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The Chemin de Fer Fribourgeois Gruyere - Fribourg - Morat´s (GFM) metre-gauge line is located in Switzerland and is 48.2 km long. In addition to this the company also operates two standard-gauge (1435mm) railway lines, those between Bulle and Romont and between Fribourg, Murten and Ins.

The main line of the narrow gauge network runs from Palézieux (SBB - line Bern - Lausanne) via Châtel-St. Denis and Bulle to Montbovon, where it makes connection with the Monteux Oberland Bernoise Railway (MOB) and has a total length of 44.2 km. The short Bulle - Broc branch line serves the nearby Nestlé chocolate factory.

The Palézieux - Montbovon line came into being between 1901 and 1904 and the Bulle - Broc line followed in 1912. At the outset both of these lines were run by the Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère (CEG), a company which, in 1942, joined with the two standard gauge lines to form the GFM.

Bulle is the centre of operations with depot, workshops and connection to the standard gauge railway to Romont. Until 1969 Châtel-St. Denis also had a connection to the CEV line to Vevey.

Today, passenger traffic is carried out by electric train sets, working as single cars or in multiple, and goods traffic is most often carried out with standard gauge wagons transported on carrier trucks.

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