Railway line Bern – Worb Dorf

Bern – Worb village
Train at what was then the final stop at Zytglogge in Bern, 2009
Timetable field :	295
Route length:	9.68 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	600 volts  =
Maximum slope :	45  ‰
Minimum radius :	50 m
Dual track :	Bern, Zytglogge – Bern, Egghölzli Muri near Bern – Gümligen, Melchenbühl
Legend Tram 9 from Guisanplatz Tram 6, 7, 8 and 9 from Bern train station -0.48 Bern, Zytglogge (since 1997) Kirchenfeldbrücke over the Aare -0.06 Bern, Helvetiaplatz (since 1997) 0.00 (Terminal until 1997) (1904–1988 Bern Kirchenfeld ) Bern, Luisenstrasse (only lines 7 and 8) Bern, Thunplatz (only lines 7 and 8) 1.14 Bern, Brunnadernstrasse (until 1988 Burgernziel) Tram 7 to the Ostring Bern, Universal Postal Union (line 8 only) 2.23 Bern, Egghölzli Tram 8 to Saali 3.18 Muri Krone (until 1985) 3.18 Muri near Bern 3.73 Gümligen, Seidenberg (since 1977) 4.26 Gümligen, Melchenbühl (Tram) (since 1925) 4.97 Gümligen , train station (tram) 5.41 Gümligen, Hofgut (since 1994) 5.85 Gümligen, Siloam (since 1956) 6.59 Scheyenholz (since 1981) 7.03 Rüfenacht 7.99 Langenloh (since 1905) from Worblaufen 9.68 Worb village

The Bern – Worb Dorf railway line , not to be confused with the Worb Dorf – Worblaufen railway line to the north , is a 9.86-kilometer, meter-gauge , electrified railway line in the Swiss canton of Bern , also known colloquially as Muritram , Murilinie or Ds Blaue Bähnli . It is located in the municipalities of Bern , Muri bei Bern and Worb .

The Bern Egghölzli – Worb Dorf line is owned by the Bern – Solothurn Regional Transport (RBS), but this only functions as a railway infrastructure company . The Bern Municipal Transport Authority (SVB) is the only railway company that operates. Their line  6 goes over to the network of the Bern tram , the city-side end point is the Fischermätteli.

For historical reasons, the section Bern Zytglogge – Bern Egghölzli is usually included in the route, but this section belongs to the SVB and is operated as a tram in every respect . The distance of the RBS from Egghölzli is railroad moderately equipped with block and two sections, one lane, but runs partially still in the road subgrade. The RBS line between Muri and Melchenbühl has been expanded to two tracks. On weekdays, a ten-minute treatment is to 20:30 clock available. The operating center is Worb Dorf, there is also a depot for the RBS tram cars and a turning loop for the SVB tram cars.

history

Share over 100 francs in the Bern-Muri-Gümligen-Worb railway from April 15, 1898

On December 23, 1896, the Federal Assembly granted the specially founded Bern-Muri-Gümligen-Worb-Bahn ( BMGWB ) the concession for the construction and operation of the railway line discussed here. The originally 9.7 kilometer long connection was finally opened on October 21, 1898. The Bern Tramway Company was initially commissioned to operate the steam train . The line to Worb was originally operationally independent, only when the tramway to Burgernziel went into operation on July 1, 1901, a link between tram and railroad was established . On April 1, 1904, the BMGWB finally took over the operation of the line itself, before the company was renamed the Bern-Worb-Bahn ( BWB ) on July 1, 1907 . On July 21, 1910, the railway was electrified.

With the opening of the Worb Dorf – Worblaufen railway line in 1913, which was operated by the Worblentalbahn (WT), the line discussed here was finally linked to another railway at the other end. From then on, the citizens of Worb had two connections to Bern, which created a certain competitive situation. After the BWB merged with the Worblentalbahn on January 1, 1927 , the new operating company was called Vereinigte Bern – Worb-Bahnen ( VBW ). The latter in turn merged with the Solothurn-Zollikofen-Bern-Bahn on January 1, 1984 , resulting in today's operating company RBS.

Former terminus Bern-Kirchenfeld (next to Helvetiaplatz), 1979

Line G train on the Kirchenfeldbrücke in Bern

The newly built Seidenberg stop was opened on May 22, 1977. At the same time, the extended double lane from Melchenbühl to almost in front of the Muri station was put into operation.

On December 28, 1987, the RBS switched the railway to operation with tram sets of the Tram 2000 type and at the same time reduced the contact wire voltage from 800 to 600 volts direct current . At that time it was also given a line name and the line color blue, analogous to the tram lines or the other RBS lines, which are now part of the Bern S-Bahn . The choice fell on the letter G for Gümligen, because the letter W was already occupied by the parallel second connection to Worb Dorf, which has been running under the name S7 since 2004. Short courses on line G to Gümligen operated from 1987 with a red line signal crossed out .

On April 18, 1997, the city-side terminal on Helvetiaplatz in the Kirchenfeld district, where there was also a station building that now houses a bar, was finally abandoned in favor of a connection over the Kirchenfeldbrücke to the Zytglogge . Line G had its own dead end there , so until December 2010 only two-way vehicles could be used.

In December 2010, the radial line G became the diameter line  6, the short trips to Gümligen and thus the line signals crossed out in red were omitted. At the same time, the RBS gave the passenger transport license to the SVB. In this context, a turning loop was created in Worb Dorf in 2005 so that the SVB's one-way trams can also be used on the route. For the same reason, a second platform had to be built at the Scheyenholz stop . In 2014, a second loop was added after the Siloah station in order to be able to turn the equipment trolleys prematurely during off-peak times.

As of December 15, 2013, the stop names from Bern to Siloah were adapted to the customs of tram lines, they now consist of the town name and the actual stop name separated by a comma, for example “Gümligen, Siloah”.

vehicles

Since the changeover to tram operation in 1987, nine eight-axle and three-part articulated trams of the Be 4/8 type have been used on the route . They carry the company numbers 81 to 89 and were constructed from the “Tram 2000” of the Zurich transport company . Since 2010 they have been converted into ten-axle Be 4/10 vehicles using additional low-floor center sections. In addition, Combinotrams of the 751 series (751–752 and 760–765) from Bernmobil, which have been equipped with the necessary equipment for traffic to Worb (train protection ZSI, locomotive whistle, RBS radio and new wheel profile), are used on a regular basis.

gallery

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  Articulated wagon type Be 4/8 in Gümligen

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  The Hofgut stop opened in 1994

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  Siloam stop

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  At the Worb Dorf terminus

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  Worb Dorf station as it is presented today with Combino 751

Web links

Commons : Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn tram  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the RBS
• Data on the route on www.webstein.ch, including press articles and pictures
• Club Ds Blaue Bähnli

literature

• Jürg Aeschlimann: Regional Transport Bern-Solothurn. Part 1: Lines G and W. Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 1998, ISBN 3-907579-07-0 .
• Jürg Aeschlimann: Worblentalbahn. Bern – Worb railway. 100/115 years of history, equipment and rolling stock. Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Krattigen 2013, ISBN 978-3-907579-56-5 .
• Claude Jeanmaire, René Stamm: The overland railways from Bern to Worb. Publishing house for railway and streetcar literature, Basel 1971, ISBN 3-85649-011-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway amateur . 07/1977, p. 403.
2. ↑ Official course book field 295 (PDF)
3. ↑ Jürg Aeschlimann: Worblentalbahn. Bern – Worb railway. 100/115 years of history, equipment and rolling stock. Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Krattigen 2013, ISBN 978-3-907579-56-5 , p. 51.