Lake Zürich left-bank railway line
The left bank Zürichseebahn, also left bank Seebahn (often simply left bank or Seebahn ) called, is a September 20, 1875 by the Swiss Northeastern Railway (NOB ) opened railway from Zurich main station via brick bridge to Naefels. With the nationalization of the NOB Seebahn 1902 was part of the newly founded Swiss Federal Railways ( SBB).
Before the railway line was opened along the left bank of Lake Zurich, perverted the first high-speed trains between Zurich and Chur over Uster. When the right bank Zürichseebahn was opened in 1894, the term Seebahn had long been established in Zurich for the track on the left bank and by appropriate road and object names he is to this day.
- 3.1 Zurich - Thalwil
- 3.2 Thalwil -Pfäffikon brick bridge
- 3.3 brick bridge - Naefels
Route
Zurich - Thalwil
The Seebahn leaves the field as Zurich track southerly double track on the carbon triangle that is formed by the routes Hauptbahnhof- Wiedikon Wiedikon Altstetten and a compound Hauptbahnhof- Altstetten. The carbon triangle served during the operation of the steam storage of coal, today is at this point the SBB substation carbon triangle.
At the opening of 1875, the tracks between Zurich HB and Wollishofen went not in deep level. They crossed twelve streets and three tram lines on the same level, which from the turn of the century led to significant traffic delays after hardly foreseeable in the construction advent of the automobile. This was particularly disturbing after 1897, the railway line Thalwil - Arth -Goldau was opened, so that the trains from Zurich towards Gotthard drove over the Seebahn. The NOB originally planned to build an elevated trackbed, the Zurich city sat down but with the desire for a leadership position in depth by. The new route with Seebahn incision, Wiedikon - Ulmberg tunnels and narrow tunnel was opened on 1 March 1927. The old Ulmbergtunnel was converted into a road tunnel and is still in operation today ( west tunnel of the Ulmbergtunnels 47.3676428.530088 ). Reminders of the original route are a Bahnwärterhaus 47.3685438.528603 and the building line of the houses Alfred Escher -Str. 4, 6 and 10, as well as Gotthardstrasse 62 47.3650068.532385.
Since 1927, the tracks run in Seebahn incision and go under the station building designed as a rider Station Wiedikon in the Ulmbergtunnel about which issues tightness in the incision of the station., Branching off after the train station Wiedikon leads the connecting track through the tunnel to Manesseplatz SZU into the station Giesshübel. After the narrowness and the subsequent narrow tunnel station it opens again before it reaches the Zurich Wollishofen station in the original lines of 1875. Parallel to Seebahn incision in the city of Zurich runs the Seebahnstrasse that led to transit traffic from the A3 motorway to motorway A1 by the city of Zurich 1982-2009.
South of Wollishofen leaves the city of Zurich the Seebahn. Following are the railway stations Kilchberg and Rüschlikon before the route reaches the Thalwil station.
Since 2004 more branches in the city of Zurich in Seebahn incision of the Zimmerberg Base Tunnel, which realized the first stage forms a parallel to Seebahn second double track. This route passes without intermediate stations directly to Thalwil and is used by the quick and freight trains. It opens directly in front of the railway station Thalwil back into the old track of Seebahn.
Thalwil brick bridge - Naefels
At the south end of the station of Thalwil the route branches off Thalwil - train, which was opened in 1897 by the NOB as a feeder to Zurich Gotthard Bahn ( GB). The crossing-free unbundling of the two routes accomplished the oldest Überwerfung in the SBB network, which was taken on December 7, 1962, with the double - track Thalwil Horgen Oberdorf the line to train in operation. The route to train through the tunnel Zimmerberg and Albis tunnel in the city train, where the port is created on the track train - Arth -Goldau GB.
Along the Seebahn follow the railway stations Oberrieden and Horgen, from where the route mostly runs directly on the lakeshore. In Horgen appeared on September 20, 1875 - two days after the inauguration - the steamboat jetty cracks. That same day, sank three tracks of the station with 6,500 square meters of reclaimed land in Lake Zurich. In the following two days the water swallowed the outhouse. Goods shed and station had a meter is lowered so that they had to be canceled. Only after 13 years Horgen came to a station building.
After the station Au ZH Wädenswil where the 1877 by the Wädenswil -Einsiedeln Railway ( WE) opened railway line Wädenswil -Einsiedeln branches follows. Continue to follow the railway stations Richterswil, Baech and Freisbach SBB before the Seebahn reached the railway junction Pfäffikon. In Pfäffikon branches since 1878 by the Zurich - Gotthard Bahn ( CC) opened rail line from Rapperswil that crosses the lake dam of Rapperswil, on which the construction of the Civil Code was involved. The continuation from Lake Zurich towards Gotthard railway to Arth -Goldau was opened in 1891 not by the Civil Code, but already by the Swiss South-East Railway (SOB ), which was created in 1890 from the merger of the Swiss Civil Code with the WE.
Along the Upper Lake Zurich follows the railway station of Altendorf, where is the power plant headquarters of Etzelwerk AG. The original of the Nordostschweizerischen power plants ( NOK) and the SBB established company since 1987, a 100 percent subsidiary of SBB and produced in the same pumped-storage power plant mainly traction power by exploiting the difference in height between the Sihl and Lake Zurich.
