LAUSANNE

ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAP

PO

Place de l'Ours

SF

Saint-François

ROUTES

Operator: Tramways Lausannois (TL), ancestor of Transports publics de la région Lausannoise (TL)

TRAM ROUTE

7-9	Renens-Gare CFF - Malley - Chauderon - Saint-François - Place de l'Ours - Chailly - La Rosiaz

RACK RAILWAY ROUTES

LO	Ouchy - Gare CFF - Flon
LG	Gare CFF - Flon

Operator: Chemin de fer Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher (LEB)

INTERURBAN ROUTE

LEB	Lausanne-Chauderon - Echallens - Bercher

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Tramways - ? km.
• Rack railway - 1.5 km.
• LEB - 23 km.



HISTORY

• Lausanne trams: (electric) 29 Aug. 1896 - 6 Jan. 1964.
• Interurban rail (Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Jorat, merged with TL in 1910): (electric) 16 May 1902 - 3 Mar. 1963.
• Interurban rail (LEB): (steam) 1 June 1874 - 11 Jan. 1936; (electric) 11 Jan. 1936 - today.
• Light rail (Métro-Ouest (TSOL), later called M1: (electric) 24 May 1991 - today.
• Funicular [after 1959: Rack Railway] (Lausanne-Ouchy [LO], "La Ficelle"): 15 Mar. 1877 - 21 Jan. 2006.
• Funicular [after 1959: Rack Railway] (Lausanne-Gare [LG]): 5 Dec. 1879 - 21 Jan. 2006.
• Métro (M2): 28 Sept. 2008 - today.

GAUGE

• TL/LEB: 1000 mm.
• TSOL/Funicular/Rack Railway/Métro: 1435 mm.

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SOURCES

PRINT

• Buckley, R.J. Tramways and Light Railways of Switzerland and Austria. Milton Keynes (England): Light Rail Transit Association, 1st ed., 1984.
• Buckley, R.J. Tramways and Light Railways of Switzerland and Austria. Milton Keynes (England): Light Rail Transit Association, 2nd ed., 2000.
• Comte, T. "Un siècle de transports urbains à Lausanne / Hundert Jahre Verkehrsbetriebe Lausanne", Endstation Ostring, June - Nov. 1996, No.17, p.4-15.
• Cross, B. & Hofmann, P. "The Lausanne - Echallens - Bercher light railway", Light Rail & Modern Tramway, Dec. 1993 (56: 672), p.311-317.
• Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz / Railatlas Suisse. Köln (Germany): Schweers + Wall, 2004.
• Grandguillaume, M., Jutterand, J., Merminod, Y. et al. Les tramways lausannois, 1896-1964. Lausanne: BVA, 1977.
• Honegger, A. "Switzerland's trolley interurban [Lausanne-Moudon] closes", Modern Tramway & Light Railway Review, June 1963 (26: 306), p.216-217.
• Wyse, W.J. "Tramway du Sud-Ouest Lausannois (TSOL, alias Métro Ouest)", Light Rail & Modern Tramway, Feb. 1992 (55: 650), p.33-38.

WIKIS

• Chemin de fer Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher (LEB) [Fr/De]
• Métro de Lausanne [Fr/De/En]
• Transports publics de la région Lausannoise (TL) [Fr/De]

WEB SITES

• ALSTOM - A fully automatic, rubber-tired metro for Lausanne [En]
• Chemin de fer Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher (LEB) [Fr]
• Chemin de fer musée Blonay-Chamby [Fr/De/It/En/Es]]
• Lausanne (on UrbanRail.Net) [En]
• Site non officiel des Transports publics lausannois (SNOTL) [Fr]
• Transports publics de la région Lausannoise (TL) [Fr]

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