A “Paris Museums Train” running on the RER C tracks between the capital, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Essonne and Yvelines was inaugurated on Monday at Gare d'Austerlitz in Paris .
The four-car train has been serving the usual stations since Tuesday.
Its interior has been completely redecorated to present passengers with reproductions of famous works visible in the museums of the City of Paris, explains
Le Parisien
.
It took six hundred hours to put in the wagons a plastic film coated in the colors of the paintings of the Palais Galliera, the Petit Palais, the Museum of Modern Art and the Carnavalet Museum.
Seven professionals were mobilized for ten days for the operation.
Line C of the RER and its 36 stations are particularly popular with holidaymakers visiting cultural sites in the Ile-de-France region.
A very touristic line
Every day, 50,000 tourists take the RER C, or 10% of all people transported.
Like the “Palace of Versailles” trains in service on the same line since 2012, the “Paris Museums Train” stands out.
"We see much less malicious acts or damage in the film-coated trains," commented RER C director Nicolas Ligner.
Quite simply because beauty inspires respect.
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