It linked the towns of Vevey, Montreux and Villeneuve close to the shoreline of Lake Geneva, and also served the famous Château de Chillon.

It used what had, by then, become the standard tram electrification method of a single overhead cable, with current return via the running rails.

It had a length of 13 kilometres (8.1 mi), with 62 stops, a maximum gradient of 5% and a minimum radius of 25 metres (82 ft).

It shared a common section, of just 163 metres (535 ft) in length, with the Clarens–Chailly–Blonay tramway (CCB) in the Montreux suburb of Clarens.

The owning company survived, and is now, under the name VMCV SA, the principal bus and trolleybus operator in the Vevey and Montreux area.