Heritage route
Le Mastrou (Vivarais)
Tournon-sur-Rhône → Lamastre · France
Le Mastrou (Vivarais) in pictures
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- Distance
- 33 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h
- Average speed
- 17 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- Chemin de fer du Vivarais
- Train
- 1903 Mallet steam, metre-gauge coaches
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1891
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A metre-gauge steam survivor climbing the granite gorge of the Doux from the Rhône at Tournon to the chestnut country of Lamastre, hauled by 1903 Mallet engines.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 24 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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