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Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway

Coordinates: 46°27′56″N 6°53′45″E / 46.4656°N 6.8958°E / 46.4656; 6.8958
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Blonay–Chamby museum railway
Electric railcar BCFe 4/4 11 and passenger car BC4 22 of the Montreux-Oberland Bernois railway (MOB)
Service
Route number151
Technical
Line length2.95 km (1.83 mi)
Track gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge
ElectrificationOverhead lines (900 V DC)
Maximum incline5  %
Route map
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The Blonay–Chamby museum railway (French: Chemin de fer-musée Blonay-Chamby, BC) is a short 3-kilometre-long (1.9 mi) steep but adhesion worked metre gauge heritage railway operated as part of the Blonay - Chamby Railway Museum using vintage steam and electric locomotives and rolling stock. It is rail-connected at both ends, at its upper terminus, at Chamby with the Chemin de Fer Montreux Oberland Bernoise and at the lower end, Blonay, with the Vevey - Les Pleiades, Chemin de fer électriques Veveysans, line.

History and Aims

The Blonay - Chamby Railway and Museum was opened in 1968 with the aims of operating the metre gauge railway line from Blonay to Chamby and in doing so preserving railway equipment of technical or historic value. For this purpose the Blonay - Chamby Railway has purpose built two motive power and carriage depots at Chaulin - Chamby, a short distance from its upper terminus which nowadays houses what is generally regarded as the largest and most representative collection of metre gauge relics in Europe.

The Museum Line

The Blonay - Chamby Museum Railway is a railway preservation group staffed entirely by volunteers who operate trains each Saturday and Sunday between May and October. Vintage steam locomotives or electric locomotives haul equally vintage carriages slowly through a spectacular environment with fine views over Lake Geneva and the Alps. Visitors can access the shed / museum complex from Chamby, travelling the short distance on a vintage tram.

A further part of the remit of the preservation group is the encouragement of local and regional tourism and tourist traffic on adjacent lines. The timetable for the Blonay - Chamby line can be found on Table 115 and 115.1 of the Swiss National Railways Timetable.

The Museum Collection

The collection includes in spring 2009 the following items. The museum is the home of over 70 items of rolling stock.

Steam Locomotives

Steam Locomotives

Steam locomotive HG 3/4 3 of the Brig–Furka–Disentis-Railway
Picture No. Name Class Cyls. Builders Details Works. No. Date Built Notes.
1 Le Doubs G 3/3 OC SLM 618 1890 Ex-Regional des Brenets (RdB)/Chemins de fer des Montagnes Neuchateloises (CMN)/On loan from Swiss Transport Museum Luzern.
3 HG 3/4 OC SLM 2317 1913 Ex-Brig–Furka–Disentis railway (BFD), Furka Oberalp Railway (FO) (Abt rack)
5 Bercher G 3/3 OC SACM 4172 1890 Ex-Lausanne–Echallens–Bercher railway (LEB), barrage de la Dixence (EOS), Hilti & Jehle, Feldkirch.
6 G 3/3 OC SLM 1341 1901 Ex-Brünigbahn/Jura-Simplon JS 909, SBB 109, Biere-Apples-Morge (BAM) No.6, Scierie Renfer, Bienne.
23 G 3/5 OC MTM 282 1926 Ex-Olot-Gerona
104 Zell[1] G 2x3/3 OC Hanomag 10437 1925 Ex-SEG, Mallet type, 0-6-6-0T, Compound
105 Todtnau[2][3][4] G 2x2/2 OC MBG 2051 1918 Ex-Haspe-Voerde-Breckerfeld (Germany), Mallet type, 0-4-4-0T, Compound
99 193 G 5/5 OC MFE 4183 1927 Ex-Deutsche Reichbahn, Deutsche Bundesbahn.

