Scenic route
Panoramique des Dômes
Clermont-Ferrand → Puy de Dôme · France
- Distance
- 5.3 km
- Fastest time
- 15 min
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- TC Dôme (Transdev)
- Train
- Stadler GTW 2/6 rack
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 2012
- Riders per year
- ≈ 750k
Page last updated 2026-07-22 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A Strub rack railway spirals up the dormant Puy de Dôme volcano: 5.3 km and 500 vertical metres to the Roman Temple of Mercury at 1,406 m.
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