West Switzerland Company
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The West Switzerland Company was a railway company in Switzerland, formed 1854 and absorbed into the Western Swiss Railway in 1872. The OS built a railway network in western Switzerland and connected
West Switzerland train between Lausanne and Renens, shortly after the opening of the line in 1856.
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Morges station with a waiting West Switzerland train
Locomotive No. 12 of the OS, built in 1857
Franco-Swiss Company
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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.
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…was operated by boat until 1861. On 7 November 1859, the section from Yverdon to Vaumarcus was opened, connecting the OS was to the network of the Franco-Swiss (Franco-Suisse, FS). In order to establish a rail connection to the French Paris–Lyon–Mediterranean Railway, the OS opened a line from Morges to Coppet…
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.