Basel – Pratteln railway line

Basel – Pratteln
Timetable field :	50.014
Route length:	6.1 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	600 volts  =
Maximum slope :	50  ‰
Legend Basel tram network 2.06 St. Jacob Birs 2.46 0.03 Schänzli reversible loop 0.3   Hagnau 0.61 Freidorf 0.97 Käppeli 1.57 To the park, formerly an engineering school 1.92 Schützenstrasse formerly Schützenhausstrasse 2.43 Muttenz village formerly turning loop 3.11 Rothausstrasse 3.70 Wartenberg with a reversible loop 4.35 Lachmatt formerly Lachmatt wagon factory 5.00 Kästeli formerly a tire factory 5.52 Gempenstrasse formerly a freight yard 5.95 Bahnhofstrasse planned, 2020–2024 6.16 Pratteln Schlossstrasse with a turning loop SBB station planned for 2020–2024 Bözberg route and Hauenstein route Greetings planned, with a reversible loop, 2020-2024 A2 / A3 Zurlinden planned for 2020–2024 Steinhölzli planned, 2020–2024 Längipark planned for 2020–2024 Augst planned, with reversible loop, 2020–2024

The Basel – Pratteln railway line is a meter-gauge and electrified railway line in Switzerland . Today it has been expanded to consist of two tracks.

history

The 6.1 kilometer branch line was opened on January 22, 1921 (Basel St. Jakob – Muttenz Dorf) and October 20, 1922 (Muttenz Dorf – Pratteln) and connects to the Basel tram network at the St. Jakob station . The tram route to St. Jakob went into operation as early as 1916, and there - just before the city limits of Basel - there is also the infrastructure border between BVB and BLT. The branch line initially belonged to the independent company Basellandschaftliche Ueberlandbahn (BUeB). Originally, the route was to lead to Liestal , the capital of the canton of Basel-Landschaft . However, this plan was abandoned in 1937. Parts of the route planned for the railway project, for example in Pratteler Gartenstrasse, have not yet been built on.

Since January 1, 1974, the successor company Baselland Transport AG (BLT) has been responsible for the route infrastructure. The Basler Strassenbahnen (BStB) were responsible for the operation from the beginning , which have been called Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB) since 1946 and operate the route on a contract basis. The route to Pratteln is now used by line 14. In the past, courses that did not cover the entire route were designated with the numbers 12 (to Muttenz) and 22 (to Schänzli). In the course of the introduction of the conductorless operation, there was no more time to change the signs and the line names 12 and 22 disappeared.

It is planned to lead the route through the industrial area of ​​Grüssen to the eastern edge of the Schweizerhalle , further into the Salina Raurica development area to the Längi district and finally to Augst . Construction work is scheduled to begin in 2020 and be completed in 2024.

literature

• Claude Jeanmaire: The development of the Basel trams and overland railways 1840–1969 , Verlag für Eisenbahn und Straßenbahn, Basel 1969
• Claude Jeanmaire: Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB). A photo book on the modernization of the Basel tram from 1945 to 1982 , Verlag für Eisenbahn und Straßenbahn, Basel 1984. ISBN 3-85649-045-0
• Hansrudolf Schwabe, Rudolf Werder, Werner Heuberger, Paul Messmer, Rudolf Pleuler, Christian Siposs: BTB + BEB + TBA + BUeB = BLT, Baselland Transport AG, 100 years of regional public transport in Northern Switzerland , Pharos-Verlag, Basel 1987, ISBN 3- 7230-0222-6
• Hans G. Wägli: Swiss rail network and Swiss rail profile CH + , in a slipcase. AS Verlag , Zurich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-909111-74-9

Web links

• Description of the St. Jakob – Muttenz section on www.g-st.ch
• Description of the Muttenz – Pratteln section on www.g-st.ch

Individual evidence

1. ^ Submission to the district administrator. (PDF) District Administrator of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft, accessed on March 19, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Route: Hardstrasse - Zeughaus - St. Jakob (1916) on www.g-st.ch
3. ↑ Extension of tram line 14, project status. Civil engineering department of the canton of Basel-Landschaft, accessed on April 16, 2015 .