CityRailTransit
Timeline of the Lausanne (Switzerland) Rail Transit Network

Narrow Gauge Railway (LEB)

05-11-1873: LE > Lausanne-Chauderon (former station) - Cheseaux (+6.9 km)
02-06-1874: LE > Cheseaux - Echallens (+6.8 km)
10-10-1889: LE > Assens - Echallens (3.4 km) rerouted
24-11-1889: CV > Echallens - Bercher (+8.6 km)
01-01-1913: LEB established
11-01-1936: LEB > Lausanne-Chauderon (former station) - Bercher (22.8 km) electrified
28-05-1995: LEB > Lausanne-Chauderon (former station) closed (-0.4 km) and Lausanne-Chauderon station added (+0.4 km)
05-05-2000: LEB > Lausanne-Chauderon - Lausanne-Flon (+0.5 km)

Metro (m2)

16-03-1877: La Ficelle > Lausanne-Flon - Ouchy (+1.485 km)
04-12-1879: Funiculaire pour la Ville > Lausanne-Flon - Lausanne-Gare (+0.318 km)
25-10-1954: Funiculaire pour la Ville > Lausanne-Flon - Lausanne-Gare (0.318 km) electrified [cog wheel train]
05-05-1958: La Ficelle > Lausanne-Flon - Ouchy (1.485 km) electrified [cog wheel train]
22-01-2006: La Ficelle > Lausanne-Flon - Ouchy (-1.485 km) electrified [cog wheel train] closed
22-01-2006: Funiculaire pour la Ville > Lausanne-Flon - Lausanne-Gare (-0.318 km) electrified [cog wheel train] closed
27-10-2008: m2 > Ouchy - Croisettes (+5.9 km)

Light Rail (m1)

24-05-1991: m1 > Lausanne-Flon - Renens-Gare (+7.760 km)



 




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