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| Locomotive ST1, a 0-4-0T from the railway's beginning seen circa 1960. |
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| An 0-6-0 type in present use. |
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| The ST line map; the maximum gradient is 1.5% |
This standard gauge private railway was founded in 1912 for passenger transport and has been run as a public limited company. Unusually for Switzerland, it was never electrified. In the early 1970s passenger transport over the 8.9 km between Sursee and Triengen was moved from rail to road. Since then, the railway line has been used for freight transport as well as for the operation of a heritage steam railway.
In September 2018, the ownership of an SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) line was handed over to private hands for the first time in several years: the Sursee-Triengen-Bahn which until then only operated in Surental (Suren Valley) took over the Hinwil-Bäretswil railway line in the Zurich Oberland.
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