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Saint Laurent du Pont is a pretty lively market town these days, perhaps due to its relative isolation from the larger centres in the vicinity. In fact to get there from Grenoble you have to cross the Placette Pass, from Voiron the Bayard Pass and the Crossey Canyon and from Chambéry, the Echelles tunnel.
The town guards the entrance of the Chartreuse Mountains by Guiers Mort Canyon and the road to the Desert, home of the Convent of the Grande Chartreuse. The canyon continues to Saint Pierre de Chartreuse, renowned tourist resort. It's a beautiful area where countless hikes are possible for walkers of all ages.

Page 1- American Cars and Bikes, La Fourvoirie.
Page 2- The Herretang Marshes and Peat Bogs.
Page 3- Another visit.

Here, I would like to present 13 pages about the standard guage railway tracks in Grenoble and its suberbs. Sounds simple perhaps, but as Grenoble has had a lot of upheaval in its history, the railway too has had to cope with these changes. In these pages, I try to show what's left of all these past developments, I call them the disused, forgotten, taken away or abandoned lines.
It's surprising to see all that remains to-day of a prosperous past, but also what is disappearing so quickly, or has already gone forever.

The town 'Les Echelles' in Savoy faces 'Entre Deux Guiers in Isère on the opposite banks of the 'Guiers Vif'. A stone bridge joins the two towns. Here was the boundary between France and the Duchy of Savoy. The two countries were united in 1860, only 151 years ago. The stories of smugglers are frequent here! It was felt that the territory between the two Guiers, the 'Guiers Mort' and the 'Guiers Vif', was a kind of 'no man's land'. Between 1895 and 1936, the tramway VSB deserved the two cities, connecting the main railway stations of Voiron and Saint Béron, crossing the Guiers Vif by an iron bridge.......