The Vevey–Les Pléiades railway line is a railway line in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It runs from , on Lake Geneva, to

Les Pléiades Les Pléiades (1,397 m) are a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, overlooking Lake Geneva in the Swiss canton of Vaud. They are located north of Blonay. A railway connects Vevey and Blonay to a secondary summit (1,361 m) of Les Pléiades. The railwa ...

, in the

Swiss Prealps The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps (german: Schweizer Alpen, french: Alpes suisses, it, Alpi svizzere, rm, Alps svizras), represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swis ...

. The line is owned and operated by Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera (MVR). It was originally built by the

Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans The Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans (CEV) was a railway company that built and operated narrow gauge electric railway lines from Vevey to Blonay, Chamby, Châtel-St-Denis and Les Pléiades, in Switzerland. It began operations in 1902. T ...

(CEV).

History

The Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans opened a line between and on 1 October 1902. The extension from to opened on 8 July 1911. The CEV and three other companies merged to become the Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera on 1 January 2001.

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