Lausanne – Bern railway line

Lausanne – Bern
An EW IV shuttle train on the Grandfey Viaduct
Timetable field :	250 Lausanne – Friborg 301 Friborg – Bern
Route length:	97.2 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	16.7 Hz, 15 kV  ~
Dual track :	Lausanne – Bern
Legend from Geneva / Biel 0.0 Lausanne 447 m to Brig 2.4 Pully North 473 m Viaduc de Conversion (177 m) 4.0 La Conversion 500 m 5.8 Bossière 524 m 8.3 Grandvaux 565 m Grandvaux tunnel (392 m) Cornallaz Tunnel (494 m) by Vevey 12.1 Puidoux - Chexbres 617 m 14.6 Moreillon 657 m from bull 20.6 Palézieux 669 m to Payerne 24.4 Oron 700 m 30.5 Vauderens 757 m old route until 2001 Vauderens tunnel (1,975 m) Old Vauderens tunnel (921m) 35.4 Siviriez 737 m from bull 40.2 Romont 707 m 45.0 Villaz-Saint-Pierre 706 m 49.6 Chénens 722 m 52.4 Cottens 713 m 55.4 Neyruz 687 m 57.5 Rose 668 m 60.4 Matran 643 m 62.1 Villars-sur-Glâne 640 m 66.0 Friborg / Freiburg 629 m to Murten and Payerne – Yverdon Friborg / Freiburg Poya 609 m Grandfey Viaduct (352 m) 72.2 Düdingen 596 m 75.5 Fillistorf 607 m 77.9 Schmitten 606 m Mühletal tunnel (399 m) 80.3 Wünnewil 588 m Flamatt tunnel (187 m) from Laupen 84.1 Flamatt 552 m Scythe (75 m) 86.9 Thörishaus village 575 m 88.2 Thörishaus 585 m 89.4 Upper cheeks 575 m 91.0 Niederwangen 568 m 93.0 Bern Bümpliz South 562 m 94.1 Bern Europaplatz 562 m from Thun and from Schwarzenburg from Neuchâtel 94.9 Bern Weyermannshaus Donnerbühl tunnel (400 m) 97.2 Bern 540 m RBS to Worblaufen – Solothurn / Worb to Olten , to Lucerne to Thun and Biel

The Lausanne – Bern railway line is an electrified main line in Switzerland .

history

The construction of the line from Lausanne to Bern was mainly carried out by the Chemin de fer Lausanne-Friborg-Berne ( LFB ). The short stretch from Bern to Thörishaus alone was completed by the Swiss Central Railway . On July 2, 1860, the northern part of the line from Bern to Balliswil at the north warehouse of the Grandfey Viaduct , the most complex engineering structure on the line, was put into operation. From September 4, 1862, operations to Lausanne could also be started.

Through the merger of LFB with two other railway companies, the Chemins de fer de la Suisse Occidentale was created in 1872 , from which the Suisse-Occidentale-Simplon emerged . After trading under the name Jura-Simplon-Bahn through another merger in 1890 , the Lausanne – Bern railway line finally came to the Swiss Federal Railways through nationalization in 1902 .

Accidents

• On July 7, 1876, four dead and three injured were to be mourned after a clash in Palézieux .
• On June 21, 1903, in Palézieux, an express train crashed into a stationary shunting locomotive. The shunter fell over the embankment. Six travelers were killed, eight travelers and one railway employee were injured.
• On November 12, 1968, a passenger train crashed into an oncoming local freight train near Grandvaux . A train driver lost his life, another train driver and a wagon inspector were injured.
• On January 31, 1977 in called Schmitten the collision of after Zurich -propelled Red arrow RAe 4/8 1021 with a freight train shunting one dead and 16 injured.
• On September 29, 1982, a delayed express train drove over a switch in a distracting position at Bern station at 120 instead of 40 km / h. The derailment caused 15 injuries.

business

The Lausanne – Bern route is an important part of the connections from Lucerne and Zurich to Geneva . It serves both long-distance and local transport.

Between Bern and Friborg is the distance component of the line S 1 of S-Bahn Bern . From Palézieux to Lausanne, the route is used by lines S 2 and S 4 of the Léman S-Bahn .

Attempts are currently being made to reduce the travel time of the InterCity trains between Lausanne and Bern to 55 minutes by using roll compensation on the vehicle, so that Lausanne can be integrated into the timetable system as a clock node .

literature

• Hans G. Wägli; Sébastien Jacobi, Swiss rail network: lines, bridges, tunnels: a technical-historical atlas = Réseau ferré suisse: atlas technique et historique: toutes les lignes, les ponts, les tunnels, 3rd, ref. and completely revised Ed., Zurich: AS-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-909111-74-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcel Manhart: List of the most serious rail accidents in Switzerland up to May 2006 from SBB Historic. Retrieved October 26, 2013 . 
2. ↑ On the railway accident in Oerlikon. (PDF; 326 kB) aftermath z. Railway accident in Oerlikon. The fateful steam locomotive. In: Liechtensteiner Volksblatt. December 22, 1932, p. 7 , accessed November 20, 2013 . 
3. ^ Report of the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly on its management in 1903. (PDF, 10.0 MB) Postal and Railway Department. In: Swiss Federal Gazette. April 6, 1904, p. 453 , accessed October 20, 2013 . 
4. ^ Collision de train de Grandvaux: Un mort, deux blessés. Gros dégâts. (Le Temps - archives historiques) (No longer available online.) Journal de Genève, Genève, November 14, 1968, p. 3 , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved November 18, 2013 (French). 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.  
5. ↑ Une “Flèche rouge” heurté un train marchandises: 10 blessés. (Le Temps - archives historiques) (No longer available online.) Journal de Genève, Geneva, January 31, 1977, p. 14 , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved November 15, 2013 (French). 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.  
6. ^ Accident de Schmitten. Un mort. (Le Temps - archives historiques) (No longer available online.) Journal de Genève, Geneva, February 1, 1977, p. 7 , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved November 15, 2013 (French). 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.  
7. ^ Erich Preuss: Railway accidents in Europe . Facts, reports, minutes. 4th edition. Transpress, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-344-70716-7 , pp. 109 .
8. ^ Eisenbahn-Revue International , 4/2010, pp. 174-181; 184f.