Trams in Winterthur

The tram Winterthur was a narrow gauge tramway in the Swiss city of Winterthur and its 1922 eingemeindeten neighboring towns Töss, Wülflingen, Upper Winterthur and lakes. It consisted 1898-1951 and was gradually replaced after 1938 by the trains running today Trolleybus Winterthur. Responsible transport company was initially the company Winterthur -Töss (WT ), this was 1900 in Urban tram Winterthur ( StStW ) and in 1940 in Winterthur transport companies (VW) renamed. Today, the company trades as city bus Winterthur.

History

Once in Winterthur 1895-1897 already wrong horse omnibuses, which opened on July 13, 1898 Tramway was the second public transport in the city. Their first track was 1.770 km long and passed as a radial line from Winterthur train station to Töss. The city side terminal was not originally on the station square but the restaurant waiting man - that is at the confluence of Wartstrasse in the Rudolfstrasse and thus on the west side of the railway facilities. The tram was used as a supplement to the existing railway line since 1876 Winterthur -Koblenz, where the community with the Töss station already owned a station. The city of Foreign terminus was located approximately at today's trolley bus stop center Töss. A single ticket cost ten cents, the wrong tram every ten minutes.

Initially, the vehicles of the tram were parked in a wooden vault on the grounds of the resident Töss Maschinenfabrik Rieter. For this purpose existed in Töss following the served in the passenger section of a 274 -meter-long operation range. Rieter presented as general contractor on behalf of the city also produces the track system, the catenary and the first generation car. In addition, the company was initially responsible for the power supply of electrified from the outset tram, until 1904 took over the municipal power company Winterthur this task. The DC voltage was 550 volts. After the turn of the century extended the route network as follows:

• = With simultaneous closure of about 200 meters long section in the Rudolfstrasse
• = With simultaneous closure of the operation range in Töss

At the Tösstalstrasse in today's quarters Mattenbach the StStW opened on October 31, 1914 also a separate depot for the tram. This so-called depot Deutweg still serves the insinuation of buses. With the recent expansion to Oberwinterthur the tram network reached its maximum expansion of 11.140 kilometers, of which 1.154 km double track. The further route expansion - for example, a angedachte extension to the Central Cemetery in Rosenberg - was omitted in favor of the 1931 recorded bus operation, or the forced conversion from 1938 to trolleybus. Following a plebiscite on 20 February 1938, the tram important then as follows the new transport:

However, part of the route of Line 2 was the out - and -coming cars of Line 1 until last as production route to and from the depot Deutweg.

Rolling stock

For the tram Winterthur 24 Motor cars and nine trailers were procured over the years:

Were supplemented motorcars around the working Xe car 2/2 111 and termination two open wagons.