La Chaux-de-Fonds railway station (french: Gare de La Chaux-de-Fonds) serves the
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of
La Chaux-de-Fonds
La Chaux-de-Fonds () is a Swiss city in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura mountains at an altitude of 1000 m, a few kilometers south of the French border. After Geneva, Lausanne and Fribourg, it is the fourth largest city loc ...
, in the
canton of
Neuchâtel
, neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier
, twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...
, Switzerland.
Opened in 1857, the station is owned and operated by
SBB-CFF-FFS
Swiss Federal Railways (german: link=no, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, ''SBB''; french: link=no, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, ''CFF''; it, Ferrovie federali svizzere, ''FFS'') is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usuall ...
. It forms the
junction
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between three SBB-CFF-FFS
standard gauge
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lines:
from Morteau in France (via
Le Locle
Le Locle (; german: Luggli) is a Communes of Switzerland, municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
It is situated in the Jura Mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
It is the third smallest city in Switz ...
-
Col des Roches
Col des Roches (el. 919 m.) is a mountain pass in the Jura Mountains on the border between the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and France.
It connects Le Locle in Switzerland and Morteau
Morteau () is a commune, in the Doubs departme ...
),
from Neuchâtel and
from Biel/Bienne.
The station also offers interchange with two
metre gauge
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The metre gauge is used in around of tracks around the world. It was used by European colonial powers, such as the French, British and German Empires. In Europe, la ...
lines: the
Chemins de fer du Jura
The Chemins de fer du Jura is a railway company in the canton of Jura
The Republic and Canton of Jura (french: République et canton du Jura), less formally the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura ( , ), is the newest (founded in 1979) of the 26 Sw ...
(CJ)
line to Glovelier and the
Transports publics Neuchâtelois line to Les Ponts-de-Martel.
History
The station was opened on 2 July 1857, together with the rest of the initial, long, La-Chaux-de-Fonds–Le Lochle section of the La Chaux-de-Fonds–Neuchâtel railway. This railway was constructed by the
Compagnie du Jura industriel, to link the watchmaking industry in the
Watch valley The "Watch Valley" covers all the Swiss Jura Arc, from Geneva to Basel, and is the primary location of the Swiss watch-making industry.
Beginning initially in 15th century Geneva, the cradle of the European time keeping industry, and spreading nor ...
of the
Neuchâtel Jura with the cantonal capital of
Neuchâtel
, neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier
, twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...
.
Location
La Chaux-de-Fonds railway station is situated at Place de la Gare, right in the centre of the city.
Services
The following services stop at La Chaux-de-Fonds:
*
InterRegio/
RegioExpress
RegioExpress (RE) is a fast regional train service in Switzerland, run by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) or other railway companies (such as TILO, BLS, tpf, transN, THURBO or RhB). It is comparable to the Regional-Express in Germany, ...
: half-hourly service to and hourly service to .
* RegioExpress/
Regio:
** two trains per hour to .
** two trains per hour to .
*
TER
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* Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy
* Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob S ...
: infrequent service to or .
* Regio:
** hourly service to .
** hourly service to .
See also
*
History of rail transport in Switzerland
:''This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series.''
The construction and operation of Swiss railways during the 19th century was carried out by private railways. The first internal line was a 16 km line opened from Z ...
*
Rail transport in Switzerland
The Swiss rail network is noteworthy for its density, its coordination between services, its integration with other modes of transport, timeliness and a thriving domestic and trans-alp freight system. This is made necessary by strong regulations ...
References
External links
*
* {{SBB web, 4314, la-chaux-de-fonds
Railway stations in the canton of Neuchâtel
Swiss Federal Railways stations
La Chaux-de-Fonds
Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1857