Transports Montreux – Vevey – Riviera
Transports Montreux – Vevey – Riviera SA , abbreviated MVR , is the name of a Swiss transport company that owns several narrow-gauge railway lines and funiculars in and around Montreux and Vevey on Lake Geneva and that also operates as a railway company . The company was formed in 2001 from the merger of the following four companies:
- Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans ( CEV )
- Montreux – Territet – Glion – Rochers-de-Naye Railway ( MTGN )
- Les Avants – Sonloup funicular railway ( LAS )
- Vevey – Chardonne – Mont-Pèlerin funicular ( VCP )
Transports Montreux – Vevey – Riviera appear on the market together with the operational Montreux – Berner Oberland Railway under the Goldenpass brand.
Infrastructure
Transports Montreux – Vevey – Riviera is the railway infrastructure company on the still existing lines of the former Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans. These are the Vevey - Saint-Légier - Blonay - Les Pléiades and Blonay – Chamby lines .
While regular trains run between Vevey and Les Pléiades all year round, the Blonay – Chamby line serves the trains of the Blonay – Chamby (BC) heritage railway , occasional extra trips and operational vehicle transfers (vehicle maintenance) for the heritage railway and the subsequent railway companies.
The Blonay – Les Pléiades section is continuously provided with a rack according to the Strub system.
History of the predecessor companies
The former Montreux-Territet-Glion-Rochers-de-Naye-Bahn (MTGN) operated the rack railway from Montreux via Glion to the Rochers de Naye and the funicular from Territet to Glion. The company was created in 1992 from the merger of the Territet – Glion ( TG ) funicular and the Montreux-Glion-Rochers-de-Naye-Bahn ( MGN ). The Montreux-Glion-Rochers-de-Naye-Bahn was created in 1987 from the merger of the Montreux-Glion-Bahn ( MGl ) with the Glion-Rochers-de-Naye-Bahn ( GN ).
The Glion – Rochers-de-Naye Railway built a rack railway from Glion up to the Rochers de Naye in 1892. This started in Glion, the terminus of the Territet funicular. The track has a track width of 800 millimeters and is equipped with the Abt gear system. With a length of 7.7 kilometers, a height difference of almost 1300 meters is overcome. In 1938, electrical operations began, which allowed newly purchased railcars to pass through from Montreux.
In order to achieve a better connection between the Glion-Rochers-de-Naye-Bahn and Montreux, the Montreux-Glion-Bahn, a 2.8-kilometer rack railway from Montreux to Glion, opened in 1909. It is built according to the same standards as the Glion-Rochers-de-Naye Railway, which enables continuous trains from Montreux to the summit. Because the then Jura-Simplon-Bahn (JS) did not want to provide space for the Montreux-Glion-Bahn in the Montreux station, the company bought a hotel directly at the station in order to tear it down and rebuild it with a separate station for the cogwheel railway.
The Montreux – Glion Railway was operated electrically from the start. Glion electrical Zahnradlokomotiven HGe 2/2 gave the MGL the Vorstellwagen the steam locomotives of Glion-Rochers-de-Naye train. This has been a thing of the past since the electrification of the Glion-Rochers-de-Naye Railway in 1938.
vehicles
Steam locomotives
- H 2/3 1 Montreux (1891) SLM (number 693), sold to the Monte Generoso Railway in 1956
- H 2/3 2 Lausanne (1891) SLM (number 694), broken off in 1938
- H 2/3 3 Vevey (1892) SLM (number 721), canceled in 1938
- H 2/3 4 Jaman (1892) SLM (number 722), sold to the Monte Generoso Railway in 1941
- H 2/3 5 Glion (1892) SLM (number 723), canceled in 1938
- H 2/3 6 Naye (1892) SLM (number 724), sold to the Monte Generoso Railway in 1942
- H 2/3 7 Caux (1903) SLM (number 1515), canceled in 1939
- H 2/3 8 Territet (1908) SLM (number 1909), sold to the Monte Generoso Railway in 1949
- H 2/3 1 "(1992) SLM (number 5457), sold to the Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn in 2005
Railcar
- Bhe 2/4 201 to 205 (1938) SLM (numbers 3680 to 3684), BBC. 201: out of order; 202 and 205: canceled, April 2007 1)
- Bhe 2/4 206 (1947) SLM (number 3939), BBC, canceled 07.2000 1)
- Bhe 2/4 207 (1949) SLM (number 3976), BBC 2)
- Bhe 2/4 208 (1966) SLM (number 4521), BBC, canceled 04.2007 3)
1) Originally delivered as BChe 2/4 to the Glion – Rochers-de-Naye Railway
2) Originally delivered as BChe 2/4 to the Montreux – Glion Railway
3) Originally as ABhe 2/4 to the Glion – Rochers Railway de Naye train delivered
- Bhe 4/8 301 Montreux (1983) SLM, Siemens a)
- Bhe 4/8 302 Veytaux (1983) SLM, Siemens a)
- Bhe 4/8 303 Villeneuve (1983) SLM, Siemens a)
- Bhe 4/8 304 La Tour de Peilz (1992) SLM, Siemens a)
- Bhe 4/8 305 (2010) MOB workshop Chernex, Siemens a)
a) Up to three railcars can be coupled and controlled via the multiple controls installed subsequently in the railcars Bhe 4/8 301 to 304 . The multiple control was built into the railcars Bhe 4/8 304 and 305 from the start.
