NStCM railway is a small narrow gauge local railway linking the station of Nyon by the SBB main line between Lausanne and Genève
to the towns of St Cergue and La Cure climbing up from lake Geneva (Lac Leman) to the mountain hills of the Jura mountain chain.
The line is built in metre gauge and it is 26,7 km long. It used to run all the way to Morez in France and that explains why the official shorthand
name NStCM has the letter M at the end of it. But the part from La Cure at the Swiss/French border to Morez was closed in 1958. The line is
electrified with the somewhat exotic voltage system of 2200 V DC.
New laws regarding accessibility demand for example that in every train, bus or similar there has to be a way for people who have disabilities to get on
and off the train by themselves. In practise this means that every train needs to have at least a small low-floor section. This was not the case with the 1980s
trains which NStCM was using. NStCM was forced to order new rolling stock. NStCM bought from Stadler first two new trains of this type ABe 4/8 and they were delivered in 2015.
Later NStCM signed a deal with Stadler ordering six more similar new trains. After that all traffic on the NStCM railway
should be run with these new low-floor trains. This is a picture of one of these new ABe 4/8 trains in 2019. The picture is republished from the French language Wikipedia.
The original publisher was Wikipedia user "Albins" who took this picture 12.9.2019. The picture is licensed under the Creative Commons
CC-BY 4.0 licence.