Sea line (railway line)

Schaffhausen – Rorschach
Two GTW 2/6 from Thurbo on the Rhine bridge Feuerthalen near Schaffhausen, in the background the Munot
Route number (DB) :	4000 Constance limit i. R. Kreuzlingen 4322 Constance border i. R. Romanshorn
Timetable field :	820 (Schaffhausen – Romanshorn) 830 (Konstanz – Kreuzlingen – Weinfelden) 845 (Romanshorn – Rorschach)
Route length:	82.4 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	12  ‰
Dual track :	Rorschach Harbor – Rorschach
Legend DB from Basel SBB from Winterthur 48.76 Schaffhausen end point S 8 404 m above sea level M. DB Hochrheinbahn to Constance Emmersberg Tunnel (761 m) 47.21 Rhine bridge Feuerthalen (262 m), canton border Schaffhausen / Zurich 46.93 Feuerthalen 409 m above sea level M. 45.33 Langwiesen 409 m above sea level M. 44.77 Canton border Zurich / Thurgau 404 m above sea level M. 43.28 Schlatt 404 m above sea level M. 39.75 St. Katharinental (since 2002) 413 m above sea level M. Geisslibach Bridge (94 m) 38.18 Diessenhofen 413 m above sea level M. 35.57 Snares 427 m above sea level M. SBB from Winterthur S 29 31.81 Etzwilen 438 m above sea level M. VERY like singing 34.55 Cantonal border Thurgau / Schaffhausen 34.86 Stein am Rhein end point S 29 413 m above sea level M. 35.40 Canton border Schaffhausen / Thurgau 36.93 Eschenz 417 m above sea level M. 39.84 Mammers 412 m above sea level M. 45.59 Steckborn 404 m above sea level M. 48.91 Berlingen 403 m above sea level M. 51.33 Mannenbach-Salenstein 399 m above sea level M. 54.01 Ermatingen 402 m above sea level M. 56.00 Triboltingen (since 1998) 403 m above sea level M. 57.86 Tägerwilen - Gottlieben (until 1996 Tägerwilen SBB ) 404 m above sea level M. Thurbo from Wil S 14 59.15 Day moss 402 m above sea level M. MThB von Wil (1911-2001) 60.69 Kreuzlingen 403 m above sea level M. 61.43 414.76 Border Switzerland / Germany , border SBB / DB 399 m above sea level M. DB Hochrheinbahn from Basel 414.34 Constance end point S 14 398 m above sea level NN 414.74 100.88 State border Germany / Switzerland , border DB / SBB 61.80 100.17 Kreuzlingen harbor 402 m above sea level M. 98.83 Kurzrickenbach Seepark (since 1998) 405 m above sea level M. 97.50 Bottighofen (1946–1998) 405 m above sea level M. 97.98 Bottighofen (since 1998) 405 m above sea level M. 96.17 Münsterlingen - Scherzingen 405 m above sea level M. 95.40 Münsterlingen Hospital (since 1998) 405 m above sea level M. 94.56 Landschlacht (since 2002) 408 m above sea level M. 92.92 Altnau 409 m above sea level M. 90.49 Güttingen 410 m above sea level M. 88.09 Kesswil 405 m above sea level M. 86.11 Uttwil 406 m above sea level M. 82.15 Romanshorn change of direction S 7 399 m above sea level M. SBB from Winterthur S 7 80.97 Romanshorn West 404 m above sea level M. 81.78 83.32 Romanshorn south 399 m above sea level M. SOB to St. Gallen S 8 84.72 Egnach 401 m above sea level M. 88.75 Arbon Seemoosriet (since 2007) 400 m above sea level M. 90.29 Arbon 399 m above sea level M. 90.80 Canton border Thurgau / St. Gallen 91.64 Steinach (since 2007) 402 m above sea level M. 92.19 Canton border St. Gallen / Thurgau 93.47 horn 403 m above sea level M. 94.40 Canton border Thurgau / St. Gallen 96.32 Rorschach Hafen end point S 25 398 m above sea level M. SBB from St. Gallen 97.27 Rorschach end point S 7 399 m above sea level M. AB to Heiden S 25 to Chur

Lake line is the name of the standard-gauge railway line that leads from Schaffhausen via Stein am Rhein , Kreuzlingen / Konstanz and Romanshorn to Rorschach . It belongs to the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and is largely located in the canton of Thurgau . It forms the Swiss section of the railway ring around Lake Constance .

history

19th century

Today's lake line Schaffhausen – Rorschach was built between 1869 and 1895 in four sections:

Romanshorn – Rorschach

Rorschach Hafen railway station. The tracks of the VSB and the NOB were next to each other between the port and city stations.