Work vehicles
- HGe 2/2 2 (1909) cogwheel locomotive in nostalgic paint
- HGe 2/2 3 ex 101 ex 3 (1909) 1976 new locomotive body and new number, renumbered in 1998, derailed on September 8, 2011, then broken off
- Hm 2/2 4 (1973) bought from the Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn in 1995, derailed on August 24, 2010, since then stored
- Hem 2/2 11 (2013) Stadler Rail, for snow removal and business trips
- Hem 2/2 12 (2013) Stadler Rail, for snow removal and business trips
Passenger cars
- BC 2 (1892) SIG, Train Belle Epoque 1)
- BC 15 (1902) SIG, canceled in 1963 1)
- BC 16 (1904) SIG, Train Belle Epoque 1)
- BC 17 (1906) SIG, Train Belle Epoque 1)
- BC 18 (1909) SIG, sold to the Monte Generoso Railway in 1942 1)
- BC 2 (1909) SIG, Train Belle Epoque 2)
1) Originally delivered to the Glion – Rochers-de-Naye Railway
2) Originally delivered to the Montreux – Glion Railway
gallery
Rochers de Naye mountain station at 2041 m. ü. M. in August 2004
The Rochers de Naye in May 2002
Diesel locomotive Hm 2/2 4 in Glion in December 2009
Territet – Glion funicular
The Territet – Glion funicular , abbreviated TG , French Funiculaire Territet – Glion , is a funicular from Territet on Lake Geneva up to Glion. When it opened in 1883, it was the steepest funicular in the world with a gradient of 57 percent and was the most important feeder for the cog railway to the Rochers de Naye until 1909. With a length of 640 meters, it overcomes a height difference of 301 meters. The Territet – Glion funicular was originally a water ballast railway .
After extensive renovation and renovation work, combined with a long interruption in operations, the railway has been running fully automatically with new cars with a modern electric drive since 1975. One of the two original cable car cars was set up at the valley station as a reminder of the original railway.
After a further comprehensive modernization, combined with a shorter service interruption, the railway was opened again on October 9, 2009 with the new Collonge-Funi intermediate stop . The two revised funicular cars, which have been supplemented with an emergency exit, now have the gold-white colors of the GoldenPass group instead of the original red color.
Les Avants – Sonloup funicular
The funicular Les Avants-Sonloup , LAS for short , French Funiculaire Les Avants-Sonloup , officially Chemin de fer Les Avants-Sonloup , built and operates the funicular from Les Avants up to Sonloup, which opened in 1910. With a length of 530 meters, it overcomes a difference in altitude of 180 meters. The Les Avants valley station is in the immediate vicinity of the Montreux-Berner Oberland Railway station of the same name, which opened in 1901.
Vevey – Chardonne – Mont-Pèlerin funicular
The funicular Vevey – Chardonne – Mont-Pèlerin , abbreviated VCP , French Funiculaire Vevey – Chardonne – Mont-Pèlerin built the funicular from Vevey-Funi via Chardonne up to Mont Pèlerin , which opened in 1900. It has a length of 1580 meters and overcomes a difference in altitude of 415 meters. In addition to the valley and mountain stations, it has three intermediate stops.
The funicular was put back into operation on September 25, 2009 after a lengthy modernization, with the two funicular cars also being given a new structure.
literature
- Michel Grandguillaume, Gérald Hadorn, Jean Paillard, Jean-Louis Rochaix: Crémailléres et funiculaires Vaudois. Bureau vaudois d'adresses (BVA), Lausanne 1982.
- Edgar Styger, Jean-Charles Kollros: Un siècle à toute vapeur, Chemins de fer des Rochers-de-Naye, 1892-1992. MOB Group, Montreux – Bernese Oberland Railway. Clarens 1992
Individual evidence
- ^ Report from RTS with photo
- ↑ Report of the Accident Investigation Board (PDF)
- ↑ Report of the Accident Investigation Board (PDF)
- ↑ Timetable field 2054 Territet – Glion . In: Official course book . October 17, 2019 ( fahrplanfelder.ch [PDF]).
- ^ Funimag: VCP - Vevey Mont Pélerin
