Lausanne trolleybus

Lausanne trolleybus
Network plan
Power system :	600 V =
Operator:	TL
Opening:	October 2, 1932
Lines:	10
Vehicles:	24 solo cars, 62 articulated cars, 24 trailers

The Lausanne trolleybus is the largest and oldest trolleybus network in Switzerland . It was opened on October 2, 1932 and gradually replaced the previous tram from 1896 until 1964. Today, the transport company operates Transports publics de la région lausannoise - TL for short , formerly Tramways Lausannois - in Lausanne and the neighboring communities of Le Mont-sur-Lausanne , Lutry , Paudex , Prilly , Pully and Renens ten trolleybus lines . They are supplemented by various bus lines and the Métro Lausanne . Cugy , Epalinges and Froideville are no longer served after route adjustments . They are connected by the Lausanne metro (Epalinges) or the bus line 60 (Cugy and Froideville).

Lines

line	route	Stops	Travel time	min. Cycle sequence	Vehicle use
1	Maladière - Blécherette	23/22	36/35 minutes	6.5 minutes	Articulated trolley
2	Désert - Maladière-Lac	25/25	38/39 minutes	7.5 minutes	Articulated trolley
3	Lausanne-Gare - Bellevaux	12/12	20/18 minutes	010 mins	Articulated trolley
4th	Pully -Gare - Coudraie	20/20	26/28 minutes	7.5 minutes	Articulated trolley
6th	Maladière - Sallaz	19/19	31/30 minutes	010 mins	Articulated vehicles / trailer trains
7th	Renens -14 Avril - Val-Vert	24/23	20/26 minutes	7.5 minutes	Trailer trains
8th	Verrière - Grand-Mont	32/31	41/40 minutes	010 mins	Articulated trolley
9	Lutry -Corniche - Prilly -Eglise	25/26	40/41 minutes	6.5 minutes	Articulated vehicles / trailer trains
21st	Lausanne-Gare - Blécherette	14/14	21/20 minutes	7.5 minutes	Articulated trolley
25th	Bourdonnette - Pully-Gare	19/19	24/21 minutes	011 minutes	Articulated trolley

Line 8 has been running beyond Bellevaux to Grand-Mont since December 2009, but the TL only started at the beginning of 2011 with the 3.3 kilometer extension of the catenary . Until it was completed in December 2011, every second route on line 8 - the extension was initially only served every 20 minutes - with articulated buses. When installing the contact line, masts from the former overland line 20 to Montheron could be used in some cases. The line was operated electrically until 1993, the contact line dismantled in 1998. It was the last trolleybus line in Switzerland that was part of regional traffic and therefore entitled to compensation.

vehicles

Current inventory

The TL trolleybus fleet consists of 24 high-floor solo and 62 low-floor articulated cars . The former have an additional 24 low-floor trailers available. Since October 2017, the Lausanne trolleybus has been the last company in the world to use this form of operation. The trailer trains are to be replaced by double articulated vehicles by 2022 . Solo cars without a trailer are no longer in use today, most recently they ran on line 6.

Numbers	piece	Manufacturer	Electrics	Type	Art	low-floor	Years of construction
751-754, 763, 766, 768, 772, 774-782, 784-785, 787, 789-792	24	NAW / Lauber	BBC Sécheron	91 T	Solo car	No	1986-1990
831-865	35	Hess	Box	BGT-N2C	Articulated trolley	Yes	2009-2010
866-892	27	Hess	Box	BGT-N2D	Articulated trolley	Yes	2012-2013
902-907, 910-914, 916, 919-930	24	Hess / Lanz + Marti	no		pendant	Yes	1990-2006

The 751–753 and 766 cars are primarily used as driving school cars, but can also be used for regular passenger traffic if required.

Former inventory and museum car

Numbers	piece	Manufacturer	Electrics	Type	Art	low-floor	Years of construction
001-3	03	FBW / SWS	BBC		Solo car	No	1932
004-35	32	FBW / Eggli	BBC		Solo car	No	1938-1939
041-48	08th	FBW / Eggli	BBC	51	Solo car	No	1951
651-675	25th	FBW / Eggli	BBC	71	Solo car	No	1963-1964
676-679	04th	FBW / Eggli	BBC		Solo car	No	1969
701-718	18th	FBW / Hess	SAAS	91 T	Solo car	No	1975-1976
721-750	30th	FBW / Hess	BBC Sécheron	91 T	Solo car	No	1982-1984
755-759, 760-762, 765, 767, 769-771, 773-774, 783, 786, 788	18th	NAW / Lauber	BBC Sécheron	91 T	Solo car	No	1986-1990
800-827	28	Neoplan	Box	N 6121	Articulated tram, duo bus	Yes	2001-2002
901, 908-909, 915, 917-918	06th	Hess / Lanz + Marti	no		pendant	Yes	1990-2006
931-950	20th	Moser / Eggli	no		pendant	Yes	1963-1964
951-973	23	Rochat / Lauber	no		pendant	No	1974-1979
981	01	Hess / Lanz + Marti	no		Trailer, prototype	Yes	1986

The 981 trailer was phased out in 2010 and has been owned by the RétroBus Léman museum association ever since . It is the first low-floor trolleybus vehicle in Switzerland. Car 2 from the opening year 1932 has also been preserved as a museum and is now the oldest trolleybus in Europe. More recently, TL has also given used cars to the Freiburg trolleybus (701, 702, 703 and 709), to the Romanian cities of Sibiu and Ploieşti, and to the Bulgarian city of Ruse .

Depots

The trolleybus trolleys in Lausanne are housed in the two depots at La Borde and Perrelet .

La Borde is located north of the city center in the area of the Vieux-Moulin stop on the route of lines 3 and 8. Access is via a short ramp from the intersection of the eponymous Avenue de la Borde and Avenue du Vieux-Moulin .

The Perrelet depot is located in the far east of the Renens municipality, in the middle of the tracks on the Lausanne – Geneva railway line at Chemin de Closel . From here, an electrified operating line leads over the Chemin du Viaduc through a railway underpass to Route de Renens , on which Line 7 runs largely parallel to the tracks to Renens to the west of the city center.