Chemin de fer du Montenvers

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The Montenvers Railway or Chemin de fer du Montenvers is a rack railway line in the Haute-Savoie region of France. The line runs from a connection with the SNCF, in Chamonix, to the Hotel de Montenvers station, at the Mer de Glace, at an altitude of 1,913 m .
The line is 5.1 km long and has a track gauge of 1,000 mm . It is a rack and adhesion railway, using the Strub rack system to overcome a height difference of 871 m . Except for the terminal stations, which are operated in adhesion mode, the line has a gradient varying from 11% to 22%.

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