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6 unusual facts about Paimpol


38 cm SK C/34 naval gun

Four Drh LC/34 turrets, three of which were originally intended to re-arm the Gneisenau and one completed to the Soviet order, modified for land service, were planned to be emplaced at Paimpol, Brittany and on the Cap de la Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula, but construction never actually began.

État 42-001 to 42-020

The last of the series were allocated to the St-Brieux depot and rented to the Société générale de chemins de fer et de transport automobile (CFTA) after Réseau Breton lines between Carhaix and Paimpol had been re-gauged from metre gauge to standard gauge.

La Vieille

Consequently, a Paimpolaisean schooner named the Surprise, struck herself onto the rocks near the town Plogoff.

Le Pays

Spring: The Icelandic shore: Tual dreams of Paimpol, his home in Brittany, while making a small fishing boat.

Paimpol

The attractions of the town are also a major theme of Guy Ropartz's opera Le Pays and Théodore Botrel's song La Paimpolaise.

SNCF Class X 97150

Three units, numbered X 97151-153 were built to work the Guingamp to Carhaix and Paimpol lines in Brittany.


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