Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny – Bourg-Saint-Maurice railway line

Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny-Bourg-Saint-Maurice
Route number (SNCF) :	899,000
Route length:	80.21 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend by Culoz 0.00 Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny 295 m to Modane 6.14 Fréterive 296 m 9.63 Grésy-sur-Isère 313 m 15.89 Frontenex 320 m 20.60 Gilly-sur-Isere 331 m from Annecy 23.63 Albertville 338 m 25.46 System change 1.5 kV / 25 kV 50 Hz 26.06 Arl Bridge (17 m) 29.56 Tours-en-Savoie 348 m 32.89 La Bâthie 362 m 34.37 Tunnel de l'Arbine (31 m) 36.87 Cevins 382 m 37.03 Tunnel de Cevins (151 m) 38.46 Isère Bridge (60 m) 39.82 Tunnel des Côtes (314 m) 40.98 Isère Bridge (54 m) 43.60 Notre-Dame-de-Briançon 425 m 44.25 Tunnel du Champ du Comte (534 m) 45.95 Petit-Cœur-La Léchère-les-Bains 445 m 49.47 Aigueblanche 472 m 49.66 Esserts tunnel (1501 m) 51.66 Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains 479 m 52.12 Tunnel des Cordeliers n ° 1 (198 m) 54.02 Tunnel des Cordeliers n ° 2 (241 m) 54.40 Tunnel de la Saucette (711 m) 52.49 Tunnel de la Boucle (1401 m) 55.97 Tunnel de Pomblière (166 m) 57.23 Pomblière-Saint-Marcel 554 m 57.69 Tunnel de Saint-Marcel (441 m) 58.17 Viaduc des Plaines ( Isère ) (70 m) 58.31 Tunnel des Plaines (1671 m) 60.05 Viaduc du Siaix ( Isère ) (55 m) 61.66 Centron 605 m 62.65 Viaduc du Nant-Agod (76 m) 63.30 Tunnel de Sainte-Anne (203 m) 64.55 Tunnel du Châtelard (161 m) 66.56 Aime-la-Plagne 662 m 67.02 Viaduc d'Aime ( Isère ) (98 m) 71.62 Viaduc de Mazuet (60 m) 72.10 Tunnel de Bellentre (227 m) 73.94 Landry 743 m 74.27 Ponthurin (15 m) 77.05 Hauteville-Gondon 776 m 77.72 Tunnel de Ravoire (205 m) 78.42 Viaduc de Bourg-St-Maurice ( Isère ) (46 m) 80.21 Bourg-Saint-Maurice 813 m

The railway line Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny-Bourg-Saint-Maurice is a standard gauge railway line in the French Savoie department in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the state rail infrastructure company SNCF Réseau . The railway crosses the Tarentaise valley , which has one of the highest densities of winter sports stations in the world, and is also known as the "Tarentaise Line".

history

A TGV on a bridge over the Isère before Bourg-Saint-Maurice

The line from Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny to Albertville was opened in 1879, the continuation to Moûtiers in 1893. Since 1913, trains have been running to Bourg-Saint-Maurice . There were even plans to build a railway tunnel under the Little St. Bernard Pass in order to connect with Pré-Saint-Didier in the Aosta Valley , but these were never realized.

business

Aime-La Plagne train station

The route is served by the TER Rhône-Alpes , in winter there are additional TGV connections from Paris . In the run-up to the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , the track was completely electrified and modernized in 1988.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Messiez: Le rail en Tarentaise. , 2001, Éditions du Cabri, ISBN 2-908816-07-5 (French)
2. ↑ Saint-Pierre d'Albigny Bourg-Saint-Maurice Ligne de la tarentaise on http://www.railsavoie.fr/ (French)