Heritage route
Petit train d’Artouste
Lac de Fabrèges → Lac d’Artouste · France
Petit train d’Artouste in pictures
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- Distance
- 10 km
- Fastest time
- 55 min
- Average speed
- 11 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Station d’Artouste
- Train
- Soulé open-air 500 mm cars
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1932
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Built for the dam works of the 1920s: 500 mm open cars creep along a cliff ledge at 1,940 m from the La Sagette gondola to Lac d’Artouste.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 19 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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