UP MONT BLANC BY RAIL.
The construction of a railway to the summit of Mont Blanc, similar in all respects to the Jungfrau line, is under consideration.
Well-known experts like M, Vallot, director of the Mont Blanc Observatory, and M. Deperet, Pripfessor of Mineralogy at the Lyons University, who have lately been examining the different routes and atmospheric conditions, believe that the scheme is feasible.
The route which presents the least obstacles, and which is likely to be chosen, is on the Savoy side, departing friom the village of the Houches.
Thei'e will be twelve stations, which will be specially built to resist the climatic conditions, and will be supplied with every convenience for travellers. The length of the mountain railway is estimated at eleven miles. The hydraulic power, which will be electricity, will be obtained from tho River Arve and the Mer de Glace. The author of the scheme, a French engineer named Fabre, has laid the plans of the new railway before the French Minister of the Interior.
There is every likelihood that in a few years the immense panorama from the summit of Mont Blanc will be able to be viewed without danger or fatigue by tourists.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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