Aigle is a delightful town just to the west of Lac Leman. It has three narrow gauge railways all, now under the same management and all now on the same voltage (1500v DC) and same rack system (Riggenbach). It also has an impressive castle situated in the vineyards. We always like to make a visit here.
We went to Lausanne using a Re 4/4/ hauled commuter train originating in Neuchatel.
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| 11199 reached a maximum of 147 km/hr. Although it rattled a bit not bad for a 1960s era locomotive. |
We took a look around Aigle after trying unsuccessfully to get pictures of the Leysin train heading its way to the station down a narrow one way street heavily filled with cars.
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| THis heritage car and trailer are kept under a bridge at the west end of the station |
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| Aigle |
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| Aigle - Leysin train arriving in front of the station |
There is a steep climb up to Leysin but the area is not particularly ispiring and we caught a post bus over to Le Sepey,
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| Leysin |
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| Train for Diablerets arriving at Le Sepey |
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| Sawmill at Le Sepey |
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| Like many Swiss towns and villages, Le Sepey abounds in flowers |
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| Le Sepey |
We took a train back into Aigle and admired the chateau.
Finally we took the opportunity to go to Monthey and Champery on the third line out of Aigle. This is now equipped with new trains following the conversion to the 1500v DC voltage and the change to the Riggenbach rack (from Strub)
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| Monthey |
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| Champery |
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| At Monthey we took the opportunity to view an SBB switcher at the standard gauge station |
All in all it was a pretty long day. We encountered a little rain at Leysin but the weather was not too bad. The sun came out on the way back so tomorrow in the Jura looks to be promising.
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