Mountain route
Mont-Blanc Tramway
Saint-Gervais → Nid d’Aigle · France
France’s highest railway grinds up the flank of Mont Blanc to the Nid d’Aigle at 2,372 m, where the climbers’ route to the summit begins.
- Distance
- 12 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 10 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmLe Fayet - Gare
- 1 kmSaint-Gervais-les-Bains +1
- 4 kmMotivon
- 5 kmLes Sellières
- 6 kmTête du Chêne
- 6 kmLes Tuffes
- 7 kmCol de Voza
- 9 kmBellevue
- 10 kmMont Lachat
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. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1050530: 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 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- 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 Mont-Blanc Tramway?
The Mont-Blanc Tramway runs 12 km from Saint-Gervais to Nid d’Aigle.
How long does the Mont-Blanc Tramway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 10 min for the 12 km. That is an average of 10 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 20 km/h.
Who runs the Mont-Blanc Tramway?
Compagnie du Mont-Blanc, with rack railcars.
How old is the Mont-Blanc Tramway?
The line has been in service since 1913. 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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