Scenic route
Chemins de fer du Jura
La Chaux-de-Fonds → Glovelier · Switzerland
- Distance
- 51 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 44 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- Chemins de fer du Jura
- Train
- CJ metre-gauge railcars
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1892
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Metre gauge across the Franches-Montagnes plateau: horse pastures and firs at 1,000 m from watch-town La Chaux-de-Fonds to Saignelégier, then a wooded ravine descent to Glovelier.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 15047895 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 36 (Zug-Nr. 219)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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