Gare de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet

• Rail line from La Roche- sur -Foron -Saint -Gervais ( 46.9 km )
• Meter gauge route Saint- Gervais- Vallorcine ( 0.0 km )
• Tramway du Mont -Blanc ( 0.0 miles )

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The Community Gare Saint -Gervais- les- Bains- Le Fayet is located in Le Fayet, a village in the municipality of Saint -Gervais- les- Bains. He is beginning or terminus of two rail lines: the standard gauge rail line from La Roche- sur -Foron -Saint -Gervais and the narrow gauge railway Saint- Gervais- Chamonix- Vallorcine, in its prolongation as Martigny- Châtelard train to the Swiss town of Martigny leads. Moreover, the railway station forecourt, a gear train begins the Mountain Railway Tramway du Mont- Blanc, the 2362 meter high lookout point Nid d' Aigle.

Location

The municipality of Saint- Gervais- les- Bains is part of the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône -Alpes. The train station is 581 meters above sea level ( level Marseille) at the foot of Mont Blanc mountain range in the valley of the Arve River, a tributary of the Rhone.

History

After the end of the 19th century, the main railway lines were built in France, more railway lines were realized after the Freycinet plan. The rail line from La Roche- sur -Foron -Saint -Gervais was built by the Compagnie des Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM ). The standard gauge railway station and the station building in Le Fayet were built in 1898.

1901 was also taken from the PLM, the meter gauge route via Chamonix to Vallorcine in operation. In Le Fayet the deop and the workshops of this narrow gauge railway emerged.

The first section of, also meterspurigen, Tramway du Mont- Blanc, was opened from the station near the train station Le Fayet, starting in 1909.

Operation

Operator of the train and both rail lines is the Société nationale des chemins de fer français ( SNCF). On the standard gauge tracks, he is approached by à grande vitesse Trains ( TGV), Intercités and TER Nahverskehrszügen.

Narrow gauge trains of the SNCF and Swiss Martigny- Châtelard available for transport as Mont- Blanc Express through to Martigny. More French trains already engaged in the intermediate stations of Vallorcine, Argentiere and Chamonix. Until the 1990s, there were no through trains to Martigny, located in just over the Swiss border Châtelard - Frontières had to be switched.