Allaman – Aubonne – Gimel railway

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Allaman-Aubonne-Gimel
Aubonne station shortly after the opening of operations
Aubonne station shortly after the opening of operations
Allaman – Aubonne – Gimel railway line
Route length: 9.9 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system : 600 V  =
Maximum slope : 60 
Minimum radius : 45 m
Top speed: 30 km / h
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0.0 Allaman (freight transport) at the SBB goods shed
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Allaman SBB Lausanne – Geneva
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Allaman (passenger transport) 736 m above sea level M.
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Branch to the SBB passenger station
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1.3 Evasion
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2.4 Aubonne
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4.4 Montherod - Signal de Bougy
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7.9 La Fouly
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9.4 Le Prunier Saubraz
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9.9 Gimel AAG
Operator: Société électrique Aubonne
Opening: Allaman - Aubonne : July 23, 1896
Aubonne- Gimel : August 27, 1898
Shutdown: Aubonne - Gimel : May 13, 1950
Allaman - Aubonne : May 17, 1952

The Chemin de fer Allaman-Aubonne-Gimel , German Allaman-Aubonne-Gimel-Bahn , abbreviated AAG , was an electric overland tram on the north-west bank of Lake Geneva in the Swiss canton of Vaud .

history

When the main line of the Jura-Simplon Railway (JS) between Lausanne and Geneva was put into operation in 1858 , the villages at the foot of the Jura Mountains away from the shores of Lake Geneva also tried to open it up by rail. Numerous trams and local railways were built here.

The Société électrique Aubonne , which operated a hydroelectric power station that supplied 600 volts of direct current , opened an electric tram on July 25, 1896 from Allaman station on the main route to the little town of Aubonne, 2.4 kilometers away, which at the time had around 1,700 inhabitants. A depot with a workshop was set up there. Two years later, on August 27, 1898, a continuation followed from the Aubonne terminus to the outskirts of Gimel , a popular summer resort for Geneva residents. The 9.9 km long, meter-gauge route was mostly laid out on the country road. The railway was initially called Société électrique Aubonne (SEA), then Aubonne – Allaman (AA) and finally Allaman – Aubonne – Gimel (AAG).

Although a modest freight service was served, the earnings of the railway fell short of expectations, especially since Gimel was still connected to the main railway line at Rolle by a second railway from 1898 to 1938, which was operated by the Rolle-Gimel (RG) regional tram . With this tram there was no track connection in Gimel.

The Aubonne – Gimel tram line was switched to bus service on May 14, 1950, and the rest of the section came to an end on May 17, 1952. Since then, the entire line has been served by buses.

literature

  • Gustav Röhr, Hans Schweers and Henning Wall: Switzerland's narrow-gauge paradise . Volume 1, Aachen 1986, ISBN 3-921679-38-9
  • Michel Grandguillaume, Jean Paillard, Jean-Louis Rochaix and Gérald Hadorn: Les Tramways vaudois . BVA (Bureau vaudois d'adresses), Lausanne 1979, ISBN 2-88125-001-7

Web links

Commons : Chemin de fer Allaman – Aubonne – Gimel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. opac.admin.ch Swiss National Library, Helveticat, search term Michel Grandguillaume, accessed on May 23, 2013