Stadtbahn Glattal
The Glattalbahn (originally rail Glatt valley ) is a meterspuriges tram infrastructure project in the north of the city of Zurich and the northern suburban communities in the Glatt valley. The route is part of the Zurich tram and binds the city circuits 11 and 12 and the municipalities Opfikon / Glattbrugg, Zürich, Wallisellenstrasse, Dübendorf, Kloten and in a further step, Bassersdorf better to the power of public transport in Zurich.
Licensee and owner of the infrastructure of rail transport are the Glattal (VBG ). The Glattalbahn to, among other things the Zurich main station via Oerlikon - connect to the Zurich airport - a center in the Glatt Valley. For this, the Glattalbahn is built so that it is connected to the rail network of the Zurich Public Transport ( VBZ) and the rolling stock is compatible. With the operation of the Glattalbahn were commissioned by the VBG VBZ.
- 2.1 Depot
- 2.2 nodes
Stretch
Messe / Hallenstadion Straight Park Auzelg (Stage 1)
From September 2004 to November 2006, a connection was built to the tram line 11 VBZ. From the new branch at the station Messe / Hallenstadion the Trassee leads out of town on the central Thurgauerstrasse through the branch Leutschenbach for branching Straight Park ( originally Ambassador ), where you turn towards the east and leads north at TV studio over to the turning loop Auzelg. The plants were taken on 11 October 2006 by the VBG. On October 16, the tests began, led by the VBZ. On the basis of the Decline and trial operation by the VBZ the VBG was granted the definitive operating license by the Federal Office of Transport (FOT ) on 29 November 2006.
Operation
Contrary to initial plans ( separate " Line B ") is operated the first stage due to the extended tram line 11 VBZ. The commissioning took place on 10 December 2006 timetable change. It can be used trams of type Be 4 /6 « Tram 2000 " and Be 5 /6 « Cobra » VBZ. In the medium term, the aim is to use tram 2000 on the Cobra trams half and half.
On the new route, the normal interval timetable of Zurich city is: during the day every 7.5 minutes in the evening and on Sundays every 10 minutes, and in the off-peak hours every 15 minutes.
First time since 1956, are tram stops which are served by the VBZ (just ) outside the city of Zurich, in the field of community Opfikon and thus, strictly speaking, outside the tariff zone of the city of Zurich; the entire section Glattpark - Auzelg was adopted as a fare zone boundary, on the ticket of two adjoining tariff zones are valid.
Three bus routes were revised with commissioning of the rail to avoid parallel transports; the endpoint of the line 45 was from the old station Auzelg (new Auzelg East) placed in front of the SRZ - training center Rohwiesen, whereby a part of the Auzelg settlement has lost the direct connection to the Oerlikon train station and has to take a long walk way in purchasing. The line 788 ( Bahnhof Oerlikon -TMC), which was operated only during peak times in the load direction, was shut down. Your task took over the line 781 in peak times with additional direct trips ( as a line E781 ) between Oerlikon train station and the new station Earth Arts route, next to the houses of the first stage of the smooth park.
Straight Park Airport Cargo (Stage 2)
In September 2006, the second stage of the Glattalbahn was tackled, whose commissioning has taken place on 14 December 2008. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on 27 October. Created a distance from the branch Straight Park in the north to the airport. The first section also includes two large engineering structures with a correspondingly high construction cost.
The route runs from the stop Glattpark further Thurgauerstrasse along north to stilt. Here the stalk tunnel passes under the railway lines Oerlikon Oerlikon -Kloten airport. From Bahnhof Glattbrugg the Glattalbahn follows shortly the railway line Oerlikon - top smooth and follows the Flughofstrasse ( individual traffic was transferred to the Birch Street ) to the north. On the southern edge of the airport area of Balsberg Viaduct, which carries the Glattalbahn reasons of space above the Flughofstrasse at the height of the embankment of the track Oerlikon -Kloten begins - a stop in the high position on the viaduct is via a walkway parallel to the railway embankment on the A51 motorway leading the connection to the station Balsberg ago. Later the airport the Glattalbahn regained street level and reached the bus station started in the fifth airport construction stage at Zurich Airport. From there it goes east to the terminus Airport cargo. This turn loop was designed so that at a later date relatively easily an extension to Kloten and Bassersdorf can be established.
Coinciding with the VBG VBZ created between late 2007 and mid-2008, a nearly 500 -meter-long tram route, which branches off from the tram route Oerlikon -Seebach and performs on the Binzmühlestrasse for branching Leutschenbach.
Operation
Originally planned as a new " line A " since December 14, 2008 reversed the VBZ Tram line 10 ( Hauptbahnhof-Bhf. Oerlikon ) new stars from Oerlikon to stop Bahnhof Oerlikon Ost, where it branches off from the existing tram route and east over the new VBZ tram route to the branch Leutschenbach leads. With the line 11 she shares on the section to the branching Glattpark the tracks of the first stage and takes over where the tracks of the second stage to the airport.
