Tags: Railway Line.
The Haut-Bugey line (French: Ligne du Haut-Bugey) (also nicknamed Lignes des Carpates) is a railway line in France. It is 65 kilometres in length and connects Bourg-en-Bresse with Bellegarde travelling through the Jura Mountains. With steep grades tight curves and a long poorly ventilated tunnel it was a challenging line to operate.For a century and a quarter after its opening in 1877 it served local interests only suffering a slow decline.