Tramway Steam Locomotives

Picture No. Name Class Cyls. Builders Details Works. No. Date Built Notes.
4 Rimini G 2/2 OC Krauss 4278 1900 Ex-Ferrara-Codigoro (Ferrovie Padane) Rimini-Novafeltria.
7 G 2/4 System Brown SLM 316 1882 Ex-Mulhouse Tramways

Electric Locomotives, Railcars and Trams

Locomotives

Picture No. Name Class Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes.
2 La Grisette He 2/2 SLM / CIE 1899 Ex-Bex-Villars-Bretaye (BVB)
29[5] - HGe 3/3 SLM / MFO 1926 Ex-Bernese Oberland railway (BOB)
75 - Ge 4/4 SLM / MFO 2328 1913 Ex-Georg Fischer (+GF+)
81 - Ge 4/4 SLM / BBC 1916 Ex-Berninabahn (BB), Rhaetian Railway (RhB)

Railcars

Electric railcars BCFeh 4/4 6 of the Aigle–Ollon–Monthey–Champéry railway
Picture No. Name Class/Type Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes.
4 - BCFe 2/2 SIG / MFO 1928 Ex-Sernftalbahn (SeTB)
6 Valais[6] BCFeh 4/4 SLM / SIG / EGA 146 1909 Ex-Monthey–Champéry–Morgins railway (MCM), Aigle–Ollon–Monthey–Champery railway (AOMC), Abt rack
10 - BCFeh 4/4 SLM / SWS / BBC 1914 Ex-Loèche–Loèche-les-Bains railway (LLB), Abt rack
11 les sept à vingt BCFe 4/4 SIG / EGA 2191 1903 Ex-Montreux-Oberland Bernois (MOB)
12 - Ce 2/2 Ringhoffer / EAG 1907 Ex-Langenthal–Jura railway (LJB), Oberaargau–Jura railway (OJB)
35 - ABe 4/4I SIG / SAAS / MFO 1908 Ex-Bernina railway (BB), Rhaetian Railway (RhB)
105 - ABDe 4/4 SWS / MFO 1913 Ex-Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans (CEV), 2017
2002 - DZe 6/6 SIG / BBC 2703 1932 Ex-Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway (MOB), 2008

Trams

Electric tram Ce 2/2 52 of the Städtische Strassenbahn Bern
Picture No. Name Class/Type Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes.
7 - Ce 2/2 Rat / CIE 1904 Ex-Tramway de Fribourg (TF)
28 - Ce 2/3 SWS / SAAS 1948 Ex-Tramways Lausannois (TL)
31 - Ze 2/2 SIG / EGA 1914 Ex-Rheintalische Strassenbahn (Rhine Valley Tramways) (RhSt)
52 - Ce 2/2 SWS / MFO 1914 Ex-Städtische Strassenbahn, Bern (SSB)
76 - Ce 2/2 SIG / MFO 1911 Ex-Tramways de Neuchâtel (TN)
151 - Fe 4/4 SIG / S&H 1911 Ex-Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques (CGTE)

Passenger Coach

Picture No. Name Class/Type Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes.
2 - As2 SIG 1903 Ex-Rhaetian Railway Bernina Line (RhB)
6[7] Kaiserwagen[8] B3 SIG 1901 Ex-Bernese Oberland railway (BOB), Ex-Modelleisenbahnfreunde Eiger Zweilütschinen (MEFEZ)
7 - C4 ANF 1910 Ex-Chemin de fer Vicinaux de la Haute-Saône (CFV), Morez-La Cure (MLC), Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez railway (NStCM)
10 - BC2 1908 Ex-Monthey-Champéry-Morgins (MCM), Aigle-Ollon-Monthey-Champery (AOMC)
11 - BC2 SIG 1890 Ex-Régional des Brenets (RdB)
13 - C2 MAN 1905 Ex-Sernftalbahn (SeTB)
15 - ABCFZ4 De Dietrich 1895 Ex-Cie de l'Ouest, Chemins de fer de l'Etat (ETAT), Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais (SNCF)/Réseau Breton (RB)
20 Reine Berthe[9] C2 Chevalier, Chailus & Cie à Paris 1865 Ex-Lausanne–Echallens–Bercher railway (LEB), original Mont Cenis Pass Railway, 2016
21 - CF2 SIG 1900 Ex-Aigle–Leysin railway (AL)
21 - BC2 SWS 1902 Ex-Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans (CEV)
21 Giardiniera[10] C2 SWS 1911 Ex-Lugano–Cadro–Dino railway (LCD)
21 - CF2 SIG 1890 Ex-Régional des Brenets (RdB)
22 - BC4 SIG 1915 Ex-Loèche - Loèche-les-Bains (LLB)
22 - BC4 SIG 1901 Ex-Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway (MOB)
23 - C2 SWS 1903 Ex-Gruyère–Fribourg–Morat railway (GFM)
44 - C4 SIG 1926 Ex-Berner Oberland Bahn (BOB)
61 - B4 SIG 1906 Ex-Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway (MOB)
121 - AB2 SIG 1903 Ex-Rhaetian Railway (RhB)
171 - C4 Herbrand 1891 Ex-Mittelbadische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (MEG)
811 - C4 SIG 1930 Ex-Swiss Federal Railways, line Brünig (SBB-CFF-FFS),

