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

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, to Palézieux, on the

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line between Bern and Lausanne. The Broc branch made up the total distance. Two standard gauge operations joined in a further amalgamation on 1 January 1942 when together they formed the

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. Between 1929 and 1932, the CEG also operated the

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, an early trolleybus operation, which was taken over from the Compagnie des omnibus électriques Fribourg–Farvagny, before the whole company merged into the CEG in 1930.

Sources

Grandguillaume Michel, et al., Voies étroites de Veveyse et de Gruyère. BVA, Lausanne, 1984, {{DEFAULTSORT:Chemins de fer electriques de la Gruyere Defunct railway companies of Switzerland Metre gauge railways in Switzerland Railway lines in Switzerland Railway companies disestablished in 1942