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in the wooded Vallée de Joux. People visited the villages along the Lac de Joux for summer holidays and in winter for ice skating or tobogganing. The economic crisis in the 1930s led to a sharp decline in freight and passenger traffic. On 2 October 1936, the line along with the Pont–Brassus
Railway
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Freight did not develop as expected. The mining of iron—for which the railway had been built among other things—stagnated and the income from the transport of timber and ice on the short line did not make profitable operations possible. In addition, the profits from the 2.7 kilometre-long Le
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on 31 October 1886. The nearly 8.5 kilometre-long branch line branches at the 3.2 kilometre point of the
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The following is a list of locomotives used by the PV:
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273:to Lausanne
85:Track gauge
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853:Categories
806:References
683:Le Sentier
612:Build year
603:PV/SOS no.
479:Le Brassus
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766:ignored (
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649:Le Risoux
636:Scrapped
630:from 1901
625:from 1901
617:from 1891
271:SBB line
133:Route map
79:Technical
69:Successor
693:Vendline
628:RPB name
475:Vallorbe
385:1007.8 m
330:1018.3 m
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41:Overview
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667:Allaine
633:Comment
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768:help
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