Re: Chamonix is cog - Guinness is wrong!

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

In Switzerland, between Martigny and Vallorcine, a section of 200 pro mille
(1 in 5) is rack worked; the rest of the route is graded at 70 pro mille (1
in 14) adhesion.  I don't have figures for the French section.
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

David Martin <d_martin@mountains.net.au> wrote in article
<366a1666.0@news.camtech.net.au>...
> Krel wrote in message <36690dc8.13885859@news.netconnect.com.au>...
> >In France the Chamonix line is adhesion worked at 1 in 11.
> Guiness Book of Records say Chamonix is steepest adhesion line at 1 in
11,
> but I tracked it down on the Web & discovered that it uses a cog system.