Chur Stadt (Rhaetian Railway station)

The overview of the stations of the Arosa train describes all located on the railway line from Chur to Arosa, existing and former railway stations, holding and other services. All ligands is located in operating stations and stops are served by scheduled commercial regional trains of the line. They offer partial connectivity in secondary public transport.

• 4.1 depot and workshop sand
• 4.2 stop Chur- Sassal

History

As part of the construction of the Arosa Line (1912-1914), the then corporation Chur- Arosa line ( the Chicago Convention ) announced a competition for the design of the buildings along the railway line. For the evaluation of the proposals submitted, a jury was used, consisting of two independent architect and the chief engineer of railway construction, Gustav Bener. At this tender, eight companies, the plans for the carriage house in Chur, who presented five intermediate stations in Schanfigg and the station building in Arosa involved. Since the terminus Churchill came to rest on the station square in the existing mainline railway station building, here not a new building was needed. The Chur Otto Manz got the depot on the sand awarded Aroser Alfonso Rocco was allowed to build the intermediate stations and the Zurich architect Meier and Arter received the buildings of the Arosa train station.

The station building of Schanfigger intermediate stations

For the intermediate stations Lüen - Castiel, St. Peter- Molinis, Peist, Long Meadow and Litzirüti architect Rocco had developed a new standard design. Ways otherwise Stations of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) regularly elongated building on, this is due to the expediency, because for cargo handling, this design important advantages. Rocco turned his station building to a less pronounced transhipment from, but the connection was a house with an adjoining small goods shed in the architectural center. The he created five chalets fall on not only by their flashy jewelry geraniums, they also fit well into the surrounding countryside them and the usual construction in the valley, which is why they gained high recognition in the Swiss Heritage Society. Due to the corresponding awareness of the station building, Swiss Post to the Swiss federal holiday a special stamp issued on 1 August 1947 the abbildete the station Lüen - Castiel.

The intermediate stations, all three floors comprising of personnel and no longer served today, resting on a masonry base. The building, a Strickbau, rises above this base and is covered with a slightly projecting gable roof. The facade of the living area has a symmetrical shape, in the center a balcony is recessed. The roof has a distinctive Mass, especially since it has moved to the side of the attached goods shed as a side porch. Its cantilevered met on the side of the track the function of a Perron roof.

In the three-part ground floor of the waiting room, the station office as well as the goods sheds were. The two upper floors of the building served as housing for the station master, the first the kitchen and the living room was home. In the goods shed Rocco installed a small pantry that can be accessed from the first floor. Three other rooms are on the second floor, and each of them has a window. Affixed to the main facades inscriptions make reference to the surrounding countryside and include pertinent sayings, partly framed by the year 1914, and supplemented by the respective altitude. The buildings were designed based on the location and the local conditions in part mirror symmetry. The stations are equipped with modern ticket machines, mounted transversely on the main façade standard station clocks, as well as identical, stone fountain with trough attached to a chain, cast-iron drinking cups.

The cost of the intermediate stations amounted to 24,000 Swiss francs each, the total insurance value amounted in 1915 to 395,000 Swiss francs. The existing station today addresses in old German script were supplemented in the 1960s by illuminated white- blue plastic addresses that were later additionally provided with the RhB logo. Since the abandonment of an operation of different facilities, the buildings are rented out as residences, but will be still owned by the RhB. This invested in 2013 ahead of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Arosa train two million francs into the rejuvenation of the station building. The renovation work included alongside painting on the facade and the repair of the steep roofs, asphalt pavements, waiting rooms, toilets and electrical installations.

The centers there from the outset, sidings, and the operation was initially, however, is conducted by means of graphical schedule, telephone and telegraph signals without. In the 1960s, the sidings were extended to 145 meters to increase capacity at all stations and intersections.

Current operating points

Chur railway station

At Chur train station, the departure point of the Arosa train is on the Chur Station Square, next to the 2008 rebuilt station building of the Swiss Federal Railways ( SBB) of 1858. He is operationally integrated into the appropriate locations and features two tracks with covered side platforms. The platform roof of track 1 is shared with the adjacent Chur bus companies. For the overall infrastructure also includes a park - and-ride parking garage and bicycle shelters. The train station is next door also served by the lines of the SBB and RhB and supplemented by all bus routes in the city traffic.

Were opened, the equipment for the Arosa train with the inclusion of rail operations on 11 December 1914. The tracks of the Arosa train were to 2007 in the middle of the station square. 1927 these were increased along with the sidings to assemble the trains before departure can, without having to block the passage of individual. At the same time the space station has received a cobblestone pavement. 1938, the tracks were extended to seventy meters towards Engadinstrasse and connected to a special tram crossover. 1984/85 they built the tracks again to. A major project for tunneling the Arosa train at Chur station had to be abandoned in 1996 for lack of already asked the prospect of federal contributions. 2007, the double-track route to the Engadine Street to just before the junction was extended into the grave street. There is a connecting track to the main line of the RhB.

