The Franco-Swiss Company was a former railway company in Switzerland, formed in 1859 and absorbed into the Western Swiss Railways in 1872. It built the Neuchâtel-Pontarlier railway.
Areuse Gorge with Franco-Swiss line on a wood engraving
Contemporary illustration of the Neuchâtel-Les Verrières line above the village of Saint-Sulpice
Bond of the Franco-Suisse Eisenbahn company, issued July 1868
Medical train in Les Verrières for the wounded of the Bourbaki army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. Detail of the giant round painting by Edouard Castres in the Bourbaki Panorama in Lucerne.
The Neuchâtel–Pontarlier railway, also known as the Val-de-Travers line or the Franco-Suisse line, is a single-track standard-gauge railway line run by the Swiss Federal Railways and the French public
Franco-Swiss Company
…Franco-Suisse, FS) was a former railway company in Switzerland, formed in 1859 and absorbed into the Western Swiss Railways in 1872. It built the Neuchâtel-Pontarlier railway. The French company, Paris–Lyon–Mediterranean Railway (PLM) sought to connect its network with the Swiss network. To achieve this, it founded in 1856…
RABe 527 of the Transports Régionaux Neuchâtelois [de] in Neuchâtel on the way to Travers–Buttes
Steam train in the Areuse gorge between Bôle and Champ-du-Moulin
Steam train on the viaduct of Couvet
Locomotive Ae 3/6 I 10693 on the occasion of the opening of the electrification between Neuchâtel and Les Verrières