Classic route
Broye Line
Yverdon-les-Bains → Fribourg · Switzerland
- Distance
- 49 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 07 min
- Average speed
- 44 km/h
- Operator
- SBB
- Train
- S 30
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1876
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Single track across Romandy's Broye valley, crossing its sister line at Payerne on the way from Lake Neuchâtel to Fribourg.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5668542 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SBB — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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