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We looked at this line about a year ago, but the amount of snow made another video worthwhile. This is our 11th video from France. See the others here: Link to the continuation to Marseille: We will be travelling from France’s highest city - Briançon with its train station at 1’203 meters above sea level to the junction Veynes-Dévoluy. From there you can continue to Marseille to the south, Grenoble to the north or Valence to the west. As most lines in France, this line has an interesting story. Probably the most interesting part for me, was discovering that 16 Km of the original line is now underwater. Due to a history of disastrous flooding, construction began in 1955 of what would then be Europe’s largest dam to help regulate the water flow, further enable irrigation and bring hydro-electric power opportunities. In 1956, construction began of a new track section bet
