Heritage route
Velay Express
Raucoules → Saint-Agrève · France
- Distance
- 27 km
- Fastest time
- ~1 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 15 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Voies Ferrées du Velay
- Train
- Steam 020+020 T Mallet · 040 T
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1902
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
France’s highest steam railway: a 1906 Mallet hauls metre-gauge trains across the 1,000 m Velay plateau between Raucoules and Saint-Agrève.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8827501 — 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 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Voies Ferrées du Velay — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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