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Dear subscribers, dear day visitors, it is an invitation to travel that I offer you with this snowy video, between earth and sky to storm the peaks in a winter landscape where the famous snow or additional trains appeared every year during the winter period. Designed to be extended to Italy, the Briançon line, about a hundred kilometers long, never crossed the border. Its reduced activity in a sparsely populated department that is the Hautes Alpes, experienced a rebound with the rise of winter sports from the 70s/80s. A video look back at the history of this railway artery of the French Alps with a thwarted international destiny. It was during the February school holidays that additional night trains were set up to the Briançon ski resorts in order to cope with the influx of travelers during this period. These night journeys by sleeper train not only allowed to reach the snowy peaks of the Alps in complete peace and quiet, sheltered from winter conditions, and it was an excellent ecological means. These night journeys offered the advantage of maximizing the time spent on the slopes, skiers could wake up at the foot of the mountains, ready to hurtle down the snowy slopes and this by leaving the evening before from Paris and arriving the next morning in Briançon. Given the recent elimination of the last night trains since 2018, the night service from the capital to Briançon is nowadays exclusively by a single night train, due to a lack of locomotives, very old and dated equipment but also no desire on the part of the SNCF to maintain these trains. With this video, I suggest you rediscover the last night train trips through the magnificent snowy landscapes of the Haute Durance valley. Thanks to TGV Prod for the cabin views / @tgvprod