It commenced from a terminus in Piazza Manzoni on the Lake Lugano waterfront, had 16 stops, a maximum gradient of 4% and a minimum radius of 40 metres (130 ft).

However suburban trains, from Piazza Manzoni to Dino, continued to use the street track.

The trains were replaced by a regional bus service, which subsequently merged with that of the Lugano–Tesserete railway, and today operates as the Autolinee Regionali Luganesi.

[2] Little remains of the street track between Piazza Manzoni and La Santa, but the depot at the latter location is still in use by the ARL as a bus garage.

[2] An original open-sided trailer car of the LCD has been restored and is preserved on the Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway.