Landquart – Thusis railway line

Landquart – Thusis

Timetable field :

910, 940 and 941

Route length:

41.28 km

Gauge :

1000 mm ( meter gauge )

Power system :

11 kV 16.7 Hz ~

Maximum slope :

25 ‰

Legend

	from Davos
	from Rorschach
0.00	Landquart	523 m above sea level M.
1.29	Landquart Ried	522 m above sea level M.
2.22	Igis	523 m above sea level M.
3.6	Zizer's old remover
3.99	Zizers	531 m above sea level M.
5.82	Untervaz trimis	537 m above sea level M.
7.17	Trimmis (until 2006)	541 m above sea level M.
10.96	Haldenstein	562 m above sea level M.
12.6	Chur Wiesental

13.68	Chur	584 m above sea level M.
	to Arosa
15.17	Chur West	578 m above sea level M.
17.71	Felsberg	569 m above sea level M.
20.15	Domat / Ems	581 m above sea level M.
22.02	Ems plant	597 m above sea level M.
23.57	Reichenau - Tamins	604 m above sea level M.

	Hinterrhein Bridge (151 m)
	to Disentis / Mustér

27.44	Bonaduz	659 m above sea level M.
28.69	Rhäzüns	654 m above sea level M.
32.81	Rothenbrunnen	622 m above sea level M.
36.59	rodels -Realta	640 m above sea level M.
38.49	Cazis	658 m above sea level M.
41.26	Thusis	697 m above sea level M.
	Albula Railway to St. Moritz

The Landquart – Thusis railway line is a meter-gauge Swiss narrow-gauge railway . It is operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) and runs from Landquart via the Grisons canton capital Chur to Filisur . It is part of the main RhB network and provides the connection between the Landquart – Davos Platz railway and the Albulabahn . Between Landquart and Chur, the line covered here runs largely parallel to the standard-gauge Chur – Rorschach railway of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).

description

A Glacier Express coupled with a RegioExpress between Reichenau-Tamins and Bonaduz

Three-rail track in Domat / Ems

The Landquart station is the starting point of the Rhaetian Railway, historically as part of the Landquart-Davos railway, operationally as the site of the main workshop and network-wise as kilometer 0 of all master network links.

While the SBB's passenger traffic ends in Chur, there is also a transition to the Arosa Railway , there is a three - rail track system in Untervaz and a three - rail track (axle load 22.5 tons) from Chur to Domat / Ems in the Ems-Chemie plant for standard-gauge freight traffic and the large sawmill Mayr-Melnhof Swiss Timber AG. From Domat / Ems, all track systems are exclusively meter-gauge. In Reichenau-Tamins, the railway line branches off to Disentis / Mustér , which merges into the main line of the MGB and is used continuously by the Glacier Express .

At Thusis, the route covered here flows smoothly into the Albula Railway , which continues the kilometer stretch from Landquart to St. Moritz and passes it on in Bever GR to the two branches of the Engadine line to Scuol - Tarasp and Pontresina .

With the timetable change on December 10, 2006, the Trimmis station was discontinued. The Untervaz train station was therefore given the new double name Untervaz-Trimmis , which refers to the indirect development of the municipality of Trimmis.

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 .