Scenic route
Train des Pignes
Nice → Digne-les-Bains · France
- Distance
- 151 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 45 km/h
- Top speed
- 70 km/h
- Operator
- Chemins de fer de Provence
- Train
- Autorail AMP 800
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1911
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Metre-gauge “pine-cone train” climbing 151 km from Nice to Digne over some 25 tunnels and 16 viaducts, inaugurated in 1911.
How this line was checked
- The 106 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 10016548 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 27 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 49
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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