected to the surface by a 160m funicular (Site in French, contains few details of railway)

Muséotrain

☼DE60 Semur-en-Vallon, village to railway museum (3km) (Site in French)

Le Tortillard

☼DE60 from the Parc de Pierre Brune (Mervent), a 2.5km line through the forest of Mervent, with steam outline diesel locomotives (Site in French, intro page takes a long time to load)

Le Transpapéa

☼DE40 in the Wild West area of the Papéa Parc (on the outskirts of Le Mans), a 2.5km miniature line with steam outline diesel locomotives (Site in French)

Vélorails

Vélorail Commequiers

☼ Commequiers to Coëx (10km)

Vélo-rail de Saint Loup du Gast

☼ Saint Loup du Gast to Ambrières les Vallées (3km) (Site in French)