Appenzell Railways (2006)

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Appenzeller Bahnen AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN CH0026212446
founding July 1, 2006
retrospectively to January 1, 2006
Seat Herisau , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Ernst Boos, President
Thomas Baumgartner, Director
Number of employees 179
sales 41.9 million CHF (financial year 2012)
Branch Transport company
Website www.appenzellerbahnen.ch

The Appenzeller Bahnen (AB) are a Swiss railway company based in Herisau . It operates a network of railways in the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden , Appenzell Ausserrhoden and St. Gallen .

Route network

Route map of the Appenzell Railway

The Appenzeller Bahnen operate their routes in three different gauges:

The bus operation Teufen memory Speicherschwendi became the timetable change in 2016 to the Postautobetriebe given.

history

Historic locomotives of the predecessors of AB: from left to right BCe 4/4 and BCFm 2/4 of the Appenzeller Bahn (AB), BCFeh 4/4 of the St. Gallen – Gais – Appenzell Electric Railway (SGA) and CFe 3/3 of the Altstätten-Gais-Bahn (AG)

In 2006, the general assembly of the predecessor companies decided to merge the Appenzeller Bahnen with the Rorschach-Heiden-Bergbahn (RHB), the Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen (RhW) and the Trogenerbahn (TB) retrospectively to January 1, 2006. It became a Absorption merger chosen, in which the larger Appenzeller Bahnen AG took over the three other companies. Today's Appenzeller Bahnen AG is still the company founded in 1886 (entry in the commercial register July 26, 1886).

The Appenzeller Bahnen emerged from the following former companies, the history of these companies can be found in the corresponding articles:

The Appenzeller Bibliobahn was a specialty : between 1988 and 2008, a railway wagon that had been converted into a library ran on the rail network of the Appenzeller Bahnen, which also covered the annual shunting costs.

Ownership

ABt 121 low-floor control car on the main road in Teufen
A commuter train has on his way to Gonten just Appenzell leave
The "Walzer" trains ABe 4/12 have been running between Gossau and Wasserauen since 2018 .

The Appenzeller Bahnen are organized in the form of a private limited company in accordance with Article 620ff of the Code of Obligations. The share capital amounts to 15,600,000 Swiss francs and is completely divided into registered shares with a nominal value of one franc. Due to the development history and the associated mergers and acquisitions, the shares are now distributed as follows:

  • Swiss Confederation (39%)
  • Canton of St. Gallen (11%)
  • Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden (9%)
  • Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (4%)
  • City of St. Gallen (4%)
  • various municipalities and districts of the cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Appenzell Innerrhoden (16%)
  • Privately owned (5%)
  • owned by the stock corporation (1%)
  • shares of the predecessor companies not yet exchanged (11%)

Diameter line

The Appenzell – St. Gallen – Trogen was a key project of the Appenzeller Bahnen to connect the St. Gallen – Trogen and St. Gallen – Gais – Appenzell lines at the St. Gallen train station by 2018 . The most important and largest sub-project was the construction of the 725-meter-long Ruckhalde tunnel to remove the rack section between St. Gallen and Riethüsli . The diameter line enables the 15-minute cycle between St. Gallen and Teufen and improves connections to the intercity trains to and from Zurich . The world record curve in the Ruckhalde fell victim to the new building, where the world's narrowest gear curve had passed with a radius of only 30 meters and a gradient of 90 per thousand.

Rolling stock

The rolling stock is divided into

  1. the rolling stock of the meter gauge network , some with a gear
  2. the only railcar for the Rheineck – Walzenhausen route with a gauge of 1200 mm
  3. the standard-gauge rolling stock, partly with cogwheel, for the Rorschach – Heiden route

photos

  • Historic BCe 4/4 above Appenzell

  • Shuttle train above Altstätten SG

  • The only locomotive of the Appenzeller Bahnen between Waldstatt and Zürchersmühle

  • Parked railway service tractor Te 2/2 49 in Herisau

  • Typical shuttle train (ABt-B- BDe 4/4 ) near Urnäsch

  • Train crossing in Jakobsbad

  • ABe 8/12 “Tango” at the assembly point stop

  • ABe 4/12 “Waltz” between Jakobsbad and Gonten

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Commercial Register of the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden / CHE-105.928.358 , accessed on November 21, 2013
  2. ↑ Appenzeller Bahnen AG Annual Report 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 21, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.appenzellerbahnen.ch  
  3. ↑ people. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Schranil Steffen, Roland Steingruber: An energy concept for the Appenzeller Bahnen. In: Schweizer Eisenbahnrevue, 8–9 / 2017, p. 396
  5. ↑ Annual reports of the Appenzeller Bahnen. (No longer available online.) Appenzeller bahns, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 30, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.appenzellerbahnen.ch
  6. ↑ St. Gallen: advance of the Ruckhalde tunnel stalled. Schweizerische Bauzeitung , May 9, 2017, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ For the first time a train connects Ausserrhoden with Ausserrhoden , NZZ, October 5, 2018

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