Western Switzerland Railways began as a joint operation of three separate Swiss railway companies before those companies merged into a single company on 1 January 1872. The merged company was renamed Western Switzerland-Simplon Railways on 28 June 1881, and it in turn merged with the Bernese Jura Railways to form the Jura-Simplon Railways on 1 January 1890.
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1. Wikidata: Western Switzerland Railways
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Swiss railway companies
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inception: 1872
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dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1881
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The Western Switzerland Railways (Chemins de fer de la Suisse Occidentale, shortened to Suisse-Occidentale; SO or S-O), were initially a joint operation of three Swiss railway companies, but these companies merged on 1 January 1872.
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