With the train station of laughter followed by the last village on the Upper Lake Zurich. The railway line then passes through the Linthebene with the railway stations Siebnen -Wangen, Schübelbach - Buttikon, rich castle, Bilten and brick bridge. During the railway node brick bridge ends the regional trains and S -Bahn, take the express trains on the railway bridge brick -Sargans on. The original Seebahn NOB leads one lane through the station Nider and upper boxes to the old route end point in the station Naefels - Mollis. Today, this single-track section is a part of Regionalzugslinie Rapperswil- Glarus Linthal, and the train station Naefels - Mollis is no longer a terminus.
In Naefels an industrial track recalls that once led a railway from Naefels to Weesen, which in 1859 by the United Swiss Railways ( VSB) was created as part of the route Ruti ZH- Rapperswil- brick bridge -Weesen - Naefels -Glarus. The passenger traffic on this line was set between 1918 and Weesen Naefels. The disused section Weesen - Naefels 1931 was canceled.
Accidents
On March 16, 1909 in Au ZH drove the express Sargans - Zurich due to incorrect switch position in some standing on the Schupp narrow Softly wagons. Two working in a freight car people died, two were injured.
On August 6, 1957 drove between laughter and Altendorf, a passenger on a standing on the open road to express, who was traveling to Chur. The express train had to perform an emergency maneuver, because the signal had been placed immediately on stop at the drive-through. 36 people were injured.
On 2 February 1999 RBe 4/4-Pendelzug the S -Bahn line S1 at the Zurich train station Wiedikon crashed sideways into a derailed cars of a fast train Zurich -Lucerne. The S -Bahn train was slashed to three car lengths. A severely injured postal worker, who was in the luggage compartment of the train - control car died later in hospital. The derailment of the last car of the express train was caused by a broken rail.
On 17 May 2003, a blank composition Südostbahn (SOB ) bounced into Pfäffikon in a standing inter-regional train Basel SBB -Chur. Although the entry signal was coming from the Samstagern SOB NPZ heralds the entrance to the occupied track, noticed the driver just before impact the standing Interregio. 18 people, mainly in Interregio were injured. The vehicles in large property had been damaged.
Operation
The Seebahn was automated in the 1990s, and the few unoccupied signal boxes at major stations from the remote control centers of Zurich (HB -Pfäffikon ) and brick bridge ( Pfäffikon- brick bridge - Naefels ) controlled.
Zurich - Thalwil
The section between Zurich and Thalwil has to deal with the most traffic, he has remained for the people across Zurich 's most important feeder to the Gotthard Railway and handles inter-regional traffic by train to Lucerne. In the S -Bahn is the distance of the shortest connection by train, where due to the shortage of capacity ( single-lane Zimmerberg tunnel ) is given the slightly longer route and operational planning of the preference by the Knonauer office. For the same reason the freight transport in the direction of Gotthard is usually conducted with a detour via the Aargauische Southern Railway.
Since the opening of the Zimmerberg Base Tunnel 2004, this refers to the complete express and freight, while the actual Seebahn is practically sail only on the S -Bahn Zurich. However, a massive bottleneck caused the non -intersecting integration of the base tunnel in the Seebahn at Thalwil, which also reduces four lanes to two lanes. This is used to tunnel any increase in capacity, but primarily the noise. Here is the second part of the Zimmerberg Base Tunnel would have brought relief. This has been deferred because of funding.
Thalwil -Pfäffikon brick bridge
The traffic between Thalwil and brick bridge includes all trains from the Zurich metropolitan area across the railway line to Sargan to Graubünden and St. Gallen Rhine Valley, including the Intercity trains to Chur, inter-regional trains, as well as some international trains to Austria, which operate via Buchs SG - Feldkirch. Furthermore, the route also serves the national freight transport and freight trains from the Central Plateau to the freight depot Buchs SG.
The Regional Transport denies the S -Bahn Zurich. Runs of the two S -Bahn lines with a stop at all stations to Pfäffikon, accelerates the second runs between Zurich and Pfäffikon and on to brick bridge with stop at all stations and replaced in the latter section, the regional trains.
Brick bridge - Naefels
Between brick bridge and the railway station Naefels - Mollis, the section is primarily for regional traffic between Rapperswil and Glarus.
S -Bahn Zurich
- S 2 Effretikon - Zurich Airport - Zurich HB - Pfäffikon - Brick bridge Keeps between Pfäffikon and Zurich Enge only in Richterswil, Wädenswil, Horgen and Thalwil
- S 8 ( Weinfelden - ) Winterthur HB - Wallisellenstrasse - Zurich HB - Pfäffikon Operates between Weinfelden and Winterthur weekdays only every hour
- S 21 ( Zurich HB - ) Thalwil - train Operates between Zurich and Thalwil only in rush hours
- S 24 Zurich HB - Thalwil - Horgen Oberdorf
- SN8 ( Oerlikon - ) Zurich HB - Enge - Thalwil - Horgen - Wädenswil - Pfäffikon - Lachen SZ ( CRVO - night network)
Pictures
Ulmbergtunnel of 1875
A lowered Seebahnabschnitt Wiedikon
Reiter station Zurich - Wiedikon