Chemin de fer Bière-Apples-Morges

Abbreviations
* ACMV Ateliers de Constructions Mechanique de Vevey.
* BBC Brown, Boveri & Cie
* FFA Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein AG
* SAAS S.A. Ateliers Secheron.
* SIG Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (German for Swiss Industrial Society)
* SLM Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Winterthur.
* Travys Transports Vallée-de-Joux - Yverdon-les-Bains - Sainte-Croix S.A.
* YSteC Compagnie du Chemin de fer Yverdon - Ste-Croix

Services

Services are normally provided by electric railcars of class Be 4/4, hauling either voiture pilote (driving trailers), delivered in 1982 and built by ACMV/SAAS, or coaches, or both. The two modern Ge 4/4 locomotives deal with freight traffic, the most obvious difference to the MOB and RhB locomotives is the addition of standard gauge buffers for use with standard gauge wagons.

Livery

Livery is green/cream. Ex-Travys vehicles 15 and 54 started service sporting the YStC red/cream livery. The two standard gauge shunting locomotives still sport their SBB red livery (at June 2008) and it is not known if they are to be repainted in BAM Green

Accident

A fatal accident took place on 27 October,1997 when a train heading towards Bière collided with a tractor at a level crossing near Bussy-sur-Morges. The train derailed and crashed into a metal catenary support mast killing the train driver instantly. Four injured passengers were taken to hospital.

Transfer Traffic

The company also owns two Class Te ^III locomotives based on the standard gauge lines at Morge where they shunt traffic for the metre gauge lines and mount this into metre gauge carrier bogies "piggy-back" style. These are numbered 147 and 155 and were built by SLM/MFO.

The Future

From December 2004 the BAM, along with TL, LEB, CarPostal Suisse and CFF became part of a joint fare system, called Mobilis Vaud. This includes weekly, monthly and yearly passes. From December 2009 this fare system will be extended to cover the Riviera and North Vaudois and in the following year to Nyon and Gland. The final section in the jigsaw will be the inclusion of the Chablais Vaudois area.

ources

Grandguillaume Michel et al., Voies étroites de la campagne vaudoise. BVA, Lausanne, 1986, ISBN 2-88125-004-1

External links

* [http://www.mbc.ch/ Chemin de fer Bière-Apples-Morges (BAM)]