The TPC Bt 363 seen between Fontanney and Aigle-Dépôt AL

The Aigle-Leysin rack railway climbs out of Aigle on a rather steep gradient across wineyards. Inside the city the trains run along the streets with adhesion power and change direction at the depot. The final section inside Leysin town is soon going to be replaced by a new tunnel. One reason of doing this is that the very last station, Leysin - Grande Hotel is not really used by passengers anymore. When visiting, we were almost the only people to get off the train there and finding a street that would lead back to the more centrally located Leysin-Fayday station was problematic. Anothe reason for the replacement is that the ski lifts lie rather far from the current train stations, and lengthening the rack railway to the Berneuse cable car is going to increase passenger travel by a lot.