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24-471: Vufflens-le-Château has an area, as of 2009, of 2.1 square kilometers (0.81 sq mi). Of this area, 1.49 km (0.58 sq mi) or 69.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.28 km (0.11 sq mi) or 13.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.4 km (0.15 sq mi) or 18.7% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 15.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of

48-645: A Fachhochschule ). In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 118 students in the Vufflens-le-Château school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 65 students in

72-543: A train heading towards Bière collided with a tractor at a level crossing near Bussy-sur-Morges. The train derailed and crashed into a metal catenary support mast killing the train driver instantly. Four injured passengers were taken to hospital. The company also owns two Class Te locomotives based on the standard gauge lines at Morge where they shunt traffic for the metre gauge lines and mount this into metre gauge carrier bogies "piggy-back" style. These are numbered 147 and 155 and were built by SLM / MFO . From December 2004

96-523: Is 1 person who is 90 and older. The historical population is given in the following chart: Vufflens Castle is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance . The entire area around Vufflens-le-Château is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites . In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 21.62% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were

120-411: Is a 1,000 mm ( 3 ft  3 + 3 ⁄ 8  in ) metre gauge railway with a total length of almost 30 kilometres (19 mi) which links the towns in its name and from a junction at Apples to the village of L’Isle . The company was renamed to Transports de la région Morges-Bière-Cossonay (MBC) to express its other activities, mainly in local and regional bus services. Furthermore

144-632: The FDP (17.89%), the SP (16.45%) and the Green Party (15.05%). In the federal election, a total of 253 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.5%. As of  2010, Vufflens-le-Château had an unemployment rate of 3%. As of 2008, there were 32 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 12 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 5 businesses in this sector. 58 people were employed in

168-554: The Funiculaire Cossonay–Gare–Ville is part of MBC since 2010, Before, MBC was contracted to operate it. The communities in the area between Morges, on the shores of Lake Geneva, and Biere first got together to discuss a line connecting the lakeside, the towns in the area and the expanding army barracks at Biere, on 26 September 1875 when they also realised there would also be a traffic flow of forestry and agricultural produce. Five different routes were considered and in

192-444: The tertiary sector , with 15 businesses in this sector. There were 320 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.9% of the workforce. In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 77. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 15, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 12, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in

216-437: The adult population, 61 people or 8.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 100 people or 13.1% are between 30 and 39, 134 people or 17.5% are between 40 and 49, and 108 people or 14.1% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 79 people or 10.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 47 people or 6.1% are between 70 and 79, there are 13 people or 1.7% who are between 80 and 89, and there

240-538: The end a compromise route was agreed in 1890 but it took a further four years before construction started. The line opened on 1 July 1895. The line from Apples to L'Isle was opened on 12 September 1896 but after three years it merged with the BAM. Originally the lines were steam worked and it was not until 1943 that the system was electrified, the main line from 10 May, the Apples to L’Isle line from 13 November. The main line of

264-578: The fleet, HG3/4 No.7, bought second-hand in 1941 from the Furka-Oberalp Railway, was again a product of the SLM, works No. 2417, built in 1914. The rack equipment was removed making it a class G3/4. On arrival of no. 7, the army requested that no. 2 be sent to Montbovon as a strategical reserve, from where it came back after the War, 1945, only to be scrapped. In the year of electrification, 1943, no. 4

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288-500: The forested land, 9.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 47.2% is used for growing crops and 3.7% is pastures, while 18.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality was part of the Morges District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Vufflens-le-Château became part of the new district of Morges. The blazon of

312-649: The most obvious difference to the Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line and RhB locomotives is the addition of standard gauge buffers for use with standard gauge wagons. Livery is green/cream. Ex-Travys vehicles 15 and 54 started service sporting the YSteC red/cream livery. The two standard gauge shunting locomotives still sport their SBB red livery (at June 2010) and it is not known if they are to be repainted in BAM Green A fatal accident took place on 27 October 1997 when

