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Its some time since we had last been in France. Staying on a French campsite was something we did a lot of in times past, but a generation on, we were now back again. Although we had driven down to Aquitaine, thoughts naturally turned to our nearest railway line. This was the overhead electrified single line up the peninsula from Bordeaux to Pointe de Grave, which is the ferry port for Royan across the mouth of the Gironde estuary. Modern, colourful, 3-car EMUs brought part of the family to meet us at our local station of Soulac sur Mer. The next station north from here was at Le Verdun. Former freight branch lines peeled off from here to the nearby harbourside, as well as to the inner estuary, but the abundance of rusty rails suggested a serious lack of use in recent times.
