Mountain route
Funiculaire Sierre–Crans-Montana
Sierre → Crans-Montana · Switzerland
- Distance
- 4.19 km
- Fastest time
- 13 min
- Average speed
- 19 km/h
- Operator
- SMC
- Train
- Fully renewed cars, track and drive (2022)
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1911
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Switzerland’s longest funicular: 4.2 km and 927 m of climb from the Rhône valley vineyards at Sierre to the Crans-Montana plateau.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3747091 — 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
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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