Landquart train station
| Landquart | |
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 Landquart reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Touch station |
| Design | Through station |
| IBNR | 8509002 |
| opening | July 1, 1858 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Landquart GR |
| Canton | Grisons |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 760 978 / 203 995 |
| Height ( SO ) | 523 m |
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| List of train stations in Switzerland | |
The Landquart Train Station is a contact station in the Swiss canton of Grisons at the SBB -distance Sargans-Chur and the narrow-gauge tracks of the Rhaetian Railway to Davos and Chur (- Thusis ). It is located in the municipality of Landquart .
history
The station was put into operation on July 1, 1858, when the Chur – Rheineck line went into operation. He experienced a change of ownership during the construction of the line, because the Südostbahn , which had started to build the line, became the property of the United Swiss Railways (VSB) on May 1, 1858 . At that time the station was almost in an open field far outside the actual main settlement of the Igis community . There were only a few factories nearby that used the hydropower of the Landquart River .
Since 1859, with the opening of the Sargans-Rapperswil-Rüti (ZH) line, trains to Zurich were possible, although they had to take the detour through the Glatttal and take a hairpin in Rapperswil. In 1875 the links bank Zurichseebahn went into operation, making direct trains to Zurich possible.
The station became a transfer station in 1889 when the narrow-gauge railway Landquart – Davos AG (LD) was opened, which ran from Landquart to Davos . This line later became the Rhaetian Railway. Since it is a narrow-gauge railway, the goods had to be reloaded and transferred in Landquart. At the same time, a workshop was built here at the end of the LD, from which the main workshop of the Rhaetian Railway emerged. Chur has also been accessible by narrow lanes since 1896.
The station has belonged to the Swiss Federal Railways since 1902 .
On 30 October 1975, a joined sleeper train, with the SBB between Chur and Landquart braking test rides for the German Federal Railroad took (DB), a group consisting of tanker freight train together. The accident claimed a human life. Due to a misunderstanding, the entry signal for the test train was set to red, although the braking force was insufficient to stop. The only two-year-old Re 4/4 II 11282 locomotive of the test train burned out and had to be demolished.
With the opening of the Vereina tunnel by the RhB in 1999, the station became even more important. From then on, the fastest route from the Unterland to the Engadin was via Landquart and no longer via Chur. With the implementation of Bahn 2000 , the link between SBB and RhB was further improved.
The station developed into an important freight transshipment point, because this is where goods are reloaded between the RhB and SBB. A number of industrial companies also settled near this train station. From here, the SBB sidings are also served by Zizers, which together with the cement works and the transshipment hall for drinks (e.g. Valser water) ensure large tonnage.
Thanks to the train station, the Landquart district is now larger than the actual main town Igis of the municipality of the same name.
building
Initially, only a temporary station building was built. The plans for the temporary arrangement come from JJ Breitinger. The final station building could be moved into in 1867. This, too, was built according to designs by JJ Breitinger, which were approved by the management in September 1857. The construction management was carried out by the builder Hatz from Chur, who started construction in June 1867 and finished it in the same year. The large goods shed is located south of the station building. The sales office in the station building would be removed with the new building on the other side of the RhB tracks.
On the occasion of the station renovation for Bahn 2000, a new three-storey station building was built on the east side of the RhB tracks. At the same time, the station square was redesigned. The SBB ticket sales with travel agency, as well as kiosk and bistro are located on the ground floor. There are offices on the two upper floors.
To the east of the SBB tracks, right by the bridge over the Landquart, there are two former station keepers' houses. The large goods shed with its covered loading ramp attached to the south gives an idea of the importance of the station as a transshipment station between SBB and RhB.
location
The passenger station consists of two parts. To the west of the station building on the Rhine side are the platforms of the SBB, on the east side of the station building are the platforms of the RhB. In the east there is a settlement, in the west since 2009 outlet shopping centers and the motorway connection.
In the north the extension of the station is limited by the river Landquart . The parking lot, which is adjacent to the station building, is located on its banks. The large track field of the freight tracks, the transshipment facility and the siding of the RhB extend to the south.
Public system
Today's public facility of the SBB consists of a central platform and an outside platform. The outer platform is on the side of track 4 facing away from the station building, while the central platform opens up tracks 2 and 3. Track 1 is the through track and provision track for the freight trains.
The platforms are connected to the station building and directly to the RhB platforms via two underpasses. The old underpass at the station building leads to Bahnhofstrasse - i.e. under all the tracks - while the southern underpass, completed in 2005, only opens up the two central platforms of the RhB and SBB and the side platform of the SBB.
The RhB railway system also consists of a long central platform and a short side platform. The central platform opens up tracks 5 and 6. Here the RE trains to Chur and Klosters / Davos and through the Vereina tunnel into the Engadine will run. The Chur-Schiers regional trains stop at the short side platform that opens up platform 8. Track 7 in between serves as a through track for goods and service trains and is also required to develop the main workshop.
The SBB sales point is located in the station building.
Scheduled trains
All scheduled trains stop at the station. These are:
- SBB (trains run every hour)
- RhB (trains run every hour)
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Landquart – Davos Platz -
Disentis – Chur – Landquart – Klosters – Scuol-Tarasp
- S 1 Rhäzüns-Schiers
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every two hours through the Vereina tunnel to Samedan and St. Moritz (Engadin Star)
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In addition, especially in the winter season, additional trains run as scheduled trains or as extra trains and only run on certain days. Even these extra trains usually stop in Landquart.
In the 2008 season between December 15, 2007 and March 29, 2008 a TGV POS operated on Saturdays from Paris via Zurich to Chur and back. In the 2002 season between December 15, 2001 and April 13, 2002, an ICE 1 ran on Saturdays from Stuttgart via Zurich-Altstetten (hairpin) to Chur. The Chur-Paris night train was the last scheduled night train from Chur to be discontinued in December 2007.
Mention in the literature
The station was mentioned in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain . He also plays a role in Max Frisch's Stiller for several pages.
Web links
- Landquart train station map (PDF, 838 kB)
- Main workshop of the RhB at www.graubuendenkultur.ch .
Individual evidence
- ↑ L'accident de chemin de fer. (Le Temps - archives historiques) (No longer available online.) Journal de Genève, Genève, November 1, 1975, p. 7 , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved November 17, 2013 (French). 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.
- ^ Werner Stutz: Railway stations in Switzerland, from the beginnings to the First World War. Orell Füssli, Zurich et al. 1983, ISBN 3-280-01405-0 , pp. 112 and 167.
- ↑ Construction report of the second underpass with a plan of the public complex ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 583 kB)
