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Summary - August 1983 |
This gave the operating department the luxury of a "spare" which only operated in public service That month it operated vice PS Savoie on and as well as five days of special or charter sailings The number of piers served, particularly on the French shore, reduced considerably over the following two decades but it was heartening to find some piers had have calls One notable change was the servicing of the small French piers at Sciez and August 1983 was by the paddle steamers plying the full length of the lake - but 21 years later they only had a dedicated service by the small mv Grèbe These days the piers are no longer served and that small motor vessel is no longer part of the CGN PS Savoie operated the popular 1115 'mid-morning' sailing 21 across the lake from Lausanne to the French resorts of Evian and Thonon - this sailing was later extended to Yvoire and continued each summer until the end of the 1999 season when it was withdrawn as an ecomony measure Surprisingly 2004 saw it re-instated, albeit only using mv Léman before the ever-increasing daily commuters between PS La Suisse operated her usual 1230 'lunch cruise' from Lausanne to Evian followed by an anti-clockwise afternoon cruise round the Upper Lake These sailings were subsequently operated by the smaller re-built PS Montreux allowing the The traditional 2 Day Roster sailings were operated by two of then three smaller motor paddle vessels These MPVs only made one visit to the Upper Lake alternating between the morning or the afternoon on subsequent days unlike the situation operated one and a half On Sundays the larger As if a regular eleven hour day was not enough, She still operates the daily full-lake sailing from Le Bouveret to Geneva and return Regular evening Dance Cruises were operated on Wednesdays round the Upper Lake by Thursdays from Geneva by MPV Helvétie as well Saturdays when the large MPV was joined by a similar cruise from Lausanne by Unfortunately these regular danse cruises had all been withdrawn 21 years later but alternative evening sailings do still operate occasionally as either specials or modifying the late timetable sailings with an "assortment" of catering options The former mv Chablais was a much cheaper option than the paddle steamers for a private evening charter sailings resulting in her then regular evening sailing from Lausanne to both Evian-les-Bains and Thonon-les-Bains and back at 1915 having to be covered by a paddler - |
Index of timetables operated by the paddle steamers during August 1983 Mondays - 1st to 29th August 1983 Tuesday - 2nd August 1983 Tuesdays - 9th to 30th August 1983 Tuesday - 16th August 1983 Wednesdays - 3rd to 24th August 1983 Wednesday - 31st August 1983 Thursdays - 4th and 18th August 1983 Thursday - 18th August 1983 Thursday - 25th August 1983 Fridays - 5th and 12th August 1983 Friday - 19th August 1983 Friday - 26th August 1983 Saturday - 6th August 1983 Saturday - 13th August 1983 Saturday - 20th August 1983 Saturday - 27th August 1983 Sundays - 7th to 28th August 1983 If you have any further details, please e-mail me |
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