Cogwheel locomotive He 2/2 # 2 of the La Rhune railway (Chemins de fer de la Rhune) is leaving the valley station Col de Saint-Ignace (170 meter a.s.l.) with the 11.30 AM train up to the summit of La Rhune (888 m a.s.l.), shoving the two cars # 1 and # 3. The vehicles date from 1914, but the line was inaugurated in 1924 only. The gauge is 1 meter, maximum grade 25 %, operated by 3000 V 50 Hz three-phase current. The railway is operated with a total of 4 trains, all with one locomotive shoving two cars, the timetable shows two trains following each other, departing every 40 minutes.
