Gatteville, train station.
AOK 7, KVA J1, KV.Gr. Cotentin Ost, KVU.Gr. Barfleur, train station, loading bay.
Driving over the D116, through the village of Gatteville towards the D10, you find a small road leading you south-west.
After about 600 meters at your right hand you see a high, long and big concrete wall that looks like a tank wall.
This is not a tank wall but a former loading bay built by the Germans to load enormous quantities of sand they needed for building the bunkers in the north of the Cotentin and especially for the Festung Cherbourg. There was a small railroad track from Barfleur towards Cherbourg, used for transporting farming products towards the city, for export to England through the harbour of Cherbourg. The Germans transformed it into an equipment transport system for there Atlantikwall building program. The old train station is still standing close to the bay. The line was abandoned in 1950.
Types:
1x Loading bay, 50 meters.