Scenic route
Mont-Blanc Express
Saint-Gervais → Martigny · France · Switzerland
Mont-Blanc Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 55 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 30 km/h
- Top speed
- 70 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF / TMR
- Train
- Z 800
- Countries
- France, Switzerland
- In service since
- 1908
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A metre-gauge mountain line under Mont Blanc, using third-rail power and a rack section to climb the Chamonix valley from Saint-Gervais into Switzerland.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 3448067 (36 km), relation 6690547 (20 km) — 57 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 1 km from the shape of TER18903 (Zug-Nr. 18903)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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