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From Bercher to Lausanne-Flon on the LEB line (Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher).
Located in Switzerland, this regional metre-gauge train line connects the Canton of Vaud’s capital, Lausanne, to the cute village of Bercher. Under ongoing massive infrastructure upgrades since the early 2010s (new rolling stock, remote-controlled block system, higher-frequency service, more double track sections, removal of level crossings), the LEB line is required to serve its area’s rapid development.
Have a seat in the cockpit, sit back, and enjoy your journey from village to village, and let yourself float from the Gros-de-Vaud countryside to the heart of Lausanne.
Construction of the line:
- 1873: Lausanne-Chauderon - Cheseaux opens
- 1874: extension Cheseaux - Echallens
- 1889: extension Echallens - Bercher
- 2000: extension Lausanne-Chauderon - Lausanne-Flon (tunnel)
Recent infrastructure upgrades:
- 1995: Lausanne-Chauderon station is made underground
- 1998: renovation of Echallens station
- 1999: opening of Les Ripes stop
- 2001: renovation of Cheseaux station
- 2011: renovation of Romanel-sur-Lausanne station
- 2013: remote-controlled block system between Union-Prilly and Cheseaux
- 2014: remote-controlled block system between Lausanne-Flon and Union-Prilly
- 2017: renovation of Assens station and remote control
- 2018: track doubling at Les Ripes and remote control
- 2019: renovation of Sugnens station and installation of remote control for Echallens and Sugnens stations
Passenger rolling stock (as of April 2019):
- 2 Be 4/4 railcars, SWS/SAAS, # 26-27 (1966)
- 3 Be 4/8 railcars, Vevey/ABB, # 31-33 (1985)
- 3 Be 4/8 railcars, Vevey/ABB, # 34-36 (1985)
- 6 RBe 4/8 railcars, Stadler, # 41-46 (2010)
- 4 RBe 4/8 railcars, Stadler, # 47-50 (2017)
This video was shot in April 2019 with a Go-Pro Hero 6 action-cam on the RBe 4/8 # 49 railcar.
Timecodes :
- 00:05 Bercher station (Northern terminus)
- 01:25 Fey-Bercher LC (announced by a blinking control lamp)
- 02:47 Fey-Possens LC (announced by a protection signal)
- 02:52 : Fey stop (block signal)
- 03:50 Fey-Ruchetta LC (announced by a block/protection signal)
- 04:00 Fey-Sugnens LC (announced by a block/protection signal)
- 05:18 rural LC (no boom barriers, preceded by an “activate horn” sign)
- 05:51 Sugnens LC (announced by a protection signal)
- 05:53 Sugnens station (renovation in progress, speed limit 40 km/h during the works)
- 07:42 rural LC (no boom barriers, preceded by an “activate horn” sign)
- 08:29 Silo LC (announced by a blinking control lamp)
- 08:40 Grésaley stop
- 09:50 Sur Roche stop (renovation in progress, temporarily not in use, speed limit 50 km/h during the works)
- 10:06 Sur Roche LC (announced by a blinking control lamp)
- 10:15 Stand LC (announced by a blinking control lamp)
- 10:58 Echallens station (control centre of the line, workshop/depot, staffed ticket office)
- 12:39 Les Abattoirs LC (announced by Echallens’s exit signal)
- 13:14 La Villaire LC (announced by a blinking control lamp)
- 13:44 rural LC (no boom barriers, preceded by an “activate horn” sign)
- 15:11 Assens station
- 17:41 Cantonal road 401 LC (announced by a blinking control lamp)
- 17:50 Etagnières stop
- 17:57 L’Auberge LC (announced by a blinking control lamp and repeated by Les Ripes’s entry signal)
- 19:29 Les Ripes station (track doubling in progress, speed limit 50 km/h during the works)
- 20:50 Morrens LC (announced by Cheseaux’s entry signal)
- 20:54 private LC
- 21:11 Cheseaux station
- 22:34 Bel-Air LEB stop
- 22:57 Bel-Air LC (announced by a blinking control lamp)
- 23:32 block signal
- 23:51 Vernand-Camarès stop
- 24:45 Raffort LC (announced by a blinking control lamp and repeated by Romanel-sur-Lausanne’s entry signal)
- 25:06 Taulard LC (announced by Romanel-sur-Lausanne’s entry signal)
- 25:20 Brit LC (announced by Romanel-sur-Lausanne’s entry signal)
- 25:23 Romanel-sur-Lausanne station
- 27:19 Le Lussex LC (announced by a blinking control lamp)
- 27:24 Le Lussex stop
- 28:59 Beau-Cèdre LC (announced by Jouxtens-Mézery’s entry signal)
- 29:11 Jouxtens-Mézery station
- 30:27 Cery-Fleur-de-Lys stop
- 31:44 Prilly-Chasseur LC (announced by a blinking control lamp)
- 31:50 Prilly-Chasseur stop
- 33:06 Vieux-Collège LC (announced by Union-Prilly’s entry signal)
- 33:16 Union-Prilly station
- 34:57 temporary bridge (allows the construction of a new tunnel between Lausanne-Chauderon and Union-Prilly stations, which should be achieved by late 2020)
- 35:43 Montétan stop
- 36:15 Montétan LC (announced by a tram-style signal)
- 37:15 Parking A2 LC (announced by a tram-style signal)
- 37:37 block signal, Parking A1 LC (repeated by the block signal)
- 37:49 Lausanne-Chauderon - Lausanne-Flon tunnel
- 38:37 Lausanne-Chauderon station
- 39:55 Lausanne-Flon station (Southern terminus)