The section Romanshorn – Rorschach Hafen was opened on October 15, 1869 as an extension of the Thurtal line by the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB). In Rorschach Hafen, it joined the Rorschach Hafen – Rorschach – St. Line opened on December 25, 1856 . Gallen to the United Swiss Railways (VSB), which had a hairpin at Rorschach station . The NOB laid its own parallel track between Rorschach Hafen and Rorschach next to the VSB track. This led the NOB line to Rorschach train station. The line closed the gap between Romanshorn train station and the Rorschach – St. Margreten – Chur of the VSB and formed the competing connection to the VSB route Winterthur – St. Gallen –Rorschach .

The Romanshorn connecting curve was opened on December 1, 1893. It enables trains coming from Winterthur to travel to Rorschach without a hairpin.

Constance – Kreuzlingen Hafen – Romanshorn

Thurbo GTW 2/6 and construction service vehicles of the SBB in Altnau

As early as 1863, Konstanz was opened up by the Upper Rhine Railway of the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways . Eduard Häberlin tried to prevent the construction of the Kreuzlingen – Romanshorn section on the NOB's administrative board in order to protect its Thurtal line and the western access routes from competition with the Baden Hochrheinbahn. The «Seethalbahn» committee chaired by Gottlieb Labhardt prevailed and on July 1, 1871, the Swiss Northeastern Railway (NOB) closed the gap to the Thurtallinie by connecting Romanshorn station with Constance via Kreuzlingen Hafen .

The route kilometers still indicate the railway company that built the section. The NOB kilometers of the Romanshorn – Rorschach and Romanshorn – state border (–Konstanz) sections have their starting point at Zurich main station .

Etzwilen – Kreuzlingen – Konstanz railway line

After Romanshorn – St. Gallen private railway NPZ operated by BT (left) and three-part MThB shuttle train in 1990 in Constance

The section along the Untersee was opened by the Swiss National Railroad (SNB) on July 17, 1875 as part of the Winterthur – Etzwilen –Singen / Kreuzlingen – Konstanz / Kreuzlingen Hafen railway. The railway company wanted to build a connection from Lake Constance and Singen to Lake Geneva in order to break the monopoly of the existing railway companies, including the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB). The route leads through a low-traffic area and for various reasons did not make a profit. The national railway went bankrupt in 1878 and was then taken over by the NOB.

The kilometrage of this section built by the national railway has its zero point in Winterthur station .

Schaffhausen – Etzwilen

Railway bridge over the Rhine of Schaffhausen (left) to Feuerthalen with a three-part GTW 2/8 of Thurbo

Since 1875 the small town of Stein am Rhein in Schaffhausen was connected with Winterthur, Singen and Constance, but not with the canton capital. That changed in the 1890s. On November 1, 1894, the Nordostbahn opened the Feuerthalen – Etzwilen section. The construction work of the Emmersberg tunnel was delayed due to water ingress and a daybreak . The remainder of the Schaffhausen – Feuerthalen line was opened on April 2, 1895 after the Emmersberg tunnel and the Feuerthalen Rhine bridge had been completed , making the railway line known today as the lake line in operation.

The Nordostbahn connected the kilometering of this section to the Winterthur – Etzwilen national railway that it took over in 1878 and started in Winterthur.

Swiss Federal Railways

In the 1980s, obsolete rolling stock shaped the SBB's lake line. Ae 4/7 with light steel car in Romanshorn.

A Re 4/4 I with a standard car I and a light steel car is waiting in Stein am Rhein to continue towards Kreuzlingen

With the nationalization of the Swiss Northeast Railways and the other Swiss main railways, the lake line came to the newly founded SBB in 1902 . When the SBB administration was reorganized in 1923, the lake line was assigned to SBB District III.

When the Mittelthurgau Railway opened in 1911, the Tägerwilen station was renamed Tägerwilen SBB. After the takeover of the lake line by the Mittelthurgau Railway, the station was given the current name Tägerwilen- Gottlieben . The two Kreuzlingen train stations were renamed on the occasion of the incorporation of Emmishofen in 1928. Emmishofen station became Kreuzlingen station and Kreuzlingen station became Kreuzlingen Hafen station.

