The extra­or­di­nary VANOISE EXPRESS cable car is a unique tech­ni­cal feat. It is on this day that the largest cable car in the world: 2 cab­ins of the 2nd lev­el can take 200 peo­ple. (Capac­i­ty: 2000 peo­ple per hour and by des­ti­na­tions).
To be more pre­cise, we are talk­ing about 2 par­al­lel and inde­pen­dent cable cars, which allow you to flex­i­bly man­age pas­sen­ger traf­fic.
Anoth­er feat: the cable car cross­es the val­ley with­out an inter­me­di­ate sup­port. (1824m length, 64m bumps only. The cab­in is 380m above the ground at its high­est point).
The third feat: his speed: 45 km / h, a world record. The tran­si­tion can be com­plet­ed in 3 min­utes 50 sec­onds.
The depar­ture sta­tion, called the “car sta­tion”, is locat­ed in Plan Peisy, in the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Peisy-Nan­croix, at an alti­tude of 1612 m above sea lev­el.
The arrival sta­tion, called the “sta­tion of ten­sion”, is locat­ed at an alti­tude of 1548 m above sea lev­el upstream to Montchavin, munic­i­pal­i­ty of Bel­lantre.