Musée du fer et du chemin de fer |
1337 Vallorbe, Switzerland (Waadt) |
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| Address |
Grandes Forges 11
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| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Museum typ
Exhibition
Heritage- or City Museum
- Model Railway
- Craft
- Mills
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Opening times
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Monday: 14:00 - 18:00; Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00 - 18:00
Montag: 14:00 - 18:00 Uhr; Dienstag - Sonntag: 10:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Lundi: 14:00 - 18:00; Mardi - Dimanche: 10:00 - 18:00 |
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Status from 10/2016
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Adult 12.00 CHF; child (6 to 15 years) 6.00 CHF Erwachsene: 12.00 CHF; Jugendliche (6 bis 15 Jahre): 6.00 CHF adulte 12.00 CHF; enfant (6 à 15 ans) 6.00 CHF |
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| Contact |
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| Homepage | www.museedufer.ch | ||||||||
museedufer.ch 
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| Location / Directions |
Vallorbe is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Vallorbe CFF is the first and last Swiss railway station served by the TGV Lyria railway line from Lausanne to Paris. Vallorbe is also served by Swiss Federal Railways' hourly running suburbain train S2 to Lausanne and further to Palézieux. CFF also serves on an hourly frequency the junction into the Vallée de Joux until Le Brassus in the south-west end of the valley. From there a bus connection connects Le Brassus with Nyon at the Lake of Geneva. They are all part of the integrated mobilis (canton of Vaud) fare network. By road Follow the brown signs for tourists. There is a free car park three minutes away (behind the community building). By bus from Yverdon-les-Bains See the Travys timetables (ask for the ‘Eterpaz’ stop). By train from Lausanne A 10-minute walk from the station. |
| Description | The Iron MuseumThere were two guiding ideas behind its conception: demonstration and activity. Demonstration of the origins of the iron industry, of its development and of its current applications. Activity in the canal wheels which activate the machines, and in the working forge, the real heart of the Museum.So there is a very special atmosphere: the panting of the water wheels, the whirring of the drive-belts, the clattering of the machines and the blows of the hammer on the anvil, constantly reminding one that each of the objects on view also had its own life. At the forge, lit up and heated by the fire, a kind of work that has become mysterious for some lives again, and engenders a surprising fascination. The Railway MuseumSituated halfway along the 820 km of the Paris-Milan railway line, Vallorbe might have been designed to become the line’s ‘memory’.Moreover, the important role played by the railway in the development of the locality deserved public recognition. So it was quite natural that, in 1990, the areas available on the different floors of the building of the Great Forges, now the property of the community, should be converted into a museum devoted to the railway epic of Vallorbe, on the Simplon line. |
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