Tramway Passenger Coach

Picture No. Name Class Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes
57 - C2 SIG 1930 Ex-Tramway Vevey–Montreux–Chillon–Villeneuve (VMCV), Ex-Bex–Villars–Bretaye Railway (BVB)
370 - C4 SIG 1920 Ex-Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques (CGTE)

Post and Baggage Coach

Picture No. Name Class Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes.
36 - FZ2 SWS 1903 Ex-Gruyère–Fribourg–Morat railway (GFM)

Goods wagon

Open wagon LO 153 du Montreux-Oberland Bernois Railway
Picture No. Name Class Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes.
30 - K Kirchheim 1874 Ex-Schweizerische Lokalbahnen (SLB), Appenzeller Bahn (AB)
31 - K MAN 1905 Ex-Sernftalbahn (SeTB)
31 - K SWS 1910 Ex-Tramways de Lausanne (TL)
41 - K SWS 1915 Ex-Loèche–Loèche-les-Bains railway (LLB)
51 - M SWS 1915 Ex-Loèche–Loèche-les-Bains railway (LLB)
60 - L SWS 1915 Ex-Loèche–Loèche-les-Bains railway (LLB)
87 - K SWS 1912 Ex-Aigle–Leysin railway (AL)
101 - K SIG 1903 Ex-Montreux-Oberland Bernois (MOB), 2014
153 - LO SIG 1901 Ex-Montreux-Oberland Bernois (MOB)
610 - K SWS 1904 Ex-Gruyère–Fribourg–Morat railway (GFM)
672 - K GFM 1955 Ex-Gruyère–Fribourg–Morat railway (GFM)
706 - M Busch 1904 Ex-Montreux-Oberland Bernois (MOB)
712 - L SWS 1905 Ex-Gruyère–Fribourg–Morat railway (GFM)
801 - O Busch 1904 Ex-Montreux-Oberland Bernois (MOB)

Diesel Locomotives, Shunters and Maintenance vehicles

Picture No. Name Class/Type Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes.
1 - Tm 2/2 O&K, Berlin 20200 1930 Ex-Montreux-Oberland Bernois (MOB), ex Holzwerks Rieder St. Stephan
3 Biniou Dm 2/2 Billard Ex-Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais (SNCF)/Réseau Breton (RB)
926 - Te 2/2 StStZ / MFO 1935 Shunter, Ex-Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ)
- Dm 1/2 Draisine motorized, Ex-Rhaetian Railway (RhB)
- Dd 1/2 Draisine hand drive, Ex-Rhaetian Railway (RhB)

Rotary Snowplow

Picture No. Name Class Cyls. Builders Details Works. No. Date Built Notes.
9214 - Xrot d OC SLM 2299 1912 Rotary snowplow, ex-Bernina railway, Rhaetian Railway (RhB), Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstecke (DFB). 0-6-6-0

Service Coach Stock

Picture No. Name Class/Type Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes.
1 - Xe 2/2 SWS / MFO 1915 cistern for fire service - Ex-Tramway de Bienne (TrB)
52 - X2 joinery - Ex-Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans (CEV)
52 - X2 SWS 1915 cran truck - Ex-Loèche - Loèche-les-Bains (LLB)
9951 - X3 SIG 1889 refectory - Ex-Swiss Federal Railways, line Brünig (SBB-CFF-FFS), ex. JBL C3 466

Placed external line Blonay-Chamby

Picture No. Name Class/Type Builders Details Works No. Date Built Notes.
121 Baladeuse C4 Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Basel 1892 Ex-Tramways de Neuchâtel (TN), permanent loan to Musée du tram Neuchâtel, Association Neuchâteloise des Amis du Tramway (ANAT)
125 - Ce 2/2 SIG / SAAS 1920 Ex-Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques (CGTE), permanent loan to Association Genevoise du Musée des Tramways (AGMT)
230 - C2 SWS 1905 Ex-Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat (GFM)

Former vehicles

Picture No. Name Class/Type Builders Details Works No. Date Built Location Notes.
40 - K SWS 1915 Inden, Switzerland Ex-Loèche–Loèche-les-Bains railway (LLB), sale at the municipality Inden, Switzerland in 2017
671 - K GFM 1955 Broc Fabrique (Nestlé), Switzerland Ex-Gruyère–Fribourg–Morat railway (GFM), ex Blonay–Chamby museum railway, submitted to GFM Historique in 2020

