Chamonix-Mont-Blanc station (french: Gare de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc) is a railway station in the commune of
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the French
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of
Haute-Savoie. It is located on the gauge
Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of
SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi ...
. The station is adjacent to the station of the
Chemin de fer du Montenvers
The Montenvers Railway or Chemin de fer du Montenvers is a rack railway line in the Haute-Savoie department 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 ...
, which operates a rack railway to the
Mer de Glace
The Mer de Glace ("Sea of Ice") is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps. It is 7.5 km long and deep but, when all its tributary glaciers are taken into account, it can be regarded as ...
.
Services
the following services stop at Chamonix-Mont-Blanc:
*
TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: hourly service between and .
References
External links
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* {{TER web, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 87746784, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
Railway stations in Haute-Savoie