Chur train station

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Chur train station
West entrance with post bus station. Left RhB, right SBB
West entrance with post bus station. Left RhB, right SBB
Data
Location in the network Connecting station
Platform tracks 12
abbreviation CH
IBNR 8509000
opening July 1, 1858
Website URL SBB
location
Place / district Chur
Canton Grisons
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 759 421  /  191303 coordinates: 46 ° 51 '13 "  N , 9 ° 31' 45"  O ; CH1903:  759421  /  191303
Height ( SO ) 584  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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The Chur train station is a train station in the Swiss city ​​of Chur . The station, which opened in 1858, is the most important railway junction in Graubünden due to the transition from the standard-gauge SBB to the narrow-gauge Rhaetian Railway .

History and Development

1850 to 1895

The planning for the Chur train station began around 1850. After hard discussions, the train station was built outside the city at its current location. The opening followed on June 30, 1858. At that time, the station was the terminus of the Rorschach-Chur line. The track system for a through station shows that a continuation towards Lukmanier was planned. The operator of the station was then the United Swiss Railways . For the time being, only a temporary wooden goods shed was erected as a reception building for the station. But the reception building, which can still be seen today, was built in 1860. However, it was moved to a new location on Gürtelstrasse in 1876, where it is still located today. Because of the steadily increasing tourism, they wanted a new reception building, which was completed on November 1st, 1878. This building still exists today, but has had to endure several renovations over the years.

1896 to 1985

Chur station in 1903 with a view of the Weisshorn
Locomotive parade at the reopening of Chur train station (May 25, 2008): Ge 6/6 II, Ge 4/4 I, Ge 6/6 I, G 3/4 "Rhaetia", Ge 2/4.
Entrance to Chur train station
Chur station with a record-breaking TGV

In 1896, the narrow-gauge Landquart – Thusis line of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) was opened. Due to a Federal Council decision, the RhB was forced to forego its own train station and instead to integrate itself into the station of the United Swiss Railways. In 1903 the Albulaline was opened, which required a further expansion of the station. In 1914 the station had to cope with the additional traffic of the newly opened Chur-Arosa Line . Due to the increased traffic, the station was completely rebuilt in 1926–1928. In the course of this renovation, the number of tracks was increased, new bridges were built and the layout of the tracks was simplified. The buildings from earlier times have been renovated and new buildings have been erected.

1985 until today

Today the train station is in the middle of Chur and forms the transition between the old and the new town. The most noticeable building of the station is the roof with the Postautobahnhof, completed in 1993. In 1986 the architects Richard Brosi and Robert Obrist won first prize in a competition for the design of the station. The idea was to create an airy station concourse. The hall was built by the company Tuchschmid AG from Frauenfeld , which was awarded the European Steel Construction Prize in 1993.

In 1988, the Chur voters approved the project of an underground station for the Arosa Railway and a nearly three-kilometer-long Mittenberg tunnel between Chur and Sassal station with a large majority. As a result of the later cancellation of initially promised federal contributions, the project that should have been implemented in the course of the planned conversion of the Arosa Railway to 11 kV alternating current had to be abandoned a few years later. The new station facility would have been designed to have three tracks and a direct connection to the main RhB network , with the third track - a little off the beaten track - serving in particular to handle baggage and goods at peak times.

The most extensive renovation of the station began in 2000. The complete redesign of the station is a joint project of SBB, RhB and the city of Chur. The new station underpass opened in 2003 and was extended to the south by 2006. The platforms were raised to the Swiss standard height of 55 cm and the roofs were renewed. A new shopping arcade was opened in the south to connect with the new pedestrian underpass. The old station building, known as the Belle Époque, was extensively renovated and completed in 2007. A new business and shopping building is located between the tracks of the SBB and the tracks of the RhB line Chur-Arosa, which were relocated from the center of the station square directly to the converted station building. In the station, tracks 5 to 8 are standard gauge (SBB), 9-14 are meter gauge tracks of the RhB. Both railways run independently next to each other from Landquart to Chur, there are no three-rail tracks in the platform area. One of the two main line tracks from Chur to Domat / Ems has three tracks, but the standard gauge is only used for freight traffic.

The new terminal of the Chur city bus has also been moved closer to the train station and now has a direct connection to the underground shopping mall. The station square was also extensively redesigned and completed in 2008.

business

railroad

SBB

RhB

Bus transport

  • The Chur city bus has its terminal near the train station and serves this station with all lines.
  • From the bus station under the glass roof above the platforms, numerous post bus lines lead to the surrounding regions

See also

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Chur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Train station reception building
  2. ↑ Tuchschmid AG
  3. ↑ Hans Hofmann: Chur – Arosa, from the construction and operation of the railway , second edition, Calanda Verlag H. Hofmann, Chur 1989/93, ISBN 3-905260-11-5 , p. 97 f.
  4. ↑ Ueli Haldimann , Tibert Keller, Georg Jäger : Experience Chur-Arosa-Bahn - Foray through the Schanfigg , AS Verlag & Buchkonzept AG, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-906055-25-1 , p. 108 f.
  5. ↑ http://www.buschur.ch/index.php