Samedan – Pontresina railway line

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Samedan – Pontresina
Train to Samedan – Scuol-Tarasp in Pontresina station

Train to Samedan – Scuol-Tarasp in Pontresina station
Timetable field : 960
Route length: 5.293 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system : 11 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope : 26  ‰
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Albula Railway from Thusis
Station, station
 97.707 Samedan 1705 m
   
 Albula Railway to St. Moritz
   
 98.046 Inn
Stop, stop
 100.537 Punt Muragl 1728 m
   
 100.714 Flazbach
   
 Bernina Railway from St. Moritz
Station, station
 103,000 Pontresina 1774 m
Route - straight ahead
 Bernina Railway to Tirano

The Samedan – Pontresina railway line , also known as the Pontresiner line , is a meter-gauge Swiss narrow-gauge railway operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). The line located in the Upper Engadine connects Samedan with Pontresina and thus represents the link between the Albula Railway and the Bernina Railway. The railway discussed here is often included on the Engadine line from Bever to Scuol-Tarasp , with which it is closely linked in operational terms. The Samedan – Pontresina railway is part of the RhB main network, The mileage therefore has its zero point in Landquart .

history

The railway line was opened on July 1, 1908, together with the Pontresina– Morteratsch section of the Bernina Railway Company. Until July 1, 1909, it was the only connection between the main RhB network and the Bernina line, which was already electrified (with direct current ). In 1913 the Pontresiner line was also electrified, but with 11 kV 16⅔ Hz alternating current .

business

To this day, Pontresina station is a two-system station. The main network trains from Samedan occupy tracks 1 and 2, the Bernina trains on tracks 4 to 7. Track 3 has a switchable contact line and is used, for example, by the Bernina Express from Chur to Tirano and by the so-called Heidiexpress . The trains enter and leave the vehicle, as does the change of locomotive, using the power system required in each case.

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 .
  • Hans G. Wägli: Swiss rail network and Swiss rail profile CH + , in a slipcase. AS Verlag , Zurich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-909111-74-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RhB terminology ( Memento of May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )