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	GFM - TPF Chemins de fer Fribourgeois Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat (GFM): 1942-2000 Transports publics fribourgeois SA (TPF): 2000- All images link to larger copies which will open in a new window/tab
	This page shows postcards and images of la Gruyère which operates metre and standard gauge railways in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. The main line of the narrow gauge network runs from Palézieux, on the SBB main line from Bern to Lausanne, via Châtel-St-Denis and Bulle to Montbovon and has a total length of 44.2 km. The short Bulle-Broc branch, which was opened for traffic in 1912, leaves the main line just before La Tour-de-Trême station and serves the nearby Nestlé chocolate factory (previously Cailler), as well as the village of Broc. The system was opened in stages, that from Châtel-St-Denis to Palézieux (CP) in 1901, then over the following three years by the lines which made up the Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère (CEG), originally named CBM, those from Châtel-St-Denis to Vaudens, Vaudens to Bulle, Bulle to La Tour-de-Trême and from La Tour-de-Trême to Montbovon. From 20 December 1907 the CP was absorbed into CEG, and the branch line to Broc being added in 1912. Soon the company extended its activity into the bus sector and built up a large network. From 1 January 1942, and with the addition of two standard gauge lines, Bulle-Romont and Fribourg-Murten- ns, they formed the Chemins de fer Fribourgeois, Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat (GFM). Bulle is the centre of operations with depot, workshops and, within its modern station, the connection between the metre and standard gauge lines as well as many bus routes. Transfer to the trains of the Montreux-Oberland Bernois takes place in Montbovon, and until 1969, Châtel-St-Denis was also reached by a line of the CEV from Vevey. Railcars were the chosen motive power from the early days in the main due to the reversal of trains at Châtel-St. Denis, and this has continued with rebuilt or new modern units, working as single cars or in multiple. In 2000 the company was renamed Transports publics fribourgeois SA (Freiburgische Verkehrsbetriebe AG) and the city of Fribourg motor bus and trolley bus routes were integrated. Since 1958 goods traffic, much of which is shipped onwards by the standard gauge, has been carried by a "piggy back" system where the standard gauge wagons are transported on carrier trucks. In 2004 the Nestlé factory at Broc Fabrique generated over 1500 wagonloads over the system. From December 2006 the TPF handed its freight traffic to the CFF/SBB/FFS and its two locomotives, numbers 101 and 102 became surplus to requirements. In April 2007 they were sold to the MOB, who ran identical locos.

	Locomotive Classes on this Page Metre Gauge Locos GFM No.11 GFM No.12 GFM No.13 GFM No.101 Ville de Bulle GFM No.102 Neirivue Metre Gauge Railcars GFM No.111 GFM No.114 GFM Nos.121-124 GFM Nos.141-142 GFM Nos.151-152 Standard Gauge Locos GFM No.84 GFM No.91 GFM No.191 GFM No.192 Standard Gauge Railcars GFM Nos.161-167 Other Swiss Pages Geneva Trams & Trolleybuses CGN Header Page - Lake Geneva - Lac Leman CGN Page 1 - CGN Paddle Steamers 1822-1886 CGN Page 2 - CGN Paddle Vessels 1887-2004 CGN Page 3 - CGN Screw Motor Vessels LNM - Lacs de Neuchâtel & Morat	Associated Pages UK Excursion Vessels Cruise Ships Ocean Liners World Ferry Fleets Simplon Postcards. Home Page Simplon Postcards - Recent Updates - Simplon Postcards facebook page References Swiss Railways Platform 5 European Handbook No.5 by Haydock, Fox, Garvin Lokomotiven & Triebwagen der Schweizer Bahnen Band 2: Privatbahnen Westschweiz & Wallis by Peter Willen Orell Fuessli Verlag http://www..com Contacts Website:- www.tpf.ch http://www..com h h
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In 1960, a new prototype Bo-Bo electric locomotive was built for the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR). It was numbered E11 001, and production versions appeared from 1962. A lower geared version the E42 was also developed, more suitable for freight operations. 292 of these E42 locos were built (plus 96 of the higher speed E11). The class was later re-designated by DR as E242. When DR was merged with the West German DB, the class became 142. They were simple reliable locomotives that operated throughout the electrified East German system, but withdrawals started in the 1990s. A Swiss company Lokoop AG acquired 13 Class 142 locos and had them overhauled and modified for Swiss use at the Samstagern works of the Südostbahn (SOB) and by the Stadler company in Bussnang, Canton Thurgau. They were allocated class Ae476 in the Swiss system and operated in the north east of the country under hire. In March 1995, two of the class were sold outright to the GFM, where they became class Ae417 numbers 191 and 192. Their previous DB numbers were 142 110 and 142 145. They were used by the GFM for freight trains and for push-pull passenger services, receiving the GFM orange/grey livery. They were stored in 2005 when GFM/TPF freight services were taken over by SBB, and sold in2006.