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The Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans (CEV) was a railway company that built and operated narrow gauge electric railway lines from
Vevey Vevey (; ; ) is a town in Switzerland in the Vaud, canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Leman, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used. It was the seat of the Vevey (district), district of the same name until 200 ...
to
Blonay Blonay () is a former municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Blonay and Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz merged into the new municipality of Blonay - ...
, Chamby, Châtel-St-Denis and Les Pléiades, in
Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. It began operations in 1902. The CEV and three other companies merged to become the
Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera The Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera (MVR) is a Swiss railway company. It was formed in 2001 from the merger of four railway companies: the Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans, the Chemin de fer Les Avants-Sonloup, the Chemin de fer Montre ...
in 2001. The
Vevey–Les Pléiades railway line 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, in the Swiss Prealps. The line is owned and operated by Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera (MVR). ...
remains in active use.


History

The first section to see service, that from Vevey to Chamby, was opened on 1 October 1902. Next section was the branch line from St-Légier to Châtel–St-Denis that opened on 2 April 1904. On 8 July 1911 the rack line from Blonay to Les Pléiades was opened. On 23 November 1911, Blonay was also reached by the Clarens - Chailly - Blonay electric tramway operated by a separate company (CCB). This closed at the end of 1955, being replaced by buses. The lines were constructed to a gauge of and electrified from the outset. Presently it operates on 900 V DC, overhead contact. Train services were offered from Vevey to Chamby and Châtel-St-Denis, where the CEV connected to the
Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line The Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line is a metre-gauge electric railway line in Switzerland run by the Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (MOB) and links Montreux on Lake Geneva by way of Les Avants, Montbovon, Rossinière, Château-d'Œx, Rou ...
and the GFM (now tpf). The electric motor coach from Vevey to Chamby conveyed coaches to Blonay, where they were taken over by a rack locomotive and brought up to Les Pléiades. On 22 May 1966, the section Blonay–Chamby was closed, followed by St-Légier–Châtel-St-Denis on 31 May 1969. While the Châtel-St-Denis branch was torn up, track to Chamby remained. Railway enthusiasts formed an association which could set up a weekend museum operation starting on 20 July 1968. On 24 May 1998 CEV reintroduced regular trains but stopped these services again two years later because of low patronage. The infrastructure was always owned by CEV and the museum trains of the Blonay-Chamby museum railway operate in open access. Of the remaining open sections, the Vevey to Blonay line is long and from there to Les Pléiades a further . In that , the line rises some reaching at Les Pléiades. The line has its own workshops at Vevey although much work is undertaken at the MOB's Chernex works and also a small depot at Blonay. In 2001, CEV was merged into the
Transports Montreux-Vevey-Riviera Transports may refer to: * Military transport aircraft * a Ministry of Transport * Dow Jones Transportation Average * ''The Transports ''The Transports'' is a folk ballad opera written by Peter Bellamy released by Free Reed Records in 1977. I ...
(MVR) which is managed and operated by the MOB management under their ''Golden Pass Services'' banner.


Rolling stock

*Note 1: This class are labeled ''Chemin de fer Léger de la Riviera'', Two of them are usually to be found working on the Vevey - Blonay line whilst the other two are found working from Montreux. The numbering scheme used is that of the
Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line The Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line is a metre-gauge electric railway line in Switzerland run by the Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (MOB) and links Montreux on Lake Geneva by way of Les Avants, Montbovon, Rossinière, Château-d'Œx, Rou ...
. *Note 2: Rotary plough blowers by Boschung Schmitten on downhill end, double plough blades in 'V' formation at uphill end, mounted on underframe of L 401. *Note 3: This railcar was the first to be released from works with the new "golden pass" logo. The lower panel, below the main saloon, was repainted in red and the cream coloured logo applied.(First week in May 2010). *Note 4: Motor coaches 101–105 delivered as BCFe 4/4 (2nd and 3rd class plus luggage, adhesion only), became ABFe 4/4 in 1956, ABDe 4/4 in 1963 and BDe 4/4 in 1970, when first class was abolished on CEV. *Note 5: Locomotives 1–3 were delivered as HGe 2/2 for rack & adhesion. 1950/51 they were rebuilt to rack only and became thus He 2/2. *Note 6: This railcar was the first to appear in Golden Pass white/gold livery in October 2011. *Note 7: These eight sets, 7501 - 8, are part of the re-equipment of the CEV, 2017 - 2019, to give a more frequent service from July 2019. No.7501 was released to traffic in December 2015 in the midnight blue and white livery similar to that formally used on the Golden Pass Panorama trains. The set is similar to the Stadler "Flirt" trains used elsewhere in Europe but this in metre gauge format.


