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Chemin de fer du Salève

railway Veyrier / Étrembières / Monnetier-Mairie / Treize Arbres
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Summary

Chemin de fer du Salève is a rack railway[1]. It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Haute-Savoie[3], Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes[4]
  • Country: France[5], Switzerland[6]
  • Commons category: Chemin de fer du Salève[7]
  • Significant event: opening ceremony[8], closure[9]
  • Track gauge: 1000 mm track gauge[10]
  • Replaced by: Téléphérique du Salève[11]
  • Date of official opening: 1892[12]
  • State of use: decommissioned[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Chemin de fer du Salève
    Date of official opening → +1892-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Country → France, Switzerland
    Wikidata description → railway Veyrier / Étrembières / Monnetier-Mairie / Treize Arbres
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ State of use: decommissioned"
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