Mountain route
Mont-Blanc Tramway
Saint-Gervais → Nid d’Aigle · France
Mont-Blanc Tramway in pictures
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- Distance
- 12 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 10 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Compagnie du Mont-Blanc
- Train
- Rack railcars
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1913
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
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