Grasse - An Old Funicular Railway

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Grasse, the perfume capital of Southern France once had pretensions to be the main conurbation of Les Alpes-Maritimes. It was overtaken in these ambitions by the City of Nice. However, the grandees of Grasse sought to ensure that the transport network was worthy of a senior City. Part of their plans involved linking the PLM (now SNCF) standard gauge railway station with the town centre by means of a Funicular railway. ...

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