Musée du rail in Dinan

In the old town of Dinan (Northern Brittany) there is a nice rail museum with many old toy trains. Since, many of you will probably not be able to visit this place, I took some pictures. The museum itself is located in the station of Dinan, in what used to be the luggage department.

Entrance of Musee du rail

The hosts are friendly and offered visitors from abroad an English language leaflet which explains the highlights of the collection, which is quiet wide; European railway men caps, old posters, model trains, the interior of a switch tower, metal warning signs, etc. But the best for me are the many old toy trains of JEP, Hornby and others pre-war European scale zero, Hi rail toy train brands. Almost at the end of the circular route there is large layout of JEP and Hornby trains and that is the kind of place where I can spend hours.... This museum is a true JEP hot spot.
The museum shop was a nice surprise; it is a second hand toy train shop and in case you are looking for old French toy trains, spare parts, books, scenery stuff, there is a good chance of finding something useful there.

First exhibition room with rail road caps etc.

Large HO layout with many trains running simultaneously.

In case of switching please keep eye contact with the switch controllers

Either you can't read French or you are deaf, when you are on the middle of the crossing when the train approaches

Interior of the switch tower

Yep it is JEP!

As usual the best items are behind glass

Plenty of shelves with toy train treasures

The JEP layout in the final exhibition room

Beauty of an JEP engine on the layout

So, in case you are in Western France and want to see vintage toy trains, you will have to go to Dinan.