336-477: The municipal coat of arms is Pally of Six Or and Azure, overall a Bar of the first. Vufflens-le-Château has a population (as of December 2020) of 872. As of 2008, 16.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 25.1%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (535 or 84.8%), with German being second most common (42 or 6.7%) and English being third (25 or 4.0%). Of

360-891: The municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 53 students in those schools. Ferdinand de Saussure , Michael Schumacher , and Mick Schumacher lived in Vufflens-le-Château. Morges District Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 546195925 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:47:24 GMT Bi%C3%A8re%E2%80%93Apples%E2%80%93Morges railway The Bière–Apples–Morges Railway (BAM) or Chemin de fer Bière - Apples - Morges , located in Switzerland ,

384-604: The municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 20.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.9% used a private car. The municipality is served by a station on the Bière–Apples–Morges railway . From the 2000 census, 166 or 26.3% were Roman Catholic , while 336 or 53.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church . Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church , and there were 29 individuals (or about 4.60% of

408-526: The population in the municipality 110 or about 17.4% were born in Vufflens-le-Château and lived there in 2000. There were 263 or 41.7% who were born in the same canton, while 107 or 17.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 141 or 22.3% were born outside of Switzerland. The age distribution, as of 2009, in Vufflens-le-Château is; 103 children or 13.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 119 teenagers or 15.6% are between 10 and 19. Of

432-522: The population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 5 individuals (or about 0.79% of the population) who were Jewish , and 89 (or about 14.10% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist , and 17 individuals (or about 2.69% of the population) did not answer the question. In Vufflens-le-Château about 202 or (32.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education , and 174 or (27.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or

456-448: The railway, in particular trains of tanks carried on standard gauge flat wagons mounted on metre gauge carrying trucks . The line is electrified at 15 kV  16.7 Hz AC . Built for the opening of the main line section the BAM possessed three tender locomotives of the type G 3/3. These were built by SLM, Works No's. 883, 884, and 885 in 1894. They gained a 4th locomotive from the Apples - L'Isle Railway which became No.4. This, again

480-621: The system runs from Morges , where the trains use platforms within the Swiss Federal Railways (CFF/SBB/FFS) station on the Lausanne–Geneva railway , to the village of Bière , a distance of 19.1 kilometres (11.9 mi). It takes the passenger from Lake Geneva to the foothills of the Jura mountains. The route is a little circuitous and avoids any major climb, the maximum gradient being 1 in 28 (35.7 mm/m or 3.57 % ). From

504-452: The tertiary sector was 50. In the tertiary sector; 1 was in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 24.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 16.0% were in the information industry, 6 or 12.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 8 or 16.0% were in education. In 2000, there were 54 workers who commuted into the municipality and 259 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.8 workers leaving

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528-478: The village of Apples there is a 10.6 kilometres (6.6 mi) long branch line to serve L'Isle . This branch line faces towards Bière and any traffic from the Morges direction has to reverse to gain access. In more recent times a short 2 km (1.2 mi) branch line has been built from a point about 1 km (0.62 mi) prior to Bière to serve a Swiss army installation and this provides military traffic for

552-530: Was a product of SLM being Works No. 999 and being completed in 1896. In 1921 it acquired a 5th locomotive, another SLM product, the former SBB-CFF-FFS- Brunigbahn G 3/3 number 109 (Works No. 1341) which became their number 6. This locomotive was sold to a sawmill in Biel/Bienne after electrification and is now preserved at the Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway . The 6th and final steam locomotive in

576-527: Was rebuilt as snow plough. No. 3 was scrapped in 1944. The remaining two locomotives, no. 1 and 7, were sold in 1946 to Voies ferrées du Dauphiné in France. (Note: There was no No.5 in the fleet list) Abbreviations Services are normally provided by electric railcars of class Be 4/4, hauling either voiture pilote (driving trailers), delivered in 1982 and built by ACMV / SAAS , or coaches, or both. The two modern Ge 4/4 locomotives deal with freight traffic,

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