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Gare de Courseulles-sur-Mer

Courseulles-sur-Mer, Italy

Gare de Courseulles-sur-Mer

Courseulles was a railway station in Courseulles-sur-Mer at the end of the CF Caen-Mer, terminus of trains from Caen and Luc-sur-Mer. The station and extension of the line opened in July 1876 and doubling of the track with the addition of a third rail for 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) gauge trains (Chemin

s de fer du Calvados) in 1900. The station closed in 1952. The station was situated Place du 6 Juin (current name) next to the Hôtel de Paris and the fishing harbour on the Seulles. the standard gauge railway ended whilst the 600 mm gauge line continued to Bayeux.

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