Stop Chur city

The stop Chur city lies on Plessurquai against the Lindenquai, immediately adjacent to the historic center. The station has a simple open shelter with uncovered seating areas, ticket vending machines and an electronic billboard. The track is located on the right hand side. Since the construction of a roundabout at the Upper Gate Bridge, 2010, the road traffic is allowed on the course for butcher bridge has only Arosa ago, which greatly facilitates the operation of trains. There is parking for cars and bicycles in the parking garages Arcas and Lindenquai. The city bus does not operate the station, although the line 9 ( station - Meier floor ) it goes right past. Swiss Post operates something up further its own stop " city " at the Jochstrasse on their Postbus Schanfigg.

Until the establishment of pedestrian passage Praximerbrückli in the 2000s, the station was Chur city about 80 meters further up the river, close to the butcher bridge at the entrance to Arcas. This led regularly to a temporary blockage of car traffic. A waiting shelter did not exist, only a ticket machine and a ticket validator. After the loan is approved, an extensive underground tunnel to the Arosa train in Chur in 1988 by the city's voters emblazoned at the local, Quaimauer previous years in white color in this respect critical spell tunnel bunker Millionenflunker.

Service station Untersax

The service station is located between the tunnel Untersax Saxer nose and Calfreisertobel Viaduct. It is a pure intersection. It was taken in June 1926 in operation in order to improve the schedule stability and to guarantee the connections to the SBB in Chur. The service station has a small wooden fixtures and shelter with two doors and a short Stump track to Calfreisertobel Viaduct down. A footpath connects the intersection point on the middle of the forest located, former settlement Untersax with Mala Manual This district Sax on the Schanfiggerstrasse. When stop the service station was never used notwithstanding.

Station Lüen - Castiel

The station Lüen - Castiel is the first of the mentioned typical Schanfigger intermediate stations and next to the train station Litzirüti one of the two intersection points at the 60-minute basic clock. It is situated around 50 meters below the small settlement Lüen, with which it is connected by a narrow carriage road. The second served by this station village Castiel is even some 240 meters above the railway station, which has proved for the local inhabitants already in the web opening as disadvantageous. Soon, therefore, Castiel was connected from Chur also Postbus courses. The left of the track standing station has no connection to other public transport and parking at the small station space is limited. Shortly before Lüen - Castiel is located right at kilometer 8.1, a 50 percent steep funicular railway that has its own temporary stop and down to the power plant Lüen of Arosa energized. Where the electricity for the Arosa Line was produced until the conversion of the contact wire voltage 1997. The station Lüen - Castiel, which is moderately personnel no longer occupied since 1985, has in addition to the two driving tracks via a short track Stump.

St. Peter's Station - Molinis

The St. Peter- Molinis station marks the approximate distance half of the Arosa train. He is also almost exactly halfway between the villages below or above St. Peter and Molinis on a narrow, slightly widened recently connecting road. This crosses the tracks as a light and sound signals secure, unbounded crossing and is continued as a public, but in winter frozen Forststrässchen on the other side of the valley to Tschiertschen. Even St. Peter was developed due to its remote location to the station over time additionally by public postal Autokurse from Chur. The St. Peter- Molinis station was scheduled train crossing the railway station for a longer time. With the conversion of the contact wire voltage track systems have been significantly extended and lifted the former middle track in favor of a Stump track on the edge of the station square. This is mainly the Holzverlad. During the winter and summer season is on the weekends also a public bus service from the station to the sports and leisure area Hochwang above St. Peter- Pagig. The station area has a limited space to parking. In 1985, the station St. Peter- Molinis is no longer occupied by railway personnel.

Station Peist

The Peist train station is about 90 meters below the eponymous village. He, too, is no longer performed since 1985 by a station master and only accessible from above by a narrow and winding access road. There is no direct connection to the Postal bus, consisting of Churchill for 30 years to the village square Peist. Slope side behind the station building is an artificial amphibians and plant habitat. A 350 -year-old ash with 9.25 meters in circumference at the station site was removed in the fall of 2013 on behalf of the Rhaetian Railway of fungi and other biological infestation. On Peist station hardly Parking is available.

Station Long Meadow

The Long Meadow Station is located on the southeast corner of the Lower Wis. Right behind it is the local agricultural Milchzentrale. The settlement area of long Wiesenplatz way down to the train station. This is one reason why long meadow - like the entire top Schanfigg - has no alternative postal bus links. The leading to Station Street crossing, visually and acoustically protected, the railway line and continues towards Palätsch - Gründji. There is the Gründjitobel Viaduct, surrounded by bizarre erosion formations. The artificially constructed subgrade of the station long meadow served as an installation space for the adjacent Langwieser viaduct. A hiking trail leads via Dürrboden the Plessur along to Litzirüti. The station has long meadow next to the Arosa train on the most extensive track systems Arosa railway, which were completely renovated in 1971; it has, besides three continuous lines of rails with two narrow platforms on two tracks Stump. The long meadow station was until recently the last staffed station occupied between Chur and Arosa. He has, like most other Schanfigger stations over a few parking spaces but do not have connection to further public transport. The station would be long meadow next to the Arosa train a possible starting point for a currently still visionary railway connection between the Schanfigg and Davos.

