Mountain route
Petit Train de la Rhune
Col de Saint-Ignace → La Rhune · France
Petit Train de la Rhune in pictures
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- Distance
- 4 km
- Fastest time
- 35 min
- Average speed
- 7 km/h
- Top speed
- 9 km/h
- Operator
- Epsa
- Train
- 1924 wooden rack railcars
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1924
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 1924 wooden cog train grinds up to the 905 m Basque summit of La Rhune, past pottok ponies and griffon vultures, with the Bay of Biscay spread out below.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 23.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 675 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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