In 1928 the Winterthur – Romanshorn – Rorschach line including the connecting line in Romanshorn was electrified with 15 kV 16 ⅔ Hz . For the rest of the lake line, which is operated as a branch line, electrification was not initially necessary. It took place in the 1940s, after the Second World War. The Gleisdreieck to Constance as the last SBB line came under the contact wire in the 1960s. The conversion of of the trains of the Mittelthurgaubahn traffic (MThB) section Kreuzlingen-Konstanz had time, but drove the MThB to 1965 with steam and diesel traction .

Start of electrical operation on the individual sections:

• Schaffhausen – Etzwilen on December 16, 1945
• (Winterthur–) Etzwilen – Stein am Rhein on October 7, 1946
• Stein am Rhein – Kreuzlingen on October 5, 1947
• Kreuzlingen – Konstanz on May 27, 1962
• Constance – Kreuzlingen harbor on June 1st, 1969
• Kreuzlingen – Kreuzlingen Hafen – Romanshorn on May 6, 1946
• (Winterthur–) Romanshorn – Rorschach on May 15, 1928

In May 1982, the SBB introduced the regular timetable, as on the rest of the network, between Schaffhausen and Rorschach.

In the 1990s, the SBB dismantled the infrastructure. The crossing track in Altnau was removed, the station building in Mammern was sold and in Mannenbach-Salenstein the station had to be closed due to the risk of collapse. With the 1994 summer timetable, the trains run by Re 4/4 I and Ae 4/7 were replaced by shuttle trains with modernized RBe 540 multiple units. However, this tentative improvement could hardly hide the fact that the SBB neglected the lake line and were also considering switching to bus operations. The government of the canton Thurgau reached with the support of the Federal Office of Transport that the concession Schaffhausen-Romanshorn to operate the route advertised was. The tender was a pilot project and the first of its kind in Switzerland.

Takeover by the Mittelthurgau Railway

The control car Bt enabled the formation of three-car trains. Because of the slight gradient of the lake line, the low output of the first generation GTW was sufficient to transport the control car.

Articulated multiple units (GTW) RABe 526 686 procured by MThB to rationalize the lake line in use at the successor company Thurbo . The trains of the first generation can be recognized by their angular fronts

In 1996 the Schaffhausen – Romanshorn line was taken over by the Mittelthurgau Railway (MThB), which signed a ten-year lease with the SBB . During the contract period, MThB was not only responsible for driving operations, but also for maintaining the route. The Romanshorn – Rorschach section continued to be operated by SBB during this time.

MThB concept

After taking over the route, MThB began implementing its concept, which should offer passengers more and more attractive services. The MThB concept comprised the following cornerstones:

• Lean connections to the express train network lead to shorter travel times and more connections
• Stopping at the demand-oriented points required the construction of new stops
• Stopping on request leads to savings in travel time in order to compensate for the operation of the additional stops
• Special tourist trains such as the Orient Express and the expansion of freight traffic via the Konstanz border crossing should generate additional income
• Operations are streamlined thanks to investments in new remote-controlled signal boxes and new rolling stock

Operation by the MThB

Vessel sizes of the articulated multiple units (GTW) RABe 526

vehicles	dare	Seats			standing places	Total
		1st Class	2nd Class	Folding seats
RABe 526	2	12	90	16	82	200
RABe + Bt	3	12	194	32	167	360
RABe + RABe	4th	24	180	32	164	400
RABe + RABe + RABe	6th	36	270	48	246	600

The MThB modernized the leased path fundamentally by replacing signal boxes, all barriers automated train radio and public address systems instituted that Perrone increased and new ticket machines anschaffte and new rolling stock. The new articulated multiple units from the Thurgau company Stadler Rail are much cheaper to purchase, operate and maintain than previous vehicles. From the timetable change in 1998, MThB implemented most of its service concept, opened new stops with Kurzrickenbach Seepark, Triboltingen and Münsterlingen Spital and increased the number of passenger services offered by 67%. The Bottighofen stop , which was commissioned by SBB in 1946 , was moved closer to the village in 1998. The half-hourly service was introduced on most sections of the route.

Lake line: transport services

year	Transported people	Ton kilometers
1997	1,357,630	6,583,734
1998	2,403,582	13,028,727
1999	2,578,821	19,628,303

When the new service concept was introduced, MThB was initially unable to keep to the timetable. Delays and disconnections were the result. Reasons were the late delivery of the new articulated railcars, speed restrictions because of the unfinished construction and the lack of crossing track in Altnau where because of the newly introduced half-hour clock , a clock crossing is necessary. The crossing track dismantled by SBB in 1993 was put back into operation by MThB on September 25, 1998. The intersection is operated in left-hand traffic and is technically equipped and secured so that simultaneous entry from both directions is permitted.

