The

Principality of Monaco Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is a semi-enclave borde ...

has currently a single railway station, Monaco - Monte Carlo, part of the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway line. The station was originally opened in 1867, but extensively rebuilt in 1999. The length of railway within the Principality is , giving Monaco the third-smallest railway system in the world.

History

Overview

Originally, two stations served the principality on the Marseille-Nice-Ventimiglia line: Monaco and Monte Carlo. A new tunnel was built in the 1950s through the hills behind

Monte Carlo Monte Carlo ( ; ; or colloquially ; , ; ) is an official administrative area of Monaco, specifically the Ward (country subdivision), ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located. Informally, the name also refers to ...

, bypassing the Monte Carlo station and causing its closure.History of Monaco station from the official site

/ref> Subsequently, the Monaco station was renamed Monaco-Monte Carlo station. In the 1990s, the railway line was re-routed completely underground. A new underground station was built to replace the old surface station. The new Monaco - Monte Carlo station was opened on 7 December 1999.

Disused lines

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from La Turbie to

through Beausoleil operated from 1894 to 1932, with a station (Monte Carlo) serving the Principality. Monaco also had a

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way system between 1898 and 1931, with the first line linking Place d’Armes to Saint Roman.

System

Monaco does not operate its own train service; all rail services in the Principality are operated by the French operator,

SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (, , SNCF ) is France's national State-owned enterprise, state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the Rail transport in France, country's national rail traffic along with th ...

. SNCF trains leave the Monaco - Monte Carlo station every 15 minutes throughout the day, although services cease during early, and late hours. The railway station is located on the border of Moneghetti, Monaco and Beausoleil, France, near the Monégasque administrative ward of Saint Michel.

Railway stations

The table below shows the Monegasque stations, the existing one and the disused ones:

References

External links

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