Zurich–Lucerne railway line

The Zurich - Lucerne train - station is a former railway company of Switzerland. Your standard-gauge railway lines located in the Swiss cantons of Zurich, and Lucerne train and today belong to the Swiss Federal Railways ( SBB).

History

Project Ostwestbahn

Bundesrat Jakob Stämpfli brought in 1857 the Swiss Ostwestbahn ( OWB ) to the roles that should be realized in the Central Plateau, a second railway line in direct competition with the Swiss Central Railway ( SCB). The Basel SCB had acquired concessions to route to Aarau, Luzern, Bern and Biel and controlled rail traffic in the Central Plateau. The OWB should enter into direct competition with the SCB as the Bern railway companies.

The OWB projected a railway from La Neuveville about Biel, Bern, Langnau im Emmental, Lucerne and train to Zurich and began construction without the financing of the route was secured. The OWB was able to open the route Frienisberg Biel on December 3, 1860 only, before they went bankrupt; the Canton of Bern, in April 1861 the Bernese State Railways ( BOD ), took over on June 1, 1861, the bankrupt OWB and finished until 1864 route started projects in the canton of Bern.

Execution Nordostbahn

The configuration and the concession of the route Zurich -Lucerne - train, however, took over the Swiss Northeastern Railway (NOB ) from the bankruptcy estate of the OWB. The Zurich NOB founded the subsidiary Zurich -Lucerne - train ( ZZL ) and started after minor revisions of the project with the construction of the line.

Basically conceived as a single route, the topography left -cost connection to train only via a branch line that was connected to the pugmill by a large wye. The three branches Altstetten route - train, Kollermühle - Gütsch and the connecting curve Knonau -Chambertin were taken together on 1 June 1864 by the ZZL in operation. The railway triangle allowed while the equivalent connection of relations Zurich - train, train to Lucerne and Lucerne - Zurich.

The Altstetter station was redesigned for the introduction of ZZL in the NOB - Zurich- Glattbrugg station to the wedge and creates a new station building, designed by Jakob Friedrich Wanner. The summit was also responsible for the design of the train station, which came to rest on today's federal court and had a track triangle for turning trains.

The ZZL route ended at the service station underground in Lucerne, where she opened SCB route Lucerne Emmen bridge ( Olten ) resulted, which had to be used to reach the also part of the SCB Lucerne Train Station in 1859. The Lucerne entrance changed already in August 1875 again when the track of the Bern -Luzern -Bahn (BLB ) of Langnau ago, was introduced to the new service station Fluhmühle and the entrance to the station through the 317 meter long tunnel Gibraltar was laid.

Connection Gotthard Bahn

On the already weak financial position of the Swiss private railways came in the 1870s an economic crisis, which brought the railway construction virtual standstill; but was built on the "Alpine train " after 1869, the contract was completed on the construction of the Gotthard Railway ( GB). With the access routes to bundled the forces SCB and NOB founded the Aargauische Southern Railway ( ASB), which reached the Rotkreuzer station on the ZZL on December 1, 1881 by Muri AG ago. On 1 June 1882, ASB also opened the routes Brugg- Hendschiken ( - Muri ) and Red Cross Immensee, the GB route Immensee - Arth -Goldau - Göschenen and thus the through traffic on the Gotthard.

The ASB allowed the SCB direct journeys via Olten and Aarau to Immensee to the provisional starting point of the Gotthard railway, selbiges was true for the NOB for direct journeys via Brugg; on the other hand, had ZZL of Zurich and train produces a change of direction in Rotkreuz be made while from Lucerne direct journeys towards Gotthard were possible. The construction of the Gotthard rail direct - access roads from Zurich and Lucerne was postponed while, especially the routes (Zurich ) Thalwil - train (NOB ), train - Arth -Goldau ( GB) and Lucerne - Immensee ( GB). Up to the opening of the ZZL should lose their legal independence.

Gotthard Railway feeder

On January 1, 1892, the ZZL was fully acquired by its parent company NOB. At the federal level, meanwhile, was negotiated further on the nationalization of private railways, the proposal to buy up the SCB took place in 1891, no hearing, but took the number of supporters of a state railway company in the councils steadily.

Already on November 1, 1896 changed the SCB Lucerne driveway again, in conjunction with the construction of the second Lucerne railway station; the track area of the station was rotated about 90 degrees to the south and the access by the two new tunnels Schönheim and Gütsch set, which could be lifted in the city all level crossings. The Gibraltar Tunnel was there again abandoned after only 21 years of use superfluous and as the third Swiss railway tunnel; to 1981 he was at the same time also the longest abandoned railway tunnel in Switzerland.

The Gotthard railway access roads were completed, finally all on June 1, 1897 exactly 15 years after the opening of the Gotthard Railway. The line Luzern- Immensee GB was here introduced as a parallel route to the SCB on its own track in the Lucerne Train Station.

With regard to the opening of the railway line Thalwil - Arth -Goldau by NOB and GB the Zug train station was moved and also replaced by a new building - the old station building was moved to Zurich Wollishofen. The second train station was created as a wedge railway station, the railway triangle was replaced with the so-called train loop. The Zug loop itself was founded in 1990, in connection with the introduction of the S -Bahn Zurich, shut down.

Trains on the route from Zurich ZZL drove across the loop from the north to the train station a; it was to drive the way towards Arth -Goldau, or the ZZL - distance further to Lucerne. For the latter possibility, a parallel track between Kollermühle and train was on December 18, 1897 put into operation that the ride on the ZZL route from Cham via Southern Railway - Station - loop - Northern track after Knonau (and vice versa) pretended, unless the Zuger station should be mitbedient.

During the year 1897 also the so-called buyback law was passed by the councils, against which the referendum was taken; the vote came the law, which should form the basis of the Swiss Federal Railways ( SBB), in 1898, where it was adopted by a two -thirds majority. The nationalization of NOB was formally on 1 January 1902 which also the route of the former ZZL transferred into the ownership of the SBB.

Railway Zurich - train

The route passes through historic Knonaueramt (now District Affoltern ) what you had as introduced colloquial name Knonauer route. Their importance as Gotthard feeder she has with the opening of the railway line Thalwil - Arth -Goldau 1897 lost to them. The direct trains Zurich -Lucerne now use the route via Thalwil, so this Streckenast an actual branch line without transit traffic. With the introduction of the S -Bahn Zurich, the track was a little aroused from their slumber and it had the consequence of increasing passenger flow made ​​some extensions.

Railway train to Lucerne

The distance between train and Lucerne has not been fully expanded to double track. In particular, the single-track along the Rotsee and the lane Friedtaltunnel and the subsequent lane Reusbrücke, is now regarded as a bottleneck that route. For the expansion of different variants are tested currently in connection with the expansion station Lucerne.

The section of train -Baar guardian angel was massively expanded in connection with the introduction of the S -Bahn train.