Abbreviations

* ABB =
ABB Group ABB Group is a Swedish-Swiss multinational electrical engineering corporation. Incorporated in Switzerland as ABB Ltd., and headquartered in Zurich, it is dual-listed on the Nasdaq Nordic exchange in Stockholm, Sweden, and the SIX Swiss Exch ...
* ACMV =
Ateliers de constructions mécaniques de Vevey Ateliers de constructions mécaniques de Vevey (ACMV) was a metal engineering company based in Vevey, Switzerland. Founded as ''Ateliers B. Roy & Cie.'' in 1848 by Benjamin Roy it became ''Ateliers de constructions mécaniques de Vevey SA'' in 189 ...
* BBC =
Brown, Boveri & Cie Brown, Boveri & Cie. (Brown, Boveri & Company; BBC) was a Swiss group of electrical engineering companies. It was founded in Baden bei Zürich, in 1891 by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri who worked at the Maschinenfabrik Oer ...
* CEV = Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans * MFO =
Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon was a Swiss engineering company based in the Zürich district of Oerlikon (Zürich), Oerlikon known for the early development of electric locomotives. It was founded in 1876 as the ''Werkzeug- und Maschinen-Fabrik Oer ...
* MOB =
Montreux-Oberland Bernois The Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (, , abbreviated MOB) is a company that operates an electrified railway line, the Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line, in southwest Switzerland, one of the oldest electric railways in the country. Its main lin ...
* R+J =
Ramseier + Jenzer Ramseier is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Mikhail W. Ramseier (born 1964), Swiss writer * Daniel Ramseier (born 1963), Swiss equestrian * David Ramseier (born 1987), Swiss-French basketball player * Doris Ramseier (born 1939), ...
* SAAS =
Société Anonyme des Ateliers de Sécheron Groupe Lactalis S.A. (doing business as Lactalis) is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier S.A. Lactalis is the largest dairy pr ...
, Geneva * SIG =
Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft SIG Group AG is a Swiss multinational corporation and one of the biggest manufacturers in the packaging industry. Originally founded 1853 as a railway car producer named ''Schweizerische Waggonfabrik'' ("Swiss Wagon Factory"), it was renamed ...
* SLM =
Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (German Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik; French Société Suisse pour la Construction de Locomotives et de Machines; or for both, SLM) was a railway equipment manufacturer based in Winterthur in Swi ...
, Winterthur * SWP = Schindler Waggon Pratteln


Sources

*Michel Grandguillaume, Gérald Hadorn, Jean Paillard, Jean-Louis Rochaix: ''Crémaillères et funiculaires vaudois.'' BVA, Lausanne 1982, *Michel Grandguillaume, Gérald Hadorn, Sébastien Jarne, Jean-Louis Rochaix: ''Voies étroites de Veveyse et de Gruyère.'' BVA, Lausanne 1984, *Rochaix et al.: ''Chemins de fer privés vaudois 1873 - 2000.'' Editions La Raillère, CH-1092 Belmont 2000, *Rochaix et al.: ''Chemins de fer privés vaudois 2000 - 2009.'' Editions La Raillère, CH-1092 Belmont 2009,


References

www.blonaychamby.ch ''(Histoire du chemin de fer Vevey-Blonay-Chamby de 1902 á 2002)''


External links


Goldenpass
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