Mountain route
Panoramique des Dômes
Clermont-Ferrand → Puy de Dôme · France
Panoramique des Dômes in pictures
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- Distance
- 5.3 km
- Fastest time
- 15 min
- Average speed
- 21 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- TC Dôme (Transdev)
- Train
- Stadler GTW 2/6 rack
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 2012
- Riders per year
- ≈ 750k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A Strub rack railway spirals up the dormant Puy de Dôme volcano: 5.3 km and 500 vertical metres to the Roman Temple of Mercury at 1,406 m.
How this line was checked
- The 5 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 7281454 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 91.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 5 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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