Basel – Dornach railway line

Basel – Dornach
At the end point Dornach
Timetable field :	505
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	600 volts  =
Maximum slope :	50  ‰
Legend Basel tram network -0.60 Tricorn Ruchfeld depot with reversible loop 0.00 Free warehouse formerly Ruchfeld Railway line to Aesch Jura Railway 0.82 New world 1.24 Birseckstrasse 1.50 Zollweiden formerly Dammstrasse 1.91 Hofmatt 2.18 Elektra Birseck 2.75 Münchenstein village with a turning loop 3.28 Brown Boveri 3.91 Baselstrasse 4.41 In the lee 4.84 Arlesheim village with a turning loop 5.50 Hirsland 5.74 Stollenrain Jura Railway 6.16 Dornach train station with reversible loop 6.30 Dornachbrugg with reversible loop

The Basel – Dornach railway , also known as the Birseckbahn , runs from Basel to Birseck and was previously operated by the Birseckbahn (BEB). Since January 1, 1974, the successor company Baselland Transport AG (BLT) has been responsible for the meter- gauge narrow - gauge railway .

history

In 1902 the Birseckbahn opened its line to Dornach , it was electrified from the start and was built and operated like a tram. The Dornach route connected to the existing Basel tram network at the Münchensteinerstrasse stop ; the route was built up to the canton border at Dreispitz by the Basel trams (BStB), today's Basler Verkehrsbetriebe (BVB). They also took over the management of the Dornach line until 1916, with trains running continuously from Aeschenplatz from the start. The short final section Dornach Bahnhof – Dornachbrugg was closed on November 3, 1969. When the BLT was founded in 1974, the Dornach Line was given the number 10. In 1986, this radial line was expanded to a diameter line, this was done by linking it to the Basel – Rodersdorf railway line, which is also part of the BLT . In 2010, the section from Arlesheim Stollenrain to Dornach Bahnhof was expanded to double lanes, which enabled line 10 to run every 7.5 minutes.

literature

• Claude Jeanmaire: The Development of the Basel Trams and Overland Railways 1840-1969 . Publishing house for railways and trams, 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
• Baselland Transport AG (BLT, ed.), René Salathé: Past and present of the Birseckbahn 1902–2002 , without publisher, Oberwil 2002
• Hans G. Wägli: Swiss rail network and Swiss rail profile CH + , in a slipcase. AS Verlag , Zurich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-909111-74-9