Even with the operation of the second stage of the VBZ were commissioned. At the request of VBG are on the line 10 exclusively Cobra trams come into Glattal used, in the new corporate design of the VBG. More points of the final operational concept were for a long time not entirely clear, so corresponded among other things sought by the VBG clock pattern ( on the new line in the main traffic every 7.5 minutes, or every 15 minutes), not the former urban -interval timetable, but this was not necessary, of course, since the VBZ their regular timetable so far changed in December 2008 when the HVZ the trams to run every 7.5 minutes. The open questions were also directly related to the Tram Zurich West, which is to go in December 2011 and also the line will affect 10.
Auzelg Station Dübendorf ( Stage 3 )
From the terminus Stettbach the existing tram line 7 a line leading to the turning loop Auzelg. From there it runs on the tracks of the extended line 11 to park and then smooth on the tracks of the extended line 10 towards the airport cargo. This line was given the number 12 in the original plan, the term " line C " was used.
Construction of this section was July 10, 2008, shortly before completion of the second stage. It was completed in September 2010, the start-up took place after a trial period along with the timetable change on 12 December 2010.
The core of this third stage is the lines on the territory of the municipality Wallisellenstrasse: After the station Neugut performs a 1'209 m long viaduct under the A1 motorway, then reached the created in high altitude station Smooth, which the same shopping center as well as the right thing area opens up. From there, the viaduct continues to Wallisellenstrasse station, the SBB railway line is bridged.
Options
« Ringbahn Hardwald »
An extension of the Glattalbahn from the terminus Airport cargo to Bassersdorf station is planned. The route will lead along the Altbachs through Klotener center and branch in the industrial area on the Steinackerstrasse on which they weiterverläuft to the industrial area in Grindelwald Bassersdorf. After crossing the village center, the route continues to the station.
The complete closure of the ring around the hard wood by means of a connection from Bassersdorf station to station Neugut in Dübendorf ( station Bassersdorf - Station Dietlikon - Industrial Dietlikon - cheeks - Dübendorf airfield - Neugut ) is another option, for which the corresponding Trassee is kept free.
Tram extensions
Closely related to the Glattalbahn are possible extensions of the tram lines VBZ. As a result, the regional transport conference Glattal are extensions of the tram lines 7 ( to Dübendorf North Station and later cheeks) and 9 (after closing the center and the train station later Dietlikon South) registered in the cantonal structure plan that would share the track beds Glattalbahn. Due to the population and traffic forecasts no need for this is recognized, however, until 2025, so there is currently no concrete plans nor license applications for the respective routes.
Infrastructure
Depot
In the original plan, a depot in the area Oberhauserriet / Straight park was intended for the Glattalbahn. This has been deleted as part of the revisions. The VBZ been entrusted with the entire operation on the Glattalbahn infrastructure. The problem of accommodating the vehicles has been transferred to the ITR.
The vehicle increased demand could be covered by the redemption of existing ordering options for Cobra trams that had VBZ completed in late 2005 with Bombardier Transportation. Since these vehicles, however, were delivered only after completion of the ongoing delivery of the first main series, the additional requirements had to be met from its own stock for the time being. This meant that these materials destined for scrapping " Mirage trams ' up to June 2010 for far longer than planned in use.
To accommodate the vehicles for the Glattalbahn the tram depot Oerlikon has been extended; it is the only of the five VBZ depots, located in the Glatt Valley, and only this vault allows reasonably short travel times to the operational area. The custodian hall was expanded to include four new sidings and adjusted the infrastructure to service the Cobra trams can. The construction was started in 2010.
Nodes
The central hub of the Glattalbahn is the stop Straight park on the outskirts of Zurich Glattbrugg, which is served by both the extended line of 10 and 11 as well as the new lines 12.
The branch Leutschenbach (originally Airgate ) was also created as part of the first stage. It was completed during the second stage of the VBZ and connected to the tram route Oerlikon -Seebach at the bus stop Bahnhof Oerlikon Ost.
The airport stations, Balsberg, Glattbrugg and Wallisellenstrasse, which were previously only accessible by coach received stops in the network of Glattalbahn. The Oerlikon railway stations and Dübendorf who've been tapped by tram lines are now served by lines that travel through the network of Glattalbahn.
Legal status as a purely local traffic
The Glattalbahn (tram line 10) is in accordance with the Swiss legislation a distance with pure local traffic because it runs parallel to existing regional lines. For this reason, may be used on its Article 9, paragraph 2 of the Schedule hereto. This means that the publication of the lines is sufficient, which is of course with the publication in the field of 70,000 cases. So there is no obligation to publish a roadmap, in which the precise transport time is shown for each composition.