Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet train station
| Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet train station | |
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 SNCF station building in Le Fayet
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| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| opening | June 5, 1898 |
| Profile on SNCF.fr | Code: frxgf |
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| City / municipality | Saint-Gervais-les-Bains |
| Department | Haute-Savoie department |
| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 54 '23 " N , 6 ° 42' 5" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 580 m |
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| List of train stations in France | |
The community station Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet is located in Le Fayet , a town in the municipality of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains . It is the start and end station of two railway lines: the regular - gauge railway line La Roche-sur-Foron – Saint-Gervais and the narrow-gauge railway Saint-Gervais – Chamonix – Vallorcine , which in its extension as the Martigny-Châtelard Railway to the Swiss city of Martigny leads. The Tramway du Mont-Blanc mountain railway , a cogwheel railway to the 2362-meter-high Nid d'Aigle viewpoint , also begins on the station forecourt .
location
The municipality of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains part of the department of Haute-Savoie in the region Rhône-Alpes . The station is 581 meters above sea level ( Marseille gauge ) at the foot of the Mont Blanc group in the Arve valley , a tributary of the Rhone .
history
After the most important railway lines in France had been built at the end of the 19th century, further railway lines were built according to the Freycinet plan . The La Roche-sur-Foron-Saint-Gervais railway was built by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM). The standard gauge station and the station building in Le Fayet were built in 1898.
In 1901, the meter-gauge line via Chamonix to Vallorcine was put into operation , also by PLM . The depot and workshops of this narrow-gauge railway were built in Le Fayet.
The first section of the Tramway du Mont-Blanc, which is also meter-gauge, was opened in 1909, starting from the valley station near Le Fayet train station.
business
The station and both railway lines are operated by the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF). On the standard gauge tracks he is of Trains à Grande Vitesse (TGV), Intercités and TER approached -Nahverskehrszügen.
Narrow gauge trains of the SNCF and the Swiss Martigny-Châtelard-Bahn run as the Mont-Blanc Express continuously to Martigny. Other French trains are already ending in the intermediate stations of Vallorcine , Argentière and Chamonix . Until the 1990s, there were no continuous passenger trains to Martigny, in Le Châtelard-Frontière , just across the Swiss border , you had to change trains .
Web links
- Historical photos of the station on histoire-passy-montblanc.fr, accessed on January 18, 2014