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I found a set of old pics recently; not a swimming pool nor campervan in sight.

Very nice. I wonder if this 'self-isolated' style of touring is what's best suited to this strange year?

what is the building? shame to see it derelict.

It's a french railway station. Can you see the station name plaque at the top of the gable ? I cannot read the name though.

Looks like Cloitre-Lanneandu. 'Cloitre' is a nunnery, I think. Google doesn't have anything for Lanneandu – any detectives out there?

Nirakaro, dead right: Le Cloitre-St Thegonnec, on VV6 between Morlaix and Carhaix in Brittany. 99% of cyclists arriving into the port at Roscoff and heading South come this way. As with many rural stations this one is nowhere near the places its nameplate suggests, but in the hamlet of Kermeur.

Although the line has been lifted, and the station closed, for many years there is still a working loo and a water tap at the station, plus some picnic tables, because it is the northern 'terminus' for a group who run horse-drawn caravan tours (roulottes), mainly for young and disadvantaged children.

The station is 49km from Roscoff, and I've camped there often: if the ferry arrives at 1500 you ought to be out and clear half an hour after that, a quick trip to the supermarket in St Pol de Leon, and then along the Corniche to Morlaix and up the hill to the station.
It's more of a drag than steep, but the surface is variable and from where you turn off the D9 until you reach the top is - 9 kilometres.

Happy days, and well spotted!

Reseau Breton, metre gauge?

Cyril, hello,

Can't help you with the gauge on that line; but please take a (poor) pic (screen shot) of the VV that passes close to our house in Deux-Sevres, on the old line from Bressuire to Parthenay. As you can see the rails are still in siru, long after the line closed in 1969. Another pic for you as well, of the VV in rather worse conditions!

Happy days,