Albisgütlibahn
| Albisgütlibahn (GTC) | |||||||||||||
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 Former railcar of the Albisgütlibahn in Innsbruck (1977)
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| Route length: | 1.158 km | ||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||
| Power system : | 600 = | ||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 60 ‰ | ||||||||||||
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The Albisgütlibahn (AGB) was a tram company in Switzerland that operated in the urban area of Zurich . It was founded in 1907 and was one of eight predecessor companies of today's Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ). Erected on the occasion of the Federal Rifle Festival, the railway was unprofitable for almost its entire existence. Its infrastructure was integrated into the Zurich tram network in 1925 .
history
As early as 1894, the takeover of the tram company by the city of Zurich was decided in a referendum and carried out two years later, but private tram companies were also established after that. They opened up areas in which the Zurich urban tram (StStZ, today's VBZ) initially showed no interest in view of limited financial resources. As the last of these private companies, the Albisgütlibahn was founded in 1907. It goes back to the initiative of the organizers of the Swiss Federal Shooting Festival, which took place on the Albisgüetli shooting range . In order to bring the visitors to the festival area, they checked a bus service and the construction of a branch line of the Uetlibergbahn , but ultimately decided in favor of a tram. They hoped that after the festival it would encourage the development of the area.
On 29 June 1907, the GTC opened the 1.158 km long meter-gauge and 600 volts DC electrified line between the railway crossing the Sihltalbahn and Albisgüetli. The level crossing ⊙ was at the end of today's Bubenbergstrasse (near the Saalsporthalle stop ). The terminus at Albisgüetli was at what is now the Strassenverkehrsamt stop , and sidings were laid in Schweighofstrasse . The route ran through Giesshübelstrasse and Uetlibergstrasse. The StStZ contented itself with building a 262 meter long connecting line from the Utobrücke to the level crossing.
The AGB recorded 260,000 passengers during the shooting festival and 305,000 in the entire first year of operation. The hopes placed in the tram were not fulfilled in the following years. The AGB served almost exclusively the excursion traffic, in the winter of 1907/08 it was used by an average of 30 passengers daily. From 1908 the operation was limited to the summer months, from 1913 to the summer weekends, from 1915 to Sundays in summer. Only in the interwar period did residential construction pick up significantly, which made the route interesting for the StStZ. On July 1, 1925, the AGB became the property of the municipal company, and a year later the line to today's terminus Albisgüetli was extended.
vehicles
The Albisgütlibahn procured five two-axle motor vehicles (Ce 2/2 1–5) from the Schweizerische Wagonsfabrik Schlieren and the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon , but did not purchase trailers. The vehicles, which offered 18 seats and 24 standing places, were housed in the Möslistrasse depot of the StStZ. They were 8.2 meters long and 2.2 meters wide, their weight was 12.8 tons. In 1912 and 1913 two cars were leased to the Meiringen – Aare Gorge tram . In 1925 the StStZ took over all five cars and modernized them in the 1930s (new drive switches and motors, larger wheelbase). In 1954 she sold four cars (No. 1, 3–5) to the Innsbruck tram . There one of the vehicles was converted into a grinding car in 1971 , while two more were handed over to the Carinthian Museum Railways ( Gurktalbahn ) in 1977 . The remaining railcar has been owned by the Tiroler Museumsbahnen since 1988 (see also Innsbruck tram vehicles ). The grinding trolley was in use until 2007 (most recently on the Stubaitalbahn ) and is now in Ferlach in the Historama of the nostalgic railways in Carinthia .
The fifth AGB car (No. 2) went to the Bex-Villars-Bretaye-Bahn in 1953 for passenger transport on the flat sections of the Bex – Bévieux and Gryon – Chesières lines. It served as a company car from the 1970s and then stood still for a few years until the Tram Museum Zurich brought it back to its old home in 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Rudolf Galliker: Tramstadt - local public transport and urban development using the example of Zurich . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-905312-02-6 , p. 101 .
- ↑ Galliker: Tram city. Pp. 108-109.
- ↑ a b The Albisgütlibahn (AGB), 1907–1925. Tram Museum Zurich, October 11, 2003, archived from the original on September 1, 2011 ; accessed on May 9, 2014 .
- ↑ a b The Zurich urban tram (StStZ), since 1896. Zurich Tram Museum, September 28, 2003, archived from the original on September 1, 2011 ; accessed on May 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Galliker: Tram city. P. 109.
- ↑ Railcar series 18 - 21 (IVB). Tyrolean Museum Railways, 2008, accessed on May 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Back in Zurich after more than 50 years. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 8, 2006, accessed on May 9, 2014 .