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'''PontAuRail''' was a [[voluntary association]] created in 1995 to run trains between [[Gare de Pont-Audemer|Pont-Audemer]] and [[Honfleur Marshalling yard|Honfleur]] in [[France]]. The group comprised approximately fifty voluntary members, of which twenty were active.
An agreement, {{lang|fr|une convention signée}}, allowed PontAuRail to use the line between [[Pont-Audemer]] and [[Honfleur]] on request on Saturdays, Sundays and [[bank holiday]]s.

The trip along the [[Risle]] valley lasted fifty-five minutes, including manoeuvres; closing of the semi-automatic [[level crossing]]s in Pont-Audemer and [[Shunting (rail)|shunting]] in Honfleur.

The PontAuRail group was disbanded in 2006 and the railway line was abandoned.
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[[Image:PontAuRail - plan.png|600px|center|thumb|Plan of the PontAuRail line.]]

==Rolling stock==
[[Image:SNCF X 2426 Pont-Audemer 25-02-06.jpg|250px|thumb|right|X 2426 in [[Gare de Pont-Audemer|Pont-Audemer]].]]
[[File:Abandoned railway near Beuzeville.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Level crossing near Beuzeville in 2023]]
PontauRail operated with two ex-[[SNCF]] [[diesel multiple units]], [[SNCF Class X 2400|X2426]] and [[SNCF Class X 4500|X4555]].

* Railcar X2426 was officially decommissioned on 27 September 1987 in Limoges. Saved from scrapping, it became the property of the [[Train Touristique du Cotentin]] until 1995 when it was purchased by the Risle Seine [[Syndicat Intercommunal à Vocation Multiple|SIVOM]] to create pleasure railway service between [[Pont-Audemer]] and [[Honfleur]]. It remained parked in [[Gare de Carentan]] for a long time and then was vandalised in [[Gare de Pont-Audemer]]. It was then restored carefully and repainted in its original livery. X2426 became the property of PontAuRail following the dismantling of the SIVOM.
* [[Diesel multiple unit|DMU]] X4555 was entrusted to PontAuRail by the SNCF in 2004. X4555 was built in 1965 and allocated to [[Lyon|Lyon Vaise]] on 10 November 1965. It was then moved to [[Nevers]] on 23 May 1971 then to [[Marseille]] on 9 June 1971 and finally to Longueau on 30 September 1982. It was then decommissioned in September 2003. It ran services in 2005 in replacement of the X2426, which was less powerful than the X4555.

==Stations==
*[[Gare de Pont-Audemer|Pont-Audemer]]
*[[Gare de Toutainvile|Toutainville]]
*[[Gare de Saint-Maclou|Saint-Maclou]]
*[[Gare de Beuzeville|Beuzeville]]
*[[Gare de Quetteville|Quetteville]]
*[[Gare de La Rivière Saint-Sauveur|La Rivière Saint-Sauveur]]
*[[Honfleur marshalling yard|Honfleur]]
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==External links==
*{{in lang|fr}} [http://pontaurail.free.fr PontAuRail]

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