Station Litzirüti

The Litzirüti station is the last of Schanfigger intermediate stations on the way to Arosa and the train station Lüen - Castiel one of the two scheduled commercial crossing points. It is situated in the former Langwieser fraction Litzirüti, immediately behind a hotel on the Schanfiggerstrasse which is crossed by the train just before the entrance to the train station. Since the Chur urban area, it is the first time that the railway line reached the height of the main road. The station has two driving tracks and a short Stump track. Public Parking is available directly at the station virtually none. Like most other Schanfigger stations is also Litzirüti no longer occupied since 1985 with railway staff. The waiting room and the station office had earlier converted into a small restaurant, called Bäsabeizli Litzirüti. Due to the central location of the station Litzirüti by any other public transport is operated. The Litzirüti station until the mid -1930s, the loading and return station bobsled Arosa. It trails lead towards Arosa, Long Meadow and Molinis.

Service station pit reel

The service station pit reel is around 2.8 kilometers from the terminus Arosa between the Ronggried and the Rütland below the dam Arosa. It was established in 1937 as a crossing point to improve operational flexibility and fitted with a 140 -meter-long siding. So it presents itself today. She is the youngest of all departments of the Arosa train. The original small shelter still stands and bears the date 1937. A bigger office building exposed concrete was Next to it later built. The service station is located directly on the blue Rüfi, a highly erosive piercing field of Plessur by a prehistoric landslide from Chlein Furggahorn. At the upper end of the passing point of herkommende of Arosa Usserwaldweg ( Old Post Road ) crosses the railway to an unsecured transition.

Station Arosa

The Arosa train station is the terminus of the Arosa train. It is located on 1,739 m between the eastern slope of the upper lake and Tschuggen, near the Post Arosa and the former Church of England. He is after the station St. Moritz 's highest railway terminus of the RhB. The stylish original station building had to give a sober construction in the 1960s. There are also a goods shed, a Güterverladestation and a carriage house on the left side of the track. The station has three driving and various Stump tracks and two station platforms. It provides connection to both lines of the local bus network, as well as to the Weisshornbahn. There is parking at the nearby car park upper lake. For extended infrastructure of the station Arosa barrier system below the lower lake at the Iselstrasse and the local concrete plant with private Stump track and other railway service facilities can be counted. With regard to the 100 - year anniversary of the Arosa train the system is redesigned for more than 24 million francs to December 2014. The extensive modernization is a collaboration between the RhB, the canton of Grisons, the community and the Arosa Arosa mountain railways AG.

Closed operating points

Depot and workshop sand

Due to lack of space at Chur station had to be created at kilometer 1.4 the car depot and workshop of the path in the sand. The planned and executed by Otto Manz system fits well despite the large size of the building in the peripheral area a city. In reference to the rocky environment of the nearby Plessurlaufs dominates here as a building material of the stone, which also had a positive impact on the fire protection measures required for the operation.

Initially possessed the depot sand facilities, which made it possible to perform in almost all areas of engineering repairs. Since the opening track here concerned the depot manager with about eight employees, the maintenance of railcars and execution of web- internal orders. Although the merger with the RhB in 1942 brought changes technical and economic nature, however, the autonomy of the depot remained until about 1970 largely preserved. After some work has been centralized in the RhB main workshop in country Quart. In the result, the tasks of the depot sand concentrated on the maintenance of the railcars ABe 4/4 who were stationed there at night. Winters, three further railcars of the Bernina Railway were added and nineteen railcar that had been specially converted for use for the contact wire voltage of the Arosa train.

1984/85 the tracks were rebuilt in the sand and extends the siding. With the change of the contact wire voltage of 1997 eleven kilovolts alternating the depot sand that was last called web service base Chur sand was, as such superfluous and closed. It now serves a track construction company to house its vehicles. Despite this, there continues to exist an intersection, stop as this is not used.

Stop Chur- Sassal

The stop Chur- Sassal was built in 1922. It was located just outside the city limits of Hur and served mainly that of the area Meier floor and the Mala Manual This area fire field. The latter is connected with the former stop on a steep, unpaved footpath. The trains stopped at Sassal on demand in front of a residential building, just before the train leaves the dirt road to the left. An operational infrastructure, such as a shelter or a seat, there was not. With the operation of the area by the Chur bus the stop was practically no longer used and closed in 2001. Today it is the same stop on the city bus line 9 and a traffic light system for road traffic.