Ligne des Hirondelles

36 tunnels and 18 viaducts swooping like its namesake swallows through the high Jura: stacked stone arches right above the rooftops of Morez.

Stations

1. 0 kmDole
2. 14 kmMontbarrey
3. 25 kmArc-et-Senans
4. 31 kmMouchard
5. 55 kmAndelot
6. 68 kmChampagnole
7. 70 kmChampagnole Paul-Émile Victor
8. 81 kmLa Chaux-des-Crotenay
9. 87 kmLa Chaumusse - Fort-du-Plasne
10. 91 kmSaint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux
11. 99 kmMorbier
12. 103 kmMorez
13. 127 kmSaint-Claude

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6386667 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via SNCF: our line passes within 678 m of every station train 36558 (Dole–St Claude) calls at (the operator publishes no route geometry to compare)
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Ligne des Hirondelles?

The Ligne des Hirondelles runs 123 km from Dole to Saint-Claude.

How long does the Ligne des Hirondelles take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 3 h for the 123 km. That is an average of 41 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 90 km/h.

Who runs the Ligne des Hirondelles?

SNCF Voyageurs, with TER Mobigo railcar.

How old is the Ligne des Hirondelles?

The line has been in service since 1912. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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