The Vendée amusement park will create its own railway undertaking to propose traveling shows across France from 2023.
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“It’s a kid’s dream, the one I did in front of the miniature train of a childhood boyfriend with his cities, his stations and his hills. I had put in a corner of his head That I would also have a train. But a real. “Decidedly, Nicolas de Villiers, the president of the Puy du Craver society, likes to transform the historical facts into stories tinged with legend. And so he describes the genesis of his completely unexpected project and unveiled Tuesday, November 23: to make the Effes’ amusement park (Vendée), created by his father, Philippe de Villiers, a railway undertaking.
The Puy du Craver company starts on the train by creating the Grand Tour, a six-day rail cruise and five nights designed like a rolling show, stage in a stage, meeting “places the most iconic France, “says the presentation statement. The first commercial trips should start at the beginning of the summer of 2023 and they will spread the first year over twenty-three weeks from June to October.
This 4,000-kilometer Tour de France will start every Monday Gare de l’Est, in Paris, will go through the tomb of Dom Perignon, inventor of Champagne, in Epernay (Marne), the cathedral of Reims (Marne), the Hospices de Beaune (Côte-d’Or), Lake Annecy, Palais des Papes d’Avignon, the country of Paul Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), the Arcachon basin ( Gironde), the Grands Crus of the Medoc, the Château de Chenonceau (Indre-et-Loire) …
“Legendary Narrative”
The last step, in the form of apotheosis before the return to Paris, will of course take place at the Puy du Fou. Travelers will attend the night show before spending their last night on the train. After hesitating, the amusement fleet leaders have decided to turn away from SNCF (or other providers) for traction. The Grand Tour will be a full-fledged railway undertaking, with its license and security certificate in the process of obtaining.
“And without public capital, it’s historic,” says M. de Villiers. The company will have its own train as well as its salaried railwaymen, including two drivers. The set will consist of twelve cars, owned by the company, currently being renovated, including two cars and a bar-bar.
It can carry 30 passengers at most in 15 cabins of three different sizes (10, 20 and 30 m 2 ), as well as 15 crew members. The locomotive, it will be rented. “We are not just a rail cruise, insists M. de Villiers. What we have created has no equivalent in the world. It is the most extravagant and unusual theater ever invented. And this theater , it’s a train. “
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