Abbreviations (Selection)

Rolling stock manufacturers

Steam Locomotive Cylinders

  • OC : Cylinders outside frames
  • IC : Cylinders inside frames

Literature

  • Sébastien Jarne, Le chemin de fer-musée Blonay-Chamby, tiré à part du livre « Voies étroites de Veveyse et de Gruyère », édition Chemin de fer-musée Blonay-Chamby, Lausanne, éd. 2, 1991, 56 p.
  • José Banaudo and Alex Rieben, À la découverte du Chemin de fer-musée Blonay-Chamby, Édition du Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya, 1992, ISBN 978-2-903310-98-1.
  • Peter Willen, Lokomotiven und Triebwagen der Schweizer Bahnen, volume 2, Privatbahnen Westschweiz und Wallis. Orell Füssli Verlag, Zürich, 1977, ISBN 3-280-00923-5.
  • Alain Candellero, Charles-Maurice Emery, Brice Maillard and Nicolas Regamey, 40 ans de musée vivant, Chemin de fer musée Blonay-Chamby 1968-2008, édition Chemin de fer-musée Blonay-Chamby, Lausanne, avril 2008, 32 p.
  • Users Wikipedia: Museumsbahn Blonay-Chamby, ein Auszug aus Wikipedia Anfangs 2011, E-book,[11] 2011, 52 p.
  • Alain Castella and Charles-Maurice Emery: Faire la Voie, Chemin de fer-Musée Blonay-Chamby, Département de la formation, de la jeunesse et de la culture (DFJC) – Service des affaires culturelles (SERAC) of Canton de Vaud,[12] Lausanne, 2010
  • Michel Grandguillaume, Gérald Hadorn, Sébastien Jarne, Jean-Louis Rochaix, François Ramstein: Voies étroites de Veveyse et de Gruyère. Bureau vaudois d'addresses (BVA), Lausanne 1984, ISBN 2-88125-003-3

References

  1. ^ www.echtdampfwelt.de, Herrmann Echtdampf, Echtdampfshop, Echtdampflok SEG-Mallet - Picture Archived 2013-01-02 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved 13 August 2013)
  2. ^ www.drehscheibe-foren.de, Drehscheben Online, Forum, Schmalspurdampf ex Zell-Todtnau auf der GFM, 1973, mit 24 Fotos - first picture (Retrieved 13 August 2013)
  3. ^ www.youtube.com Youtube Film LGB Mallet SEG104 + eMOTION XLS Sounddecoder (mit sichtbarem Wappen von Zell) (Abgerufen am 15. August 2013)
  4. ^ www.bahnbilder.de Bahnbilder.de, Bild 185576, BC - Museumsbahn ex SEG G 2x 3/3 104 am 19.05.1997 in Chaulin - Dampflok - Name: ZELL - Baujahr 1925... (Abgerufen am 15. August 2013)
  5. ^ Neues in Kürze (Nik), Museums- und Touristikbahnen BC in Eisenbahn Amateur (Swiss railway and model railway magazine) 02/2014 page 69 (German)
  6. ^ Ralph Bernet und Timi Rizza: Schweizer Schmalspurbahnen, Historische Loks & Triebwagen. Band 1, Edition Lan, Bäretswil 2013, ISBN 9783906691718
  7. ^ www.eurolok.ch Kaiserwagen in Interlaken Ost, retrieved 10 February 2014
  8. ^ Wolfgang Finke: Die Fahrzeuge der Jungfraubahnen - Berner Oberland-Bahn (BOB), Jungfraubahn (JB), Mürrenbahn (BLM), tram-TV Verlag, Köln 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813669-2-1 (German)
  9. ^ Blonay–Chamby museum railway, www.blonay-chamby.ch, Le parc remorqué s'agrandit de 2 unités, September 2016, retrieved 17 September 2016
  10. ^ Christian Ammann: Begegnungen mit der LCD in: Eisenbahn Amateur (Zeitschrift) Nr. 1, 2017, Seiten 24 bis 29.
  11. ^ chaulin.jimdo.com Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway, private internet page in German language, Blonay-Chamby Ebook, retrieved 25 November 2012
  12. ^ issuu.com Faire le Voie, retrieved 25 November 2012

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