Jura foot railway line

As a law foot line or Jurasüdfusslinie is called the Swiss railway line that leads from Olten along the eponymous Jurasüdfusses about Solothurn-Grenchen-Biel/Bienne-Neuenburg-Yverdon-les-Bains to Morges and on to Geneva. It is the main east-west links in Switzerland, where the railway line in Ligerz is expanded only one lane. This leads especially in the regional trains to big problems.

There is also the midland line which connects the city of Olten about Langenthal -Burgdorf, Bern, Fribourg and Lausanne, Morges.

History

The continuous Jura foot line along the foot of the Jura was realized in different stages.

The oldest part is the section of the Compagnie de l' Ouest- Suisse ( OS) route opened in 1855 Yverdon- les- Bains- Bussigny -Renens -Morges. 1856 was followed by the connecting curve Bussigny -Morges and 1858 could drive from Morges along Lake Geneva to Geneva. 1859 followed the piece Yverdon- Vaumarcus and society Franco - Suisse ( FS ) opened the continuation of Vaumarcus after Frienisberg, a temporary railway station and harbor at Le Landeron on Lake Biel, where built by sea to connect to the station in 1858 in Nidau ​​consisted.

From the other side, the Swiss Central Railway ( SCB) Opened in 1857, the line from Olten on Herzogenbuchsee to Solothurn and the foot of the Jura along up to Biel. Today, the old route of Herzogenbuchsee is to Solothurn a part of the fit between Solothurn and Wanzwil. 1858 built the SCB a short distance from the train station to Nidau ​​Biel Lake Biel, from where on the sea route to connect to the temporary station built in 1859 in Frienisberg at Landeron existed. In 1860, on the gap along the northern shore of Lake Biel Biel after Landeron by the company Swiss Ostwestbahn ( OWB ) is closed, the SCB the short distance from Biel to Nidau ​​on December 10, 1860 presented still again.

By closing the gap on 3 December 1860 for the first time was possible, the Switzerland of the East ( St.Margrethen ) to the west ( Geneva ) to traverse all by train, even if you had to change trains several times because of the various railway companies.

The last section of the Jura foot line the line from Olten about Oensingen also Gäubahn was finally in December 1876, SCB opens to Solothurn, called.

Since the introduction of synchronized timetable, railway lines of Switzerland wearing three-digit numbers that are determined by the editors of the Swiss course book. To follow all the trains of the section Lausanne - Cossonay in the roadmap box 202 and the entire Jura foot line in field 210 lists.

Accidents

On March 22, 1871 joined due to incorrect switch position in Colombier station of the Franco - Suisse Militärextrazug with military personnel who were among the interned Bourbaki Army, with a stalled freight train together, which consisted of 22 coal cars and a baggage car. A platoon leader and 22 internees died, 72 people were injured. This was the hitherto most severe railway accident in Switzerland. → section railway accident of March 22, 1871 Article Colombier NE

On October 2, 1942, a freight train between Tüscherz and Biel joined together with a passenger train. Eleven people were killed and ten injured. A sleep-deprived locomotive engineer had run the stop signal. After the accident, the exit signals were fitted with Integra - Signum Switzerland far.

On December 8, 1978 lost in Vaumarcus a locomotive engineer his life ascended with a freight train on a standing in front of a signal other freight train. There was great damage to property. From two cars around 100 000 liters flowed from liquid bitumen, and came partly into Lake Neuchâtel.

4 August 2007 two freight trains collided BLS with two multiply- controlled Re 4/4 frontal marshalling yard Biel. A train driver was injured; there was great damage to property. Construction is underway, the freight trains had been diverted at Biel Mett over the yard. One of the train drivers had no knowledge of the track in the rail yard and had a signal disregarded.

Pictures

ICN at Essert- Pittet

References and Notes

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  • Swiss Federal Railways
  • Railway in the canton of Solothurn
  • Railway in the canton of Bern
  • Railway in the canton of Neuchâtel
  • Railway in the canton of Vaud
  • Railway in the Canton of Geneva
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