Artouste - Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi

A power station of the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi, an early railway company that operated a network of routes in the southwest of France. In 1934 the company was merged with the Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans. It then was the largest private railway in France until it was taken over by the state railway Société national des Chemins de fer français (SNCF) in 1938.