The Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher railway LEB is a metre gauge railway from the city of Lausanne via the village of Echallens to Bercher. The line is 23,6 km long and it is electrified at 1500 V DC. The line begins in the city of Lausanne at the Lausanne-Flon station, where there is a connection to the Lausanne metro. Throughout the city the LEB trains run much like trams, although they are markedly wider and bigger. The railway was opened in 1873.

This train is a pair Be 4/8 from the years 1985-91.
Picture from Lausanne Prilly 23.1.2003 by Ilkka Siissalo.

Same train as above, stopping to board a group of schoolchildren.
Picture from Lausanne Prilly 23.1.2003 by Ilkka Siissalo.

Throughout the city of Lausanne, the line runs much like a tramline, except there is just one track.
Picture from Lausanne Prilly 23.1.2003 by Ilkka Siissalo.

LEB train Be 4/8 no. 36 is from the year 1991. The Swiss law requires now low-floor trains and this one does officially not comply, even as the platform and the train floor are practically at the same level. But throughout the track section through the city, the stops are like tramstops without this high platforms.
Picture from Lausanne Flon, the end station of the LEB line, 23.1.2003 by Ilkka Siissalo.

LEB train Be 4/8 no. 36 seen from the other side. The unmotorised steering cab coach is always facing the direction uphill.
Picture from Lausanne Flon, the end station of the LEB line, 23.1.2003 by Ilkka Siissalo.

LEB train Be 4/8 no. 32 is one of the trains of LEB which has luckily not yet been covered totally with advertisement tapings. This two-coach unit is from 1985 and it's named after the village of Echallens. These trains were built by Ateliers Vevey and BBC.
Picture from Lausanne Flon, the end station of the LEB line, 4.5.2016 by Ilkka Siissalo.

LEB has also ordered newer trains than those shown above. This RBe 4/8 has been built by Stadler and it is a derivative of Stadler's FLIRT trains. LEB received 10 of these two-coach trains 2010-17 in two series and is said to have ordered more in 2019. Picture from the village of Bercher 7.6.2010 by Jan Oosterhuis. The picture was originally published at the German language Wikipedia under the Creative Commons 3.0 licence.