Ponts – Sagne – La Chaux-de-Fonds

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The Ponts – Sagne – La Chaux-de-Fonds ( PSC ), (commercial name in French : Chemin de fer Régional La Chaux-de-Fonds - Les Ponts-de-Martel) is a former Swiss railway company.

history

On July 26, 1889, the Ponts – Sagne – Chaux-de-Fonds Railway (PSC) opened the line from La Chaux-de-Fonds via La Sagne to Les Ponts-de-Martel . See: La Chaux-de-Fonds – Les Ponts-de-Martel railway line

On January 1, 1947, the company merged with the Régional des Brenets (RdB) to form the Chemins de fer des Montagnes Neuchâteloises (CMN).

Due to the poor economic situation, the merger with the also meter-gauge Régional des Brenets (RdB) was initiated on the basis of the Private Railway Aid Act of 1939 , although there is no direct track connection to it. The merger was implemented after the Second World War on January 1, 1947, from which the Chemins de fer des Montagnes Neuchâteloises (CMN) emerged, which qualified for financial contributions in accordance with Section 2 of the legal text. Under the CMN, the PSC line was modernized and electrical operation under 1500 volts direct current with new rolling stock began on May 13, 1950.

At the request of the canton of Neuchâtel , three transport companies controlled by the cantons were merged retrospectively as of January 1, 1999 by means of a merger agreement of May 27, 1999. The Chemins de fer des Montagnes Neuchâteloises (CMN), the " Transports du Val-de-Ruz " (VR) and the Régional du Val-de-Travers (RVT) were taken over by the newly founded "TRN SA", the Transports Régionaux Neuchâtelois (TRN) based in La Chaux-de-Fonds .

See also

literature

  • Sébastien Jacobi: Centenaire des Chemins de fer des Montagnes neuchâteloises . Without publisher, La Chaux-de-Fonds 1990.
  • Hans G. Wägli: Swiss Rail Network . AS Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905111-21-7 .
  • Hans G. Wägli: Railway Profile Switzerland 2005 . Diplory Verlag, Grafenried 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official name of the railway according to statistics of the rolling stock of the Swiss Railways based on the inventory at the end of 1903 , published by the Swiss Post and Railway Department, Bern, July 1904, pages 22, 45, 63 and 84
  2. ↑ Entry in the commercial register of the former CMN, see information on the merger