Vallorcine station (French: Gare de Vallorcine) is a railway station in the commune of Vallorcine, in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is located on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of SNCF. The station is the last one in France before the line crosses into Switzerland.[1]
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 The station building in 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Vallorcine France | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°1′56.993″N 6°55′57.608″E / 46.03249806°N 6.93266889°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 1,261 m (4,137 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | SNCF | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 34.1 km (21.2 mi) from Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (1 island platform) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 87746875 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2023 | 39,986[2] (SNCF) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Services
editAs of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Vallorcine:[3][4]
- TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: hourly service to Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet.
- Regio Mont-Blanc Express: hourly service to Martigny.
References
edit- ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 54. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Fréquentation en gares" (in French). SNCF. 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
- ^ "Martigny - Le Châtelard-Frontière - Vallorcine - Chamonix - St-Gervais" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
- ^ "Horaires" (PDF) (in French). SNCF. July 2024. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
External links
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Media related to Gare de Vallorcine at Wikimedia Commons- Vallorcine station – TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
