Le Locle–Les Brenets line

The Le Locle–Les Brenets line is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) railway line in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.^[1] It runs 4.1 kilometres (2.5 mi) from Le Locle, where it has a cross-platform interchange with the standard gauge Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line of Swiss Federal Railways, to Les Brenets. The line was originally built by the Régional des Brenets [fr] and opened on 1 September 1890.^[2]

Le Locle–Les Brenets
A TRN railcar at Les Brenets in 2011
Overview
Owner	Transports publics Neuchâtelois
Line number	224
Termini	Le Locle Les Brenets
History
Opened	1 September 1890 (1890-09-01)
Technical
Line length	4.1 km (2.5 mi)
Track gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge
Electrification	1500 V DC overhead catenary
Route map Legend SBB line to La Chaux-de-Fonds -0.12 Le Locle 946 m above the  sea SBB line to Le Locle-Col-des-Roches 0.47 Le Locle Le Chalet 945 m above the  sea Petits-Monts 721 m 1.58 Les Frêtes 932 m above the  sea Raya 36 m Châtelard 299 m 4.12 Les Brenets 873 m above the  sea Depot and workshop This diagram: view talk edit

Today, it is operated by the Transports publics Neuchâtelois. On 24 July 2020, the canton of Neuchâtel announced their intention to close the line in 2025, to be replaced by an electric bus service that would use the Petits-Monts railway tunnel.^[3] However, it was subsequently announced in June 2023 that the line would continue to operate in its present form at least until 2031. ^[4]