Bözberg railway line

The Bözbergstrecke is a standard gauge railway line in northern Switzerland. It is one of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and leads from Basel via Pratteln, Rheinfelden, stone Sackingen, Frick, Bözberg tunnel and Brugg to Zurich.

History

1836 the project failed a railway line from Zurich to Basel via Laufenburg to the lack of finances and the resistance of Basel. The section between Zurich and Baden is the oldest railway in Switzerland and was opened on August 9, 1847 the legendary Spanish - Brötli train. On September 29, 1856, the section from Baden to Brugg by the Northeastern Railway was put into operation. The project is a continuation on Brugg and the Bözbergpass to Basel was supported by the Aargau cantonal government.

As an alternative to 1858 opened Hauenstein range of Swiss Central Railway with the detour via Olten opened the Bötzbergbahn ( PPA ), communal companies in the Northeastern Railway and the Central Railway, on August 2, 1875 long 49 kilometer stretch of Pratteln by the Frick Valley and the 2526 meters Bözberg tunnel to Brugg. This shortened the route between Basel and Zurich over 8 kilometers. Between Basel and Pratteln the trains used the route of the Central Railway and between Brugg and Zurich that of the Swiss Northeastern Railway. The line was initially built single track and the maximum slope is 14 per thousand.

After the original lines have south of the Schlossberg tunnel proved ineffective due to heavy landslides, we considered at the Swiss Northeastern Railway twice crossing the Limmat to the north and süglich of Wettingen with the Lower and the Upper Limmatbrücke. As of 1877, the new route and the Wettingen station was put into operation. Wettingen is the only route stop east of the Limmat.

1895 Pratteln section was expanded to Stein-Säckingen on double track. Only after the inclusion of Bözbergbahn in the SBB on January 1, 1902 followed by the other packages on double track. In November 1904, this was the section of stone Säckingen to Frick, finally, of Schinznach village to Brugg and in September 1905 in April 1905, the section of Schinznach village through the tunnel to Effingen and to Frick.

On October 18, 1926, the entire route from Pratteln was electrified to Brugg. Between Basel and Pratteln the Bözbergstrecke divides the trackbed with the express route Basel- Olten, respectively. the Hauenstein line, a continuation of the Gotthard Railway. A relief brought in 2003 created Adlertunnel between Liestal Muttenz and which is now traversed by the fast trains.

Accidents

On August 17, 1915, a fast train drove in Dietikon on a stationary passenger train, because the entry signal was opened too early. Six people were killed and 26 others seriously injured.

On September 8, 1976, a locomotive ran in Dietikon a group of track workers, six workers died.

On 10 February 2005, there was a collision between two trains near Brugg AG, in which a construction worker died.

Disused railway stations

In 1993, the regional traffic between Brugg and Frick was set; the backbone of public transport is now the bus line 137 from Post Auto Aargau. Since then, the stations hornussen, Effingen and Schinznach village will no longer be served in the timetabled train service. Hornussen was operational and assurance technically rebuilt from the train on siding. On the Effingen station rehearsed by the end of 2004, the track builders of the military emergency. At the stop Villnachern held until December 2008, two trains of the Regio S- Bahn Basel. A composition moves late at night by Frick continue to stay to Brugg and served it Villnachern. The same composition moves again in the morning towards Basel and held until December 2008 early in the morning also in Villnachern. Meanwhile, no more stops are possible in Villnachern since the platforms were removed.

Importance of the route

In particular, the 31-kilometer stretch from Zurich to Brugg has undergone a massive transformation through the decades and presents itself today on the first 16 kilometers from Zurich to be the longest four-track route of Switzerland. From the perspective of the entire Swiss rail network, the portion is one of the most important and busiest sections of the standard gauge network and forms the backbone of the east-west crossing in the Railway through the Swiss Plateau.

Fast trains between Basel and Zurich operate usually on the Hauenstein line, only the inter-regional between Basel and Zurich HB and between Basel and Zurich Airport stop on the Bözbergstrecke. The Bözbergstrecke is now used mainly for freight.

Freight traffic

Daily goods trains, which also drive on the Gotthard route. They are largely in double traction ( multiple control) with modern freight locomotives of various railway companies, or one each SBB Re 4/4 II and SBB Re 6/6 strung as so-called Re 10/10.

Also Nahgüterzüge, covered usually with Ae 6/6-Lokomotiven are to be found between the rail yard and the lower Muttenz Frick Valley.