Decauville Trail (Bardonecchia – Val Fredda)

Decauville Trail (Bardonecchia – Val Fredda)

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Decauville Trail (Bardonecchia – Val Fredda)

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Bardonecchia - Val Fredda

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Location: Bardonecchia, Torino, Piedmont, Italy

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alvento – italian cycling magazine

September 28, 2023

Cycling

This beautiful dirt path was created from the site of an old industrial railway, known as Decauville, named after the engineer who invented this type of rail transport in the 1870s, Paul Decauville. In the 1920s and 1930s this railway on the Rochemolles torrent was used for the construction of the Sallarce dam and was part of the works that would lead to the electrification of the Frejus railway. To cross the Almiane river there is a notable wooden bridge.

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Gabri 🇮🇹

September 28, 2023

Mountain biking

Flat route on the route of the former narrow gauge railway used in the 1930s for the construction of the dam

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Enrico Maccarini

July 5, 2020

Cycling

A slight slope along a part of the old industrial railway of Rochemolles (1915) with a narrow gauge (Decauville) built by the State Railways for the construction of the Sallarce dam, as part of the electrification of the Frejus railway

it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrovia_di_Rochemolles

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