We got a lift to Lacure, bought our tickets, and chatted to the locals; but things seemed very quiet. We needn't have worried. At 3.07 precisely, the two-car unit quietly rolled in, the bored-looking crew changed ends; and 8 minutes later, we set off on a helter-skelter downhill ride to Nyon {near Geneva}. This metre-gauge Swiss branch is highly recommended - like a cross between the Ffestiniog and Sheffield trams, with touches of Carter Bar (a road on the English-Scottish border).

Location: Lacure, Switzerland

Original line: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)

Photographer: Ken Strachan

Contact photographer: Ken Strachan

Contact editor

Date: 13/09/2009

Image number: 25796

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