THE RICH HISTORY OF THE CHEMIN DE FER DE LA BAIE DE SOMME

摘要

Just 90km from the Sussex coast at Hastings is the French town of Saint-Valery-sur Somme. It was briefly famous in 1066 (and ever since in France) as the place that Duke William of Normandy left to sail to England, where, after defeating the English armies, he soon became King William I. St Valery, at the mouth of the River Somme, is nowadays a quiet seaside town which is also the base of one of France's (and Europe's) leading heritage railways.