La Roche-sur-Foron – Saint-Gervais railway line

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La Roche-sur-Foron-Saint-Gervais
TGV, TER and narrow-gauge trains in Saint-Gervais
TGV, TER and narrow-gauge trains in Saint-Gervais
Section of the La Roche-sur-Foron – Saint-Gervais railway line
Route number (SNCF) : 895,000
Course book route (SNCF) : 513
Route length: 47.47 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope : 20  ‰
Minimum radius : 300 m
Top speed: 130 km / h
Dual track : -
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Route from Annemasse
Station, station
 77.74 La Roche-sur-Foron 580  m
   
 77.21 Viaduc du Foron ( Foron , 123 m)
   
77.18
0.56
Route to Aix-les-Bains
   
 1.32 Viaduc de la Gouille à l'Âne (105 m)
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 1.47 Tunnel de Bénite Fontaine (71 m)
Stop, stop
 6.18 Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny 479  m
   
 6.89 Borne (56 m)
Road bridge
 8.06 A 40
   
 9.57 Swiss stone pine (139 m)
Station, station
 10.04 Bonneville 449  m
   
 17.35 Giffre (57 m)
Stop, stop
 17.69 Marignier 474  m
   
 21.39 Thyez- Le Nanty 476  m
Station, station
 24.57 Cluses 485  m
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 25.02 Tunnel de Chevron (299 m)
   
 28.50 Balme - Arâches 494  m
Stop, stop
 31.39 Magland 506  m
   
 35.20 Oëx 523  m
   
 35.54 Swiss stone pine (60 m)
Station, station
 40.60 Sallanches - Combloux - Megève 547  m
   
 42.65 Mont-Blanc-Plage 550  m
   
 43.79 Domancy 557  m
End station - end of the line
 46.91 Saint-Gervais-Le Fayet 580  m
   
 Connection to Vallorcine
and the Tramway du Mont Blanc

The railway line La Roche-sur-Foron-Saint-Gervais is a standard gauge railway line in the French department of Haute-Savoie in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the state rail infrastructure company SNCF Réseau .

Route

The line branches off at La Roche-sur-Foron from the higher-level Aix-les-Bains – Annemasse railway line . Following the valley of the Arve , which rises to the southeast, it ends at the foot of the Mont-Blanc massif . The terminus is the communal station Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet in the village of Le Fayet in the municipality of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains .

The meter- gauge narrow - gauge railways via Chamonix to Martigny and the Tramway du Mont-Blanc cogwheel train to the 2362 meter high Nid d'Aigle viewpoint begin there .

history

Two track gauges at Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet station, 1986
TER near Le Fayet

The "Déclaration d'utilité publique" was issued for the section from La Roche-sur-Foron to Cluses on April 4, 1881.

As part of and under the terms of the Freycinet plan , the concession for the construction and operation of the line was awarded to the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) on November 20, 1883 . This section was commissioned on June 1, 1890.

As a precaution, the section from Cluses to Saint-Gervais was licensed to PLM on August 2, 1886. The “Déclaration d'utilité publique” was granted on March 31, 1891 for this 22-kilometer route. On June 15, 1898, operations began on the entire route.

Infrastructure

The line has been electrified with 25 kV 50 Hz AC voltage since 1955 . It is also equipped with the manual block and the Contrôle de vitesse par balises (KVB). The maximum speed is usually between 100 and 130 km / h. The narrowest arc radius of the route is located near the former Balme - Arâches stop , at 300 meters. There the speed is limited to 80 km / h.

business

Passenger trains are operated by the national railway company Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF). The TER Rhône-Alpes trains run on the route in regional traffic and TGV high-speed trains in long-distance traffic . The Z 27500 , Z 9500 and Z 9600 series are used in regional transport .

Web links

Commons : La Roche-sur-Foron – Saint-Gervais line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Douté, Les 400 profils de lignes voyageurs du réseau ferré français , La Vie du Rail, 2011, ISBN 978-2-918758-44-0 , volume 2, page 173
  2. ↑ Bulletin des lois de la République française, year 1881/01, page 332
  3. ↑ Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, règlements, et avis du Conseil d'État, year 1884, page 72
  4. ↑ Rapports et délibérations - Conseil général de la Haute-Savoie, year 1891, page 53
  5. ^ Bulletin des lois de la République française, year 1886/07, page 633
  6. ^ Bulletin des lois de la République française, year 1891/01, page 413
  7. ↑ Rapports et délibérations - Conseil général de la Haute-Savoie, year 1898, page 76
  8. ↑ LA ROCHE SUR FORON - SAINT-GERVAIS on railsavoie.fr