Exiting the Saint-Gervais-le-Fayet station, the railway successivement crosses to waterways: Bon-Nant and then Arve. A relatively large set of normal gauge sidings is located between them. After river Arve, the railway heads to Chedde in mostly a straight line.
Until 2011, the track to Chedde was double gauge: it could accommodate standard gauge freight trains servicing a large chemical plant in Chedde. These services stopped in the early 1990s.
Before the switchover to Swiss signals, Le Fayet station was the only part of the Saint-Gervais-Vallorcine line to have standard SNCF light block signals. Here, a Z 800 EMU has just passed the station’s exit signal. Existing Saint-Gervais-le-Fayet station, the track crosses the Bon-Nant on a metal bridge. A Z 850 EMU is crossing the Arve river before calling at Le Fayet. At the feet of the Fiz mountain range, the set of standard-gauge tracks of Le Fayet appears mostly unused here. At the feet of the Fiz range, this Z 850 EMU is crossing the Arve river next to level crossing number 1. A long flat straight line section leads to Chedde station. Looking in the other direction, this Z 800 EMU is heading towards the terminal station in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le-Fayet.
