Haute-Savoie opens Tramway du Mont-Blanc extension to Nid d'Aigle

The Tramway du Mont-Blanc has again run for the public since 28 June 2026 as far as the new terminus near the Nid d'Aigle mountain hut at 2,380 m; the official inauguration took place on 27 June 2026. In summer 2023 the Haute-Savoie département began building the missing 300 m of track so that the line ends on level ground in front of the hut instead of on a 20 per cent gradient, and it built a rockfall protection gallery at the tunnel exit. France's highest rack railway was begun in 1906 and opened in 1909, before technical difficulties, costs and the First World War halted the project, which was originally planned to reach the Aiguille du Goûter. (LOK Report, 30 Jun 2026)