Even in the 21st century, MThB implemented its strategy for better development of the settlements. In 2002 the St. Katharinental and Landschlacht stops were opened to traffic.

MThB bankruptcy

Extensive rationalization investments in systems and vehicles helped the Mittelthurgau Railway to save costs, which were used to improve the offer. With the consolidation of the timetable, new rolling stock and additional stops, MThB succeeded in increasing the attractiveness of public transport. The overall successful concept also had an impact on other rail companies in Switzerland.

However, the modernization of the lake line cost MThB 70 to 80 million francs. The debts of 153 million Swiss francs led MThB to liquidity problems and at the end of 2002 to bankruptcy . For the collapse of the Mittelthurgau Railway, other reasons such as a lack of delimitation in accounting , management errors and unclear regulations with the Federal Office of Transport on compensation were also jointly responsible.

Operated by Thurbo

S 14 before departure to Konstanz at Kreuzlingen station

RABe 526 680 in the colors of Thurbo, procured by MThB

When the Mittelthurgau Railway went into liquidation due to financial problems at the end of 2002, passenger traffic on the lake line was taken over by the SBB subsidiary Thurbo , which was originally intended as an alliance between SBB and the Mittelthurgau Railway. Thurbo also took over a large part of the rolling stock from MThB. SBB and Turbo are now applying important findings from the sea line test to their own regional traffic. In December 2007 the Arbon Seemoosriet and Steinach stops were inaugurated.

Since the 2015 timetable change, five RegioExpress train pairs have been running daily between St. Gallen and Konstanz. The originally planned two-hour service had to be postponed to the 2018 timetable change due to a lack of finances.

In 2017/2018, SBB built a 1.4-kilometer crossing track between St. Katharinental and Schlatt for 21 million francs . By relocating the crossing point from Diessenhofen train station to the double-lane island near St. Katharinental, the timetable of the lake line between Rorschach and Schaffhausen can be changed so that the connection to Zurich in Schaffhausen is better and the travel time from Diessenhofen to Zurich is reduced by around 15 minutes.

route

Train of the former S 3 at Steckborn consisting of two GTW 2/6

The lake line can be used freely by vehicles of route class D4 and double-decker cars with the EBV O2 boundary profile . Between Konstanz and Rorschach, in addition to SBB pantographs with 1450 millimeters wide headers, the pantographs commonly used by DB and ÖBB with 1950 millimeter headers are permitted if they have insulated end horns.

Route description

The 82.4 kilometer long single-track lake line leads from Schaffhausen along the Rhine and Lake Constance to Rorschach. Its two striking engineering structures are located shortly after the starting point of the route, the Schaffhausen train station . The 761 meter long Emmersberg tunnel leads under the city quarter of the same name and the 262 meter long Rhine bridge then crosses the Upper Rhine with the canton border Schaffhausen - Zurich on the left bank of the Rhine. From Feuerthalen , the lake line follows the Rhine upstream to Langwiesen . There it arrives in the canton of Thurgau and leads directly to the town of Diessenhofen .

Mannenbach-Salenstein reception building . In the technical literature is believed that it as a model for the unit train station in Württemberg has served

Platform in Rorschach Hafen with S 7 and Kornhaus

The route now leads via the Schlattingen stop, located south of the Rodenberg, to Etzwilen , where it meets the route of the former "Nationalbahn" from Winterthur . The railway line to Singen is now operated as a museum railway by the Etzwilen – Singen (SEHR) museum railway to Rielasingen . The section of Etzwilen to Stein am Rhein is from from Winterthur coming Thurbo trains on the S-Bahn Zurich shared. In the Stein am Rhein train station on the left bank of the Rhine, the lake line again briefly runs through Schaffhausen canton area; the historic town is on the other side of the Rhine.

The Seeline has then reached the Untersee in Eschenz , the southern bank of which it follows via Steckborn , Mannenbach-Salenstein and Ermatingen to the Tägerwilen- Gottlieben station . At Mannenbach-Salenstein, travelers can take a look at the island of Reichenau in the Untersee or at the Arenenberg Castle on the Seerücken , where the future French Emperor Napoleon III. stopped. Shortly after Tägerwilen, the lake line meets the double-lane section of the former Mittelthurgau Railway from Weinfelden at the Tägermoos service station , from where both lines reach Kreuzlingen station .

