Swiss Vapeur Parc, Miniature train theme park in Le Bouveret, Switzerland
Swiss Vapeur Parc is a miniature railway park with working steam trains located in Le Bouveret near Lake Geneva. The site features multiple tracks with scaled replicas of locomotives, stations, and landscapes throughout the grounds.
The first circuit was built at Aigle in the late 1970s and moved to Le Bouveret in 1987, onto a former football pitch of 9,000 m² with 800 m of track on two levels. The park opened on 6 June 1989 with an International Festival of Steam, drawing 10,000 visitors in three days, and then had two locomotives, one steam and one petrol. Port-Valais granted 4,000 m² more in December 2015, and a loop through the Gothard tunnel opened in 2018.
The park reflects Swiss craftsmanship through carefully made miniature trains and landscapes that copy real European railway stations. Visitors watch these tiny steam engines operate along the tracks and learn how actual trains work.
The park is open from March through November with plenty of walking paths to watch the trains. There is a small restaurant and picnic areas where families can spend several hours comfortably.
Not all trains run on steam: the park also operates electric and diesel replicas, which since 2024 use lithium batteries instead of the petrol generators that powered their electric motors until the end of 2023. The line itself has no electrification, so every locomotive carries its own power source.
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