The Vanoise Express

The extraordinary VANOISE EXPRESS Cable car is a unique technical exploit.

It is this day the biggest cable car of the world : 2 cabins of 2 levels can take 200 persons.

( Capacity: 2000 persons per hour and by direction)

To be more precise, it is about 2 parallel and independent cable cars, which allow a lot of flexibility to manage passengers stream.

Other exploit: the cable car crosses the valley without intermediate pylon. (1824 m of length, 64m only of made uneven. The cabin is at 380m of the ground on the highest point)

The third exploit: its speed: 45km / hour, world record. The crossing can be made in 3 minutes 50 seconds.

The station departure station, called " driving station " is in Plan-Peisey, on the municipality of Peisey-Nancroix at 1612 m of elevation.

The arrival station, called " tension station " is at 1548m of elevation upstream to Montchavin, municipality of Bellentre.

2 DC engines: 530kW - 1 180 tr/mn, as powerful as a T.G.V.

Contracting owner: THE SELALP, branch of Alps company.

Master builder : DSCA

Builder: POMAGALSKI

Architect : B. Taillefer

The construction started in 2003 and had been inaugurated in January, 2004.

During winter 2007/2008, this prototype of cable car has to undergo works of modification.

In winter, the cable car is accessible to skiers and pedestrians.

On Montchavin side, the cable car arrives on a ski slope.

You can't reach Montchavin by foot. It is advised to resort to services of a guide to find praticable paths in snowshoe.