Lausanne–Fribourg–Bern Railway

The Lausanne-Bern-Fribourg Railway (French: Chemin de Fer Lausanne-Bern-Fribourg, LFB) was a former railway company in Switzerland, formed in 1858 and absorbed into the Western Swiss Railway in 1872.

The aim of the LFB was to connect the French-speaking part of western Switzerland with the German-speaking part of central Switzerland with a line from Lausanne to Bern via Oron and Fribourg. The line is now part of the Midland line.

History

On 1 July 1858, the LFB was founded shortly before the Geneva–Versoix Railway company, which it absorbed later in the year. On 2 July 1860 it opened a line from Bern to a temporary station at the northern construction camp for the Grandfey Viaduct at Balliswil (near Düdingen). On 4 September 1862 the LFB opened the extension of the line from Balliswil to Lausanne. On 1 January 1872, the Western Swiss Railway (French: Chemins de Fer de la Suisse Occidentale, SO) was formed out of a merger of the Lausanne-Fribourg-Berne Railway with the West Switzerland Company (French: Compagnie de l'Ouest-Suisse, OS) and the French–Swiss Company (French: Compagnie Franco-Suisse, FS).

References

Ein Jahrhundert Schweizer Bahnen (A century of Swiss railways) 1847–1947 (in German). I. Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber & Co. AG. 1947. pp. 80–81.
Wägli, Hans G. (1980). Schienennetz Schweiz (Swiss rail network) (in German). Bern: Swiss Federal Railways.

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