Scenic route
Train à Vapeur des Cévennes
Anduze → Saint-Jean-du-Gard · France
- Distance
- 14 km
- Fastest time
- 40 min
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- CITEV
- Train
- Steam 140 C + open coaches
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1909
Page last updated 2026-07-22 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Steam between Anduze and Saint-Jean-du-Gard: across the Gardon on four viaducts, past the giant bamboo of Prafrance — 40 open-window minutes in the Cévennes.
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