This is a computer translation of the original webpage. It is provided for general information only and should not be regarded as complete nor accurate. Help us to correct our errors, thank you for your assistance.
 

Take the train:
- by curiosity,
- to see the landscape differently,
- to reach a hiking trail without taking your car.
Take the train:
- only, in family, a group,
- in a regular train or a special train,
- in a train itself or a rail-car,
- with the rise or the descent,
- for an one-way ticket or a return ticket.

During your reading, stop the cursor of the mouse on the underlined words you will discover images...
Long 37 kilometers, juxtaposing SNCF railway station (alt. 760 m), tourist line leaves the valley of Dunières and at once passes under the village thanks to a tunnel of 243 meters. station of Dunières City marks the beginning long crawl which curves through wood and the meadows. Lost in the medium of under wood and having for only bench mark a board of wood bearing its name, we discover the halt of Cublaise. The rise continue and the first farm recalls us that we approach civilization. The village of Montfaucon (alt. 918 m) take shape at the end of the hard slope. After one small metal bridge we cross the fields of cabbages and after one level crossing the chain of Mézenc is offered to our glance filled with wonder. After a few kilometers we join the station of Raucoules Brossettes (alt. 835 m), old junction of the line which went in Yssingeaux and the Vault on the Loire. Two rails us guide through a landscape worthy of Velay and spans the brook of Brossettes which feeds it Barrage de Lavalette on Lignon. A large wood us still separate from the small bridge to the top of the brook of Trifoulou and halt bearing its name. The halt of Salettes locates the small descent who takes us along to the bridge which crosses the brooks of Mazeaux little front Tence (alt. 850 m).

With new long slope will raise us with the top of throats of Lignon with which we will play hide-and-seek through the wood of beeches, pines, fir trees or of larches.
After Chambon on Lignon (alt. 970 m) we always go along the throats of Lignon and the two steel rails will leave through fields to the bridge of Tavas and its three arches with the top of the brook of Cholet. Hard rise will raise us until the climax of the line (alt. 1060m). The mount Gerbier de Jonc, the chain of Mézenc and the peak of Lizieux will divert our attention and will prevent us from seeing them invisible barriers between the department of Haute-Loire and of Ardeche as well as the watershed Atlantique/Méditerranée.
The last slope will bring us to the ultimate bridge which launches us with the top of Eyrieux not larger than a brook. This final slope us brings in station of Saint Agrève (alt. 1040 m) where the fresh air invades our lungs.


Agrandir le plan

 
You have multiple reasons to travel by this train and as you are can be you on holiday will forgive him its approximate schedules, its relative discomfort, its slowness.
You will feel slackened and you will think of those which built line, cut the stone to build the bridges, dug the tunnels of their hands. You will think of those which took the train to go to work with the mine or to leave to the war.
You will close the eyes one moment. You will imagine to be a child of SAINT-ETIENNE, ROCHE la MOLIÈRE or TERRE-NOIRE. You will hear around you them voice of other children who leave, like you, for the first time greyness of the mining cities with "the Work of the Children with the Mountain "to remake you a health.
You will be able to also imagine to be taken by the hand by an unknown, to have been afraid, to have listened to it then to have followed it after having removed one piece of fabric yellow on your clothing, to have been hungry, to be gone up in the train then in another, smallest. By opening them again eyes you will see the blue sky, the green landscapes, Mézenc with far, solid houses, churches, temples and faces reassuring.