In what was my second trip with the SNCF Society, the participants met at Tonbridge to depart for the Channel Tunnel as a coach party at 7am on the 23/6/2012. Briefly, my first trip with this group was on 31/5/2008, when we went to St Quentin, for a visit to the CFTV (see LI issue 135) for travel to Origny and back.
Originally the 2012 visit was to utilize the Verney autorail (railcar) X212 of 1950, but as this hadn't completed its overhaul and repaint, it wasn't therefore ready in time. However when I revisited this railway on the 27/4/2013 for
