Trolleybuses in Montreux/Vevey
The trolley bus - Vevey Villeneuve is a trolleybus overland route in the Swiss canton of Vaud. The 12.75 km long route is a line 201 - until December 11, 2010 Line 1 - integrated into the local bus network of the operator company Transports publics Vevey- Montreux- Chillon -Villeneuve ( VMCV ). The line passes through communities Vevey, La Tour -de- Peilz, Montreux, Veytaux and Villeneuve, serving a total of 41 stops. The route system extends completely along the northern shore of Lake Geneva and largely follows the main road 9
The trolley bus - Vevey Villeneuve is the last remaining of the original five overland trolleybuses Switzerland. The VMCV operates next to the trolley bus line also eight bus lines. With 5.204 million passengers a year, equivalent to 74 percent of the total volume, the trolley bus service but is by far the busiest line of the company.
History
First planning to replace the 13.0 km long tram along the Vaud Riviera there were in 1938, but until 1955, work began on the trolleybus. The route went into operation in four sections:
The latter date marked after all, the final adjustment of the tram. Initially the trolley wrong in 7.5 -minute intervals, the tram went before every eight minutes. For the rush hours the trolley were additionally since 1963 nine trailers available.
In the second half of the 1990s also the overall management of in 1957/58 and the depot was extensively renovated.
Operating and planned extension
The travel time is in the direction of Villeneuve Gare 37 and in the opposite direction 38 minutes. For the ten- minute intervals throughout the day offered nine courses are required, it is the turn of time in Vevey seven minutes and Villeneuve in eight minutes. Only during the Montreux Jazz Festival, it always takes place in July, are exceptionally twelve cars in use. Evening from about 20:00 clock, however, is run only every 20 minutes.
In addition, the VMCV offered at peak times between Vevey and Montreux Marché funicular to express buses every twenty minutes on the former line 1, they used only some selected intermediate stops. These three extra courses were served with solo buses, only by an overhaul of the regular Trolleybuskurse was traveling possible. In the course of carried out by 12 December 2010 Integration in the tariff association Vaud these express buses were set, not least because from this point on, the trains can be used on the parallel Simplon line with the same ticket.
Medium-term plan to Rennaz at the eastern end of the line a 2.5 kilometer extension. There is a large hospital with 300 beds and 1,000 employees is set up between 2013 and 2015, from which a corresponding passenger potential for the trolleybus is expected. It is expected that approximately 1,000 additional passengers daily.
Rolling stock
For the nine rounds on the line 201, the VMCV currently has 16 low-floor articulated cars with numbers 1, 3-14 and 16-18. They were produced by the Belgian company Van Hool, the electrical equipment supplied to Kiepe. The car went into operation between 1994 and 1996 and are to be used until about 2020.
Seven cars are spares, two more vehicles from this series (2 and 15) were sold due to lack of demand in 2008 at the Salzburg trolleybus. There they were provided with the new road numbers 259 and 260 into service after a work-up. In addition, the VMCV between 2005 and 2007 gave three cars from the reserve stock of the neighboring Lausanne Trolleybus.
The Van Hool coaches were specially designed for the VMCV, similar car with the type designation AG received 300 T later also to the trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar, at the Salzburg trolleybus, trolley bus at Solingen and the trolleybus Arnhem.
Today's generation of vehicles replaced the 18 solo cars from the inaugural year. They were built jointly by Berna and Ateliers de Construction Mécaniques de Vevey ( ACMV ), the electrical equipment supplied the Société Anonyme des Ateliers de Sécheron ( SAAS ) to. Your operating numbers also denominated 1 to 18 respectively. After their withdrawal Vevey Villeneuve was the first Swiss trolleybus, which could produce a fully low-floor car park.
The solo vehicle were also six trailers with points 51 to 56. They were made in 1966 by the producers Rochat and Moser.
Van Hool trolleybus 11 before Chillon Castle
The former carriage 2 in use in Salzburg