Travys

Travys is the brand name of a public transport company operating several rail and bus lines in the Yverdon region in the north of the Swiss canton of Vaud. Its name is based is on an acronym for Transports Vallée de Joux–Yverdon-les-Bains–Ste-Croix. It was created on 1 January 2001 from the merger of the following companies:

Yverdon–Ste-Croix Railway
Pont–Brassus Railway
Transports publics Yverdon-Grandson et environs

Travys also took over the management of the Orbe-Chavornay railway on 1 June 2003. The shares of the Usines de l'Orbe were later acquired and the OC was fully merged into Travys in 2008.
The YSteC and PBr railways as well as the TPYG bus operation worked closely together for several decades. YSteC and TPYG cooperated from 1954 and PBr was jointly managed with YSteC from 1981.

Network

The company owns the following lines:

the standard gauge Vallorbe–Le Brassus railway line
the metre gauge Yverdon–Ste-Croix railway
the standard gauge Orbe-Chavornay railway between Orbe and Chavornay
the city bus lines from Yverdon and the bus lines to the adjacent towns of Cheseaux-Noréaz, Montagny and Chamblon
the Yverdon–Orbe–Vallorbe fast bus line
the L'Auberson–Sainte-Croix–Bullet–Mauborget bus line