LGV Rhône-Alpes (LN4, Montanay-St Marcel les Valence).
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This is the Viaduct of La Côtière (1,728m), through which this HSL leaves the Dombes Plateau and runs down to the Rhône, with a 35%o (1 in 28) gradient.
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This pic is looking towards Valence and Marseilles. Only those TGV services which ignore Lyons actually run here, viz. mostly Paris-Alps/Med services.
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La Côtière.
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6th August 2005.
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P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr).