Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère
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The Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère (CEG) was the name finally adopted by the Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis-Bulle-Montbovon
(CBM) before operation started. (The 1903 federal rolling stock statistics already showed the company as CEG). In 1907 it was enlarged by the amalgamation of the Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis-Palézieux
(CP). To this system was added a short branch from Bulle to Broc, which opened in 1912.
The company operated a system of just 48.2 km with a main line from Montbovon, the junction with the MOB
, to Palézieux, on the SBB-CFF-FFS line between Bern and Lausanne. The Broc branch made up the total distance.
Two standard gauge operations joined in a further amalagamation on 1 January 1942 when together they formed the Chemins de fer Fribourgeois Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat
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Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis-Bulle-Montbovon
The Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis-Bulle-Montbovon planned a metre-gauge railway between the towns in its title. The line was constructed and opened in four stages: from Châtel-St-Denis to Vuadens, then to Bulle, then to La Tour-de-Trême and to Montbovon in 1904. At Châtel-St-Denis it formed an...
(CBM) before operation started. (The 1903 federal rolling stock statistics already showed the company as CEG). In 1907 it was enlarged by the amalgamation of the Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis-Palézieux
Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis-Palézieux
The Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis–Palézieux was opened in 1901, a metre gauge railway running between the places in its title — Châtel-St-Denis and Palézieux-Gare...
(CP). To this system was added a short branch from Bulle to Broc, which opened in 1912.
The company operated a system of just 48.2 km with a main line from Montbovon, the junction with the MOB
Montreux-Oberland Bernois
The Montreux-Oberland Bernois railway , is a railway operating in southwest Switzerland, one of the oldest electric railways in the country; its main line, in length, built to gauge, connects Montreux, Gstaad and Zweisimmen where passengers can transfer to a branch of the standard gauge...
, to Palézieux, on the SBB-CFF-FFS line between Bern and Lausanne. The Broc branch made up the total distance.
Two standard gauge operations joined in a further amalagamation on 1 January 1942 when together they formed the Chemins de fer Fribourgeois Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat
Chemins de fer Fribourgeois Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat
The Chemin de Fer Fribourgeois, Gruyère - Fribourg - Morat is a 1942 merger of two standard gauge and one gauge railways running mainly within the Swiss canton of Fribourg/Freiburg. The company also operates numerous regional buses in the same area...
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