Winterthur–Bülach–Koblenz railway line

The railway line Winterthur -Koblenz was opened on 1 August 1876 by the Swiss Northeastern Railway (NOB ). It leads from Winterthur Bülach to Koblenz and is part of the direct connection towards Basel.

History

The track is a complement to the existing route network of the NOB. You should especially avoid that traffic migrated to distances of the competition, because had to be calculated and transported by the shortest route at the time when the freight car. Was the path of a competitor shorter, this had to be used, or competitive society, a compensation for the traffic loss to be paid. The track was promoted in regard to the planned by the Swiss National Railway and under construction routes, mainly because the distance between Wettingen and Winterthur have deducted the freight up. The plan included not only the route the Bülach -Baden railway, which was opened on 1 October 1877. So the route Wettingen -Winterthur on the NOB routes ( Wettingen - Bülach -Winterthur ) was shorter than the opened on September 6, 1877 SNB route through the Furttal.

The railway line begins in Winterthur train station. There was subsequent to the on May 16, 1855 opened NOB - route to novel horn included, which opened in the same year continued to Zurich and to the present in the NOB - owned former Rheinfallbahn to Schaffhausen. In Winterthur also consisted Following the competing routes of the United Swiss railways to St. Gallen and the SNB way to Stein am Rhein singing or Kreuzlingen. It leads to Bülach station, where since May 1, 1865, the Bülach Rain mountain train ended. From Bülach it via Eglisau on at the first Swiss border station, the Koblenz train station, where she has connection to the opened on August 18, 1859 railway from Turgi to Waldshut. This establishes a connection for parallel high Rheinbahn.

On 1 August 1892, the connection route Stein-Säckingen -Koblenz was opened by the Bötzbergbahn. On 1 June 1897, the NOB opened the railway line Eglisau - Neuhausen, which made ​​the section between Bülach and Eglisau to a transit route. During the rest of the track always remained a single-track branch line, the section between Bülach and Eglisau was double track expanded and opened along with the track to Neuhausen.

This section was also the first electrified, and on 15 December 1928, the electrical operating with 15,000 volts and 16.7 Hz could be included. The electrical equipment could be taken on July 15, 1945 on 1 July 1945 and between Winterthur and Bülach On the route between Koblenz and Eglisau. The electrification of the two remaining routes was part of Notelektrifizierungsprogramms adopted during the Second World War.

In the 1990s some stations were closed, but also set up new stops. The station Koblenz Village was built near the village center. The station Weiach Emperor chair was concluded on 28 May 1995, passenger services, as a replacement did the Emperor stop chair. The lying between the towns train station Rümikon - Mellikon was closed for passenger and replaced by stops Mellikon and Rümikon.

Engineering structures

The route traverses between the stations Embrach- Rorbas and Bülach with the 1800 meter long tunnel Dättenberg the same hills that Töss and Glatt valley separates the.

The track still holds to three major bridges. Two of them are between Embrach- Rorbas and Bülach, once the 93 -meter-long stream over a bridge at Embrach, which in 1950 was replaced by a new building, as well as the 125 meter-long Etterbühl Bridge in Bülach, which was established in 1971 only built and replaces multiple crossings. Between Eglisau and Zweidlen is the 118 meter Straight bridge, which was replaced by a new building in 1948.

Operation

The track is listed in the Swiss timetable under the field 761. You will now sail every hour of the S41 on the entire route. Additional intermediate Zurzach Koblenz and runs the S27, the S41 offers a half hour. Between Bülach and Eglisau nor the trains come to Schaffhausen to do so. These are IC trains to Stuttgart and fast trains between Zurich and Schaffhausen, keep but only in Bülach. Between Bülach and Eglisau still run the S5 and S22, which hold, in contrast to S41 in Glattfelden. Additionally wrong in the nights Fri / Sat and Sat / Sun, between Winterthur and Bülach each pair of trains still a night - train.

There are also some freight traffic on the route, which focuses not only on the transit section Bülach - Eglisau. It is represented in Rekingen in the former cement plant Holder Bank today a container terminal, the High Rhine - terminal. Thither run multiple container trains daily. There is also in Zweidlen a gravel mining area that is accessible by train. In addition there are some trains (mainly fuel and fuel trains to Glattbrugg ), the drive from Basel via Koblenz and then use this route in order to bypass the node Zurich.