24 March 1876

Postal card from Ursenbach to St Imier received same day.
Ursenbach cancel [zwergstempel] is a type without the year date an experiment that was short lived during 1872-73, though the cancelers were used for many years. They were primarily distributed to small towns and villages.

Lucky - I am actually interested in cancels, it just happens that many items posted and cancelled with railway devices were post cards from people telling others where they were staying. I guess post cards to some extent were supposed to make others jealous. Or, they were the cheapest form of business communication.

Your card is interesting in that it has the hand stamp of the sender just below the picture, Dr Goetze, and addressed to another doctor in Berlin. Beyond that, it is an uprated domestic postal card used for international communication.

18 March 1915

For cancel collectors they don't get any better than this example!
Originating in Ballaigues and placed aboard an east-bound Lausanne-Pontarlier-Lausanne train for Lausanne. This was a main line route from the exchange office in France at Pontarlier to Lausanne. In this case the train was headed back into Switzerland rather than going to France. Through items would not get this cancel, only items placed aboard at intermediate stops between the two terminals.