From the first steps in the “Paris Museums Train”, the art lover is overwhelmed.
All the refinement of the collections of establishments in the City of Paris is in the spotlight.
From floor to ceiling, the four coaches of this train inaugurated this Monday at the Austerlitz station present some wonders from the Palais Galliera, the Petit Palais, the Museum of Modern Art and the Carnavalet museum.
Lucky travelers can discover it from this Tuesday on the RER C. The "Paris Museums Train", unique model, will cross every day 36 stations of the line and five departments (Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de -Marne, Essonne, Yvelines).
Discover the @PalaisGalliera, the Fashion Museum, @PetitPalais_, the Fine Arts Museum, @MAM, & the @museecarnavalet in one place, today from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Gare d'Austerlitz 🤩
The best way to get to the museum is by train 😉
- @parismusees @IDFmobilites pic.twitter.com/gKX8ur5A8j
- SNCF Transilien (@Actu_Transilien) September 27, 2021
"Beauty inspires respect"
Far from the impersonal atmosphere of suburban trains, this very special train is added to the “Palace of Versailles” trains, already in use on the RER C since 2012. The experience is more conclusive.
“We see a lot less malicious acts or damage in the film-coated trains.
Quite simply because beauty inspires respect ”, observes Nicolas Ligner, director of the RER C.
The director of SNCF Transilien, Sylvie Charles, discovers the "Paris Museums Train" on September 27 at Austerlitz station.
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All the interior walls of the train were laminated with a high-tech plastic film.
The operation required 600 hours of work and the intervention of seven specialized agents from the Technicentre SNCF de Paris Rive Gauche for ten days on the Ardoines site (Val-de-Marne).
The “Paris Museums Train” runs on line C, which is the most touristic of the lines operated by Transilien SNCF for Île-de-France Mobilités.
It serves many major sites of Parisian and Ile-de-France heritage and normally transports 50,000 tourists per day, or 10% of passengers on the entire line (before Covid).
Travelers from other lines are not forgotten.
Lines D, E, L and N also accommodate trains filmed on the themes of heritage, impressionists, cinema or the primitive arts.