Where does TPF operate?
Where does TPF operate?
TPF operations are centered on Bulle which has a depot, workshops and offers a connection to the standard gauge line to Romont as well as express bus services to the capital. The transfer to the MOB takes place in Montbovon.
What does TPF stand for?
The Transports Publics Fribourgeois (TPF) is a renaming of the former Chemins de fer Fribourgeois Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat when the municipal Transport en commun de Fribourg (TF) was absorbed in 2000. The company is a railway operator with both narrow and standard gauge lines centred in the town of Bulle.
Why is there no direct train line from Vevey to Fribourg?
One contributing factor was the political and human geography of Switzerland (Vevey is in Canton Vaud but Chatel St Denis is in Canton Fribourg). Evidence of the existence of this line still exists at Chatel St Denis, where Bulle – Palézieux trains have to reverse (Bulle – Vevey was the ‘direct’ straight line route).
