The Chemin de fer du Mont-Revard was a former single track meter-gauge line from Aix-les-Bains to the top of Mont-Revard. It employed an Abt type rack and pinion third rail. It was 9.35 km long, had a maximum gradient of 21% and a change in altitude of 1,232 meters.
Opening was on 15 August 1892. Passenger traffic ceased on 25 October 1935, replaced by an aerial cableway, but bagage transport continued to 1937. The cableway ceased in 1969.
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