Worb Dorf – Worblaufen railway line

Worb village-Worblaufen
Timetable field :	307
Route length:	9.81 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	1250 volts  =
Maximum slope :	29  ‰
Legend 9.86 Worb village to Bern 10.25 Worbboden 11.69 Vechigen 12.79 Boll-Utzigen 14.73 Stettlen 15.57 Deisswil Connection to the cardboard factory 16.11 Bolligen B system 17.54 Bolligen 18.58 Ittigen near Bern to Bern Kornhausplatz Eyfeld Transition to the Bern tram 19.23 Paper mill 19.80 BKW from Solothurn and from Unterzollikofen 20.87 Worblauf to Bern

The Worb Dorf – Worblaufen railway line , not to be confused with the Bern – Worb Dorf railway line running south, is an 11.19-kilometer, meter-gauge , electrified railway line in the Swiss canton of Bern .

description

Trains to and from Worb Dorf at Worblaufen station

The starting point is Worb Dorf

It meets the Bern – Unterzollikofen and Solothurn – Worblaufen lines at Worblaufen station . From here, all trains continue on a double-track line to the Swiss federal city of Bern . All three routes are now operated by Regionalverkehr Bern – Solothurn (RBS) and the passenger trains that run on them have been integrated into the Bern S-Bahn since 2004 .

The route to Worb Dorf is now served by the S7 line. From 1974 to 2004 this was the W line, whereby short-run trains as far as Ittigen were marked with a red line signal crossed out . The operating centers are Worblaufen, Worb Dorf and Worbboden, where there are depots , and a workshop in Worbboden. As a special feature, the BKW –Worblaufen (–Oberzollikofen) section is designed as a three- rail track for freight traffic .

The line from Worb via Ittigen to Papiermühlestrasse (today Guisanplatz) as well as the former branch line between Ittigen and the powder factory, where there was a connection to the BZB powder factory-Worblaufen line, were opened on August 23, 1913 by the Worblental Railway. On the former branch line from Ittigen to Worblaufen, passenger traffic was discontinued between 1923 and 1974, and it was used as a pure freight route. With the relocation of the Bern terminus to the tunnel station under Bern main station, the Ittigen route to Guisanplatz (Kornhaus) was discontinued and canceled. The Worblaufen – Papiermühle – Ittigen section was rebuilt in stages between 1968 and 1985 and moved away from the road and expanded to double lane throughout until 2007. The section Worblaufen – powder factory (later BKW service station, today siding concrete works) was originally built by the Bern – Zollikofen Railway (BZB) and opened in 1912, the powder factory – Ittigen line in 1913 by the Worblental Railway (WT). From 1923 to 1969 there was no passenger traffic on this section, it was only used for goods traffic to the then extensive sidings. It was not until 1972 that the Worblaufen concrete plant was developed with a siding, which was the last to be served until 2012, after the Deisswil cardboard factory was closed in 2010 and the volumes transported collapsed. Today the track at the concrete plant is still used by the RBS construction services; standard gauge wagons with ballast, rails, sleepers and other materials can still be brought there.

On April 26, 1985, four people died in a collision between two trains near Deisswil , 16 people were injured. A train from Bern has the intersection of counter-move from Worb not wait. After the accident, the ZSL 90 train protection system was developed at great expense .

Operating points

Operating office	Track system	Installation	Remarks
Worblauf	Branch station with 6 tracks, depot system, storage and goods tracks	1912	Various conversions and extensions
Powder factory	Stop until 1923, sidings, ownership border Bern – Zollikofen-Bahn and Worblentalbahn	1912-1968	Replacement by BKW service station (new route)
Concrete plant siding (formerly BKW service station)	Service station, sidings	1968	By 2007, start of the double track to Ittigen
Paper mill	two tracks, outside locks depending on the level crossing	1985	Line relocation
Ittigen near Bern	two tracks, an outer platform and a central platform	1913	up to 200X a siding for Adhesa AG
Bolligen	two tracks	1913	a short siding for company vehicles
Bolligen B system	Service station	1953	Siding 2 sidings
Deisswil	Stop, one track	1913
Stettlen	Railway station, two tracks	1913
Boll-Utzigen	Railway station, two tracks	1913
Vechigen	Stop, one track	1913
Worbboden	Stop, one track	2006	Depot workshop (1972)
Worb village	End station, two tracks	1913	Station concourse (2002)

literature

• Claude Jeanmaire: The overland railway from Bern to Worb. History and rolling stock of two suburban lines in Bern. Publishing house for railway and tram literature, Basel 1971.
• Theo Stolz, Paul Bucher: Solothurn-Zollikofen-Bern-Bahn. History and rolling stock. Solothurn-Zollikofen-Bern-Bahn, Worblaufen 1979.
• Jürg Aeschlimann: Regional Transport Bern – Solothurn; Part 1: Lines G and W. Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 1998, ISBN 3-907579-07-0 .
• Hans G. Wägli: Railway Profile Switzerland '05. Diplory Verlag, Grafenried 2004, no ISBN.
• Hans G. Wägli: Railway profile Switzerland CH +. Diplory Verlag, Grafenried 2010, no ISBN.

Web links

Commons : Worb Dorf – Worblaufen railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the RBS

Individual evidence

1. ^ Collision de trains près de Berne: quatre morts. (Le Temps - archives historiques) (No longer available online.) Journal de Genève, Geneva, April 27, 1985, p. 15 , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved November 14, 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.  
2. ↑ Peter Scheidegger: Accidents trigger improvements . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 11/2004 . Minirex, ISSN  1022-7113 , p. 497 .