The lake line forms a track triangle between Kreuzlingen, the Konstanz train station in Germany and Kreuzlingen Hafen . In Kreuzlingen Hafen the railway line has reached the Obersee , along the banks of which it follows via Münsterlingen - Scherzingen , Altnau , Uttwil to Romanshorn . In the Romanshorn train station with its extensive track and port facilities, the track branches off onto the main line to Winterthur and the continuation of the lake line to Rorschach. The connecting line, which allows freight trains from Winterthur to travel directly to Rorschach, forms a track triangle with the lake line. The locomotive depot is located within the triangle . The lake line runs past the Romanshorn marshalling yard, which was closed in 1997. Just before the station Egnach the branches leading to St. Gallen route of Südostbahn right. The lake line continues along Lake Constance to the industrial town of Arbon . In Steinach , she reaches the canton of St. Gallen , passes through the Thurgau exclave Horn , to her destination in st. Gallic Rorschach, where they join the St. Gallen – Rorschach –St. Margrethen – Chur meets. The short section between the Rorschach Hafen and Rorschach stations is two-lane for historical reasons. Trains of the Rorschach-Heiden-Bergbahn (RHB) also run on the 900 meter long section between the two Rorschach train stations . The RHB merged with the Appenzeller Bahnen (AB) in 2006 and has since been the only standard gauge line in the AB network.

business

present

The lake line is used by many freight trains. S 8 and tank car train with Re 6/6 in Kreuzlingen

The gear railcar BDeh 3/6 of AB waits in Rorschach port as S 25 on the passengers to Heiden

The lake line is operated by Thurbo with the S 8 (Schaffhausen – Romanshorn– St. Gallen ) and the S 7 (Weinfelden – Romanshorn – Rorschach) of the St. Gallen S-Bahn every half hour. The S 8 runs every hour from St. Gallen to Nesslau-Neu St. Johann . The offer is supplemented by the RegioExpress St. Gallen – Romanshorn – Kreuzlingen Hafen – Konstanz and the S 25 (Rorschach Hafen – Rorschach– Heiden ) as well as on the Stein am Rhein – Etzwilen section from the S 29 of the Zurich S-Bahn to Winterthur .

On the Konstanz – Kreuzlingen section, an InterRegio Konstanz – Weinfelden - Lucerne runs every hour and the S 14 (Konstanz – Weinfelden) every half hour.

Thurbo uses Stadler articulated multiple units of the newer generation for the S-Bahn and RegioExpress trains . In the S 25 of the gear railcar operates BDeh 3/6 of Appenzeller webs . The lake line is integrated into the Ostwind tariff association .

The route between Romanshorn and Rorschach is also busy with goods traffic, which continues into the St. Gallen Rhine Valley . The freight trains mostly coming from the Limmattal marshalling yard do not use the steep route via St. Gallen , but the flat Thurtallinie . Since 2004, freight traffic has increased on the Konstanz – Romanshorn – Rorschach section. DB Cargo runs the freight trains from Stuttgart Kornwestheim over the electrified lake line to the Wolfurt marshalling yard in order to avoid the use of diesel locomotives on the Friedrichshafen – Lindau railway line and the Württemberg Southern Railway . The residents of the lake line complain about the noise of these transit freight trains and the tank car trains for the transport of mineral oil to the tank farms in Eastern Switzerland.

history

The Kreuzlingen – Konstanz section was served by the Mittelthurgau Railway, which has been using two-part shuttle trains with EAV railcars since it was electrified .

Since the opening of the Mittelthurgau Railway (MThB), the Kreuzlingen – Konstanz section has primarily been used by the MThB. The SBB as the route owner and the MThB regulated their cooperation with an operating agreement. Some passenger trains ran in the Gleisdreieck from Kreuzlingen via Konstanz to Kreuzlingen Hafen and vice versa, but not consistently and not for years, as the Mittelthurgau Railway ensured the connection to Konstanz. Today all regional trains run from Kreuzlingen to the port station without the detour via Constance.

On the route there was also a pair of express trains Schaffhausen – Rorschach – Buchs SG – Sargans – Chur , later Schaffhausen – Rorschach with a connection to Chur , in 1996 the course was canceled entirely. The operation was run with the oldest rolling stock of the SBB, it was not uncommon for passengers to sit in unlit trains in the morning and in the evening because the batteries in the cars failed. There were train cancellations.

