Landquart – Davos Platz railway line

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Landquart – Davos Platz
Section of the Landquart – Davos Platz railway line
Timetable field : 910 and 941
Route length: 49.978 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system : 11 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope : 45  ‰
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Thusis
Station, station
 0.000 Landquart 523 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 2.072 Malans 536 m above sea level M.
tunnel
 Klus (984 m)
Stop, stop
 6.732 Seewis-Pardisla 593 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 7,905 Grüsch 630 m above sea level M.
Bridge (medium)
 Mouth table (86 m)
Station without passenger traffic
 8.910 Schiers north 613 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 11.457 Schiers 654 m above sea level M.
tunnel
 Fuchsenwinkel (785 m)
Station without passenger traffic
 14.854 Fox angle 715 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 15.393 Furna 715 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 16.741 Jenaz 723 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 18.202 Fideris 744 m above sea level M.
   
 Landquart III (76 m)
Station, station
 21,443 Küblis 810 m above sea level M.
tunnel
 Küblis (215 m)
Station without passenger traffic
 Capals
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 Saas (88 m)
Station, station
 24,595 Saas 935 m above sea level M.
   
 27.695 Serneus 1028 m above sea level M.
   
 Saaseralpbach (60 m)
Station, station
 30.653 Klosters village 1124 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 32,436 Klosters Platz 1191 m above sea level M.
   
 Landquart Klosters (71 m)
   
 Vereina route to Sagliains
tunnel
 Klosters (402 m)
tunnel
 Cavadürli (334 m)
Station, station
 36.623 Cavadürli 1352 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 40.823 Davos Laret 1522 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 43.685 Davos Wolfgang 1625 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 47.331 Davos village 1560 m above sea level M.
Station, station
 49.978 Davos place 1540 m above sea level M.
Route - straight ahead
 after Filisur

The Landquart – Davos Platz railway , also known as the Davos line , Prättigauer line or, after the earlier railway company, the Landquart – Davos Railway , is a meter-gauge Swiss narrow-gauge railway . It is operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) and has been connecting Landquart in the Rhine Valley with the health resort of Davos since 1890 .

Route description

The Landquart station is a railway junction . Travelers from Zurich or St. Gallen who want to go to Prättigau , Davos or through the Vereina tunnel into the Lower Engadine have to change from the standard-gauge Chur – Rorschach line of the Swiss Federal Railways to the narrow-gauge trains of the RhB. From the direction of Chur , there are also through RhB trains to Klosters and Davos or Scuol - Tarasp coming from the Landquart – Thusis railway line .

After leaving Landquart train station, the train first travels north, crosses the Landquart River and then turns east. The first 15 to 20 kilometers are very well developed and approved for speeds of up to 90 km / h. As far as Malans station, the route moves away from the bank of the Landquart, but then returns and will follow this river to Klosters. Originally, a route next to the Landquart was planned at Malans. Since the Malansers wanted a connection to the rail network, they made the necessary building land available and thus managed to make the small detour through Malans.

Ge 4/4 I with shuttle train and two reinforcement cars just before Saas, in the back of the valley is Küblis
Ge 4/4 II No. 630 passes through Klosters-Dorf (Jan. 2010)
Incline diagram of the route

The line is currently being expanded to two tracks from Landquart to Malans.

Between Malans and the Seewis - Valzeina station in Pardisla ( 593  m above sea level ), the route leads through the 1017 m long Chlus tunnel , which has bypassed a narrow gorge, the Chlus, since 1963. A road tunnel through which the national road 28 runs runs parallel to this tunnel .

Behind Grüsch , the line reaches the three-track Schiers station after a double-track section . In 2008, the section from the station to the Fuchsenwinkel tunnel was also expanded into a double lane. This also applies to the two bridges over the Schraubach in the village of Schiers and over the Landquart, where the route changes to the southern side of the Landquart.

Another 786 m long tunnel is passed through in front of the Fuchsenwinkel intersection . The crossing point that begins behind the eastern mouth of the tunnel consists of a 460 m long siding. The Landquart is bridged again in front of the next major train station, Küblis . The following section to Klosters is the second steepest section of the route with up to 44 per thousand.

Behind Serneus , the section of the route to Davos, which is turned at a 180 ° angle to Klosters, becomes visible. The most eye- catching feature is the 525 m long and 60 m high Sunniberg Bridge , the centerpiece of the Klosters bypass built for road traffic , which spans the Landquart valley south of the railway. After crossing Klosters Dorf , the route reaches Klosters Platz station (until 2011 only Klosters ) in the Klosters Platz fraction.

Klosters Platz train station consists of three covered platform tracks. Another through track is used for freight traffic . Behind the train station lies the unusually massive Landquart Bridge IV in a 45 ° curve . It represents the fourth and last crossing of the Landquart. Due to the unfavorable local conditions, it was realized as a girder bridge with truss openings. It is also called the Maag Bridge after the person responsible at the Rigendinger engineering office. The double-track bridge with crossing leads to two tunnels:

  • The trains go through the tunnel on the left, the Zugwaldtunnel , to the loading station of the Vereina tunnel, which was opened in 1999. This forms the core of the Vereina route that was opened at the same time and connects northern Grisons with the Lower Engadine.
  • The route to Davos runs through the right, 402 m long Klosters spiral tunnel and turns at a further 45 ° angle to the west. Here the gradient is 45 per thousand.

In the 334 m long Cavadürli spiral tunnel, the route turns again in the opposite direction, now again to the east.

The two spiral tunnels were added later to improve operations. Originally there were two hairpin bends where the train changed direction.

The Cavadürli passing point , which is a popular starting point for hikes, is already 160 m above Klosters Platz. The route then leads through thick larch and other coniferous forests to the Davos Laret station . The highest point is the Davos Wolfgang stop . Then the route leads downhill again and along Lake Davos to Davos Dorf train station and on to Davos Platz. The station of the same name is the end point of this route, where it merges with the Davos Platz – Filisur railway line .

A parliamentary initiative in 2008 to connect this line with the Arosa Railway is currently not considered a priority by the Graubünden government in view of the limited financial resources.

literature

  • Rhaetian Railway (Ed.): Rhaetian Railway today - tomorrow - yesterday . Publishing group (Desertina Verlag, Disentis; Verlag M & T-Helvetica, Chur; Terra Grischuna Verlag, Bottmingen) 1988, ISBN 3-907036-08-5 (Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the railway)
  • Hans-Bernhard Schönborn: The Rhaetian Railway, past and present , GeraMond 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7162-9
  • Eisenbahn Journal, Die RhB, specials parts 1–4, 1995–2000, Hermann Merker Verlag GmbH Fürstenfeldbruck, ISBN 3-89610-038-6 .
  • Hans Domenig: From Tingelzüglein to Hochgebirgsbahn , in: Terra Grischuna, 59th year, issue 1, Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur 2000, ISSN  1011-5196 .
  • Katharina Hess, Paul Emanuel Müller: About the wild Plessur , in: Terra Grischuna, 48th year, issue 1, Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur 1990, ISSN  1011-5196 .

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RhB terminology ( Memento of May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Jenny commissioned to work out a suitability and feasibility study for a Schanfigg - Davos rail tunnel from October 21, 2008.