How can I find out the height above sea level the train travelling up through Italy to France goes to. There is someone that cannot go above 400 m for health reasons. He needs to get home and we are trying to find the best option.
How can I find out the height above sea level the train travelling up through Italy to France goes to. There is someone that cannot go above 400 m for health reasons. He needs to get home and we are trying to find the best option.
The old route - via Googlemaps - is about 410m at Blaisy-bas summit tunnel. I think the OP should check with the medical advisor!The maximum elevation of the Lyon-Paris LGV (488 m) is reached at PK218, near the Seine / Rhône / Loire divide.
Indeed it is! Apologies for earlier post - just checked my files.The maximum elevation of the Lyon-Paris LGV (488 m) is reached at PK218, near the Seine / Rhône / Loire divide.
How can I find out the height above sea level the train travelling up through Italy to France goes to. There is someone that cannot go above 400 m for health reasons. He needs to get home and we are trying to find the best option.
Someone needs to ask what's the reason for the altitude restriction, and is there a way of flexing it somehow, e.g. portable oxygen bottle if it's respiratory-related?
I wouldn’t be so sure that the Reggio-Northern Italy main line doesn’t break the 400m barrier. It gets pretty hilly on some of sections where it runs away from the coast.To be on the safe side, I would - having taken ferry to Italy - look at the long but low route all around the Italian coast, round the toe to Reggio di Calabria, then up the west coast to France - and then (as just mentioned) across southern France to Bordeaux before heading north. Interrail or such might be useful...
Brindisi to Milan/Alessandria looks well below 400m (Googlemaps again), Alessandria to Genoa cuts through hills but I think the tunnels keep it low enough.I wouldn’t be so sure that the Reggio-Northern Italy main line doesn’t break the 400m barrier. It gets pretty hilly on some of sections where it runs away from the coast.
Brindisi to Milan/Alessandria looks well below 400m (Googlemaps again), Alessandria to Genoa cuts through hills but I think the tunnels keep it low enough.