page_title: Simplon Railway
section_title: Lausanne–Brig
hierarchical_section_title: Simplon Railway / Route / Lausanne–Brig
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Rame ETR 610 005 des CFF en route de Milano à Genève comme EC 34 près de St-Saphorin sur le Lac Léman. Italiano: ETR 610 005 delle FFS in corsa come EC 34 Milano - Genève presso St. Saphorin sulle rive del Lago Lemano.
context_page_description: The Simplon Railway is a line that links Lausanne in Switzerland and Domodossola in Italy, via Brig. The 20 km-long Simplon Tunnel is a major part of it. The line between Lausanne and Vallorbe is sometimes considered to form part of the line, making it 233 km long.
  Together with the Lötschberg Railway to its north, it forms the second most important trans-Alpine railway line in Switzerland after the Gotthard Railway, which lies to its east and is about 240 km long.
  ETCS level 2 is expected to be installed on the line between Lausanne and Brig before 2022.
context_section_description: After Lausanne station, the line to Fribourg and Bern branches off to the left in the middle of the SBB rolling stock depot, while the Simplon line remains on the shore of Lake Geneva. Some Lavaux communities have stations on both lines, such as Pully (Pully and Pully Nord) or Lutry (Lutry and La Conversion). Vevey is reached via Pully, Lutry and Cully. The Vevey–Chexbres railway, which ends here, is a one-track connection to the line to Bern and can also function as a bypass of Lausanne for the Simplon Railway, but it is rarely used as such. In addition, the narrow-gauge MVR line runs from here to Les Pléiades. The line reaches Montreux via La Tour-de-Peilz, Burier and Clarens (which is within the Montreux municipal boundary); it is the only Swiss station with three different gauges. Here, the MVR Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway branches off to Rochers de Naye and the Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway to Lenk. After Montreux, the line runs past Chillon Castle and the former Hôtel Byron to Villeneuve. Three narrow gauge lines branch off in Aigle to Leysin, Les Diablerets and Champéry. In Bex, the narrow-gauge Bex–Villars–Bretaye Railway runs to the Col-de-Bretaye. The line from Saint-Gingolph connects with the Simplon line in Saint-Maurice. The line then reaches Martigny, where two lines branch off. Both are operated by the TMR, the narrow gauge Martigny–Châtelard Railway towards Chamonix and a standard gauge line to Orsières with a branch to Le Châble. A few kilometres later, the line reaches Sion and shortly later Sierre, before reaching the language border between French and German. The first stop in the Upper Valais is Leuk. In Visp station there is a connection to the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn (MGB) from Zermatt and the Lötschberg Base Tunnel connects with the line. The MGB runs from Brig, where the Lötschberg Mountain Railway connects with the Simplon line towards the Upper Valais.
caption: At St. Saphorin on Lake Geneva
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