Solothurn railway station

The Solothurn station is a junction of several normal and meterspuriger Railroads. It is located in the suburb of Solothurn, Switzerland, near the city limits of Zuchwil.

The Solothurn station, originally New Solothurn is often referred to as Central Station Solothurn in Solothurn West Train Station differentiation from older, who is still only Regionalzugshalt today. Although this term is not officially, there is accordingly in Solothurn also a Hauptbahnhofstrasse.

History

The town of Solothurn was already on June 1, 1857 it's first for the line of the Swiss Central Railway ( SCB) of Olten on Herzogenbuchsee to Solothurn. This station was on the north side of the river Aare, although even then the SCB would have preferred a railway station on the south side of the River Aare.

1876 ​​built the SCB Gäubahn of Solothurn Olten to about Oensingen as the last section of the Jura foot line to shorten the path to Solothurn and Biel in the direction opposite to the existing route via Herzogenbuchsee. The leadership of a train Olten -Solothurn about Herzogenbuchsee was further complicated because this had to navigate a hairpin there. The Gäubahn was opened on December 4, 1876, in Solothurn as a reception building only stood by a makeshift. Due to its location in the field of the suburbs and partly outside the development boundary of Solothurn, the station was known as New Solothurn. This designation was abandoned in 1915, since then the station is referred to only as Solothurn station.

With the opening of the railway station New Solothurn the existing station was renamed in Old Solothurn; this designation he held until the summer of 1915. SCB had tried to give up the old train station, which you did not succeed, and since the building, which opened on August 1, 1908 Solothurn -Münster -Bahn (SMB ) also would not have been meaningful. Alt -Solothurn was. Due to the SMB to the branch station, but ended the SMB trains from the beginning usually in the then new Solothurn Later Alt -Solothurn Solothurn was renamed West, which label the station still carries today. For a period of time also Solothurn city seems to have been in use since the Solothurn West is situated on the Old Town side of the Aare.

On the opening of the railway station New Solothurn, on 4 December 1876, both the Gäubahn as well as the distance from Solothurn to Busswil ( Lyss ) were opened. Even between Solothurn and Biberist the Emmental Railway (EB ) was put into operation on the same day.

Today's reception building of Solothurn " Central Station " was built from 1884 to 1886. It was probably in 1921 expanded to include lateral extensions. The name change from New Solothurn Solothurn station to station took place in the summer of 1915. Since the opening of ESB 1916, only the present name was used.

On April 9, 1916, the narrow gauge line Solothurn- Zollikofen was opened, it ends in the southern part of the station, where in 1914 a depot was built. From the former electric narrow-gauge railway Solothurn- Bern ( ESB) 1922 by the merger with BZB the Solothurn- Bern - Zollikofen train, which in turn since 1984 is part of the regional Bern-Solothurn.

In 1925, the narrow gauge route Solothurn Solothurn Basel Gate - opened. This range of Solothurn- Niederbipp -Bahn (SNB ) ends on the station forecourt. Although the train already on January 9, 1916 reached the city of Solothurn, but ended up at this time in the Basel Gate. The SNB belongs since 1999 to the Aare Seeland mobil.

The two narrow gauge railways were operated electrically from the beginning. The electrical operating on the route Biel- Olten was taken on December 23, 1927 on the EB on September 1, 1932 on the SMB on October 2, 1932, on the track Busswil - Herzogenbuchsee on 3 October 1944. All standard gauge tracks that touch a railway station of Solothurn, have been electrified with single-phase with a voltage of 15,000 volts at a frequency of 16.7 Hz.

The route Herzogenbuchsee -Solothurn was closed in 1992, the stretch of Solothurn - Derendingen today forms a branch of the upgraded line Solothurn- Wanzwil. The unused remaining distance between Their things and Herzogenbuchsee was dismantled.

1994 between Solothurn and Bueren an der Aare was shut down. The contact line was dismantled, the route to Arch from Solothurn is still used as Anschlussgeleis. In Bueren an der Aare, a buffer has been installed so that the distance is not more consistently passable, though still tracks are present along the entire route.

The route Solothurn Solothurn West, with the 104 -meter-long Aarebrücke, was expanded last between Biel and Solothurn doppelspurig on April 8, 1932 the route to Olten Hammer 1950-1955 ( Solothurn- Luterbach - Attisholz May 29, 1954 ). The first section of the route was extended Biberist double track along with the construction of the A5.

Railways and transport links

In Solothurn meet on standard gauge:

• The Jura foot line, with the Gäubahn
• The upgraded line Solothurn- Wanzwil or the former railway line Solothurn- Herzogenbuchsee,
• The railway line Solothurn- Lyss On Buren an der Aare, Solothurn- section on their Buren takes place no more passenger ( converted to bus operation),
• The railway line Solothurn -Burgdorf BLS ( former Emmental- Burgdorf- Thun -Bahn )
• The railway line Moutier -Solothurn BLS ( former Solothurn -Münster -Bahn )

As well as on meter gauge:

• Bern -Solothurn - Zollikofen of regional Bern-Solothurn
• Solothurn- Niederbipp - Langenthal the Aare Seeland mobil ( Solothurn- Niederbipp -Bahn ).

There is no track connection between the two meter gauge lines, the Solothurn- Niederbipp - run ends on the station square.

At the long-distance network of the Swiss Federal Railways Solothurn with InterCity tilting trains ( ICN ) of the line St. Gallen- Zurich HB- Biel / Bienne- Lausanne / Geneva and inter-regional line Biel / Bienne- Zurich HB-Weinfelden-Konstanz/Romanshorn ( alternating with the half and well connected on the hour ). The trains from Biel / Bienne- Constance were to the timetable change in December 2008, also ICN and were then replaced by formed from Mark IV Inter -regional trains, as a part of the tilting trains has since been used on the Gotthard railway.

Also, the passenger on the regional lines into the Emmental ( Burgdorf ), to Bern, Moutier and Niederbipp - Langenthal follows a tight schedule. The Solothurn station is well served by several bus lines that run from the bus operation Solothurn and surrounding area and the post bus Switzerland AG.