page_title: Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches railway
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches railway / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Les quais de la gare de la Chaux-de-Fonds avec les trains
context_page_description: The Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches railway is a single-track standard-gauge line of the Swiss Federal Railways.
context_section_description: The line from Neuchâtel to La Chaux-de-Fonds, continuing to Le Locle, was built in four stages between 1857 and 1860 by the Jura industriel (Jura industrial, JI). The JI was taken over  in 1875 by the Jura bernois (Bernese Jura Railway, JB), which changed its name to the Jura–Bern–Luzern-Bahn (JBL) in 1884. The JBL extended the railway to the France–Switzerland border at Le Locle-Col-des-Roches (then Brenets-Col-des-Roches) and connected it through the Col des Roches tunnel and the line to Besançon with the French railway network of the Paris-Lyon-Méditerrané (PLM) company.
  On 1 January 1886, the 38.21-kilometre-long Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches railway line was separated from the Jura-Bern-Luzern-Bahn (JBL) and integrated into the newly founded Jura neuchâtelois (JN), which was taken over by the canton of Neuchâtel.
  The Confederation bought the railway from the canton and incorporated it in the network of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) on 1 July 1913. The SBB electrified the line to Le Locle-Col des Roches at 15 kV 16⅔ Hz AC in 1931. The extension of the line through France is not electrified.
caption: La Chaux-de-Fonds station, 1904
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