During a summer meeting at Les Sables-d’Olonne, Bernard helped me discover the railway heritage of this fine part of Vendée. We saw what was left of the metre gauge railways, the former COFERNA works, we inspected the route of the tramway that ran along the city walls… But what surprised me most and by far were those short-lived industrial lines that crossed the dune ridge to reach the wilder shores of the ocean. These 60cm gauge railways were what I wanted to bring back to life through this project.