With the introduction of the regular timetable in 1982 there was an hourly train between Rorschach and Schaffhausen, which was alternately run as a regional train and an express train. There was also an additional regional train between Rorschach and Romanshorn during rush hour.

Since it was taken over by the Mittelthurgau Railway, articulated railcars have been running regional trains mainly every half hour. In 2001, the lake line was integrated into the network of the newly created St. Gallen S-Bahn and served by Turbo with the hourly S 3 (Schaffhausen – Romanshorn– St. Gallen Haggen ), S 7 (Weinfelden – Romanshorn – Rorschach) and S 8 ( Kreuzlingen – Romanshorn – Rorschach) operated. This operating concept ran every half hour between Romanshorn and Rorschach. Additional regional trains between Schaffhausen and Stein am Rhein supplemented the offer every half hour. In the 2008 timetable , the S 8 was extended to Schaffhausen, which served the entire lake line every half hour.

literature

• Switzerland's rail network. Published by the General Secretariat of SBB. Bern 1980.
• Hans G. Wägli: Swiss rail network and Swiss rail profile CH +. AS Verlag , Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-909111-74-9 .
• Renato Fasciati: The lake line of the Mittelthurgau railway : experiences. (PDF; 238 kB) Seminar paper at the University of St. Gallen . June 16, 2000, accessed June 9, 2017 . 

Web links

Commons : Bodensee Seelinie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website Thurbo
• Website tariff association Ostwind

References and comments

1. ^ From Romanshorn West
2. ^ From Romanshorn
3. ↑ The two entrances from the state border to Konstanz train station are owned by Deutsche Bahn .
4. ^ Anton Heer: 150 years of the Rorschach-Konstanz lake line: How the lake railway started rolling. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online) from May 1, 2019
5. ↑ Fundamental decision for a pilot test on the “lake line”. Press releases from the Federal Department of Transport and Energy . February 29, 1996, accessed June 1, 2017 . 
6. ^ Alois Gantenbein, Werner Schwarz: Bottighofer pictures. From the Wisi photo collection. Railway station. Retrieved June 1, 2017 . 
7. ↑ pro rata from the start of operations on 1.6.1997
8. ↑ Altnau in operation . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 11 , 1998, ISSN  1022-7113 , pp. 455 .
9. ↑ «We rely on connection». In: Thurgauer Zeitung . September 9, 2002, accessed June 1, 2017 . 
10. ↑ First stop after 131 years. In: Thurgauer Zeitung. June 17, 2002, accessed June 1, 2017 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Many reasons for the failure of the MThB. In: Thurgauer Zeitung. October 14, 2002, accessed June 1, 2017 . 
12. ^ ^{A b} Max Eichenberger: Train closer to the front door. A chain of pearls on the lake line was added meaningfully: New stops inaugurated - Thurbo railcars christened «Steinach». In: Thurgauer Zeitung. February 15, 2008, accessed June 1, 2017 . 
13. ^ History. Steinach train station. In: Website of the Steinach community. Retrieved June 1, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Faster by train from St.Gallen to Konstanz. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . August 14, 2015, accessed June 1, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Donat Beerli: 15 minutes faster in Zurich. In: Thurgauer Zeitung. April 12, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Implementing provisions for the driver service regulations (AB FDV Infrastructure) R I-30111, Chapter 5.1, Section 3.2.4. (PDF; 5.0 MB) Overview map of the route class. (No longer available online.) SBB, BLS Netz AG and Südostbahn, January 18, 2013, archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on June 1, 2017 . 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.  
17. ↑ Implementing provisions for the driver service regulations (AB FDV Infrastructure) R I-30111, Chapter 5.1, Section 3.8.3. (PDF; 5.0 MB) Overview map EBV O2 / double-deck car. (No longer available online.) SBB, BLS Netz AG and Südostbahn, January 18, 2013, archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on June 1, 2017 . 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.  
18. ↑ Implementation provisions for the driver service regulations (AB FDV Infrastructure) R I-30111, Chapter 5.1 Section 2.1. (PDF; 5.0 MB) Overview map pantograph - exceptions according to R 30121. (No longer available online.) SBB, BLS Netz AG and Südostbahn, January 18, 2013, archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on June 1, 2017 . 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.  
19. ^ Hermann Bürgi : Freight train traffic on the lake line Konstanz-Romanshorn-Rorschach. Interpellation in the Council of States . The Federal Assembly - The Swiss Parliament, December 8, 2008, accessed on June 1, 2017 . 
20. ^ Official course book summer 1982