Baselland Transport

Baselland Transport AG
Basic information
Company headquarters	Oberwil BL
Web presence	www.blt.ch
owner	Canton of Basel-Country (43.1%) Municipalities BL (21.8%) Federal government (16.0%) Canton Solothurn (9.0%) Canton Basel-Stadt (7.9%) Municipalities SO (1.1%) ) Private (0.8%)
Board	André Dosé
Transport network	Northwestern Switzerland tariff association
Employee	372
sales	247.1 million CHF (2018)
Lines
Gauge	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
railroad	1
tram	5
bus	19th
number of vehicles
Tram cars	97
Omnibuses	6 articulated buses 2 minibuses 40 low-floor buses
other vehicles	2 classic motor cars 2 classic car trailers
statistics
Passengers	54.8 million (2018)
Mileage	165 million passenger kilometers
Length of line network
Tram lines	64,958 km
Bus routes	166.557 km
Operating facilities
Depots	Depot Hüslimatt Depot Ruchfeld Garage Hüslimatt

The Baselland Transport AG , abbreviated BLT is a Swiss transport company , which in the cantons of Basel Country , Basel-Stadt , Solothurn and in France operates. The corporation is a railway infrastructure company on the Basel – Aesch , Basel – Dornach , Basel – Pratteln , Basel – Rodersdorf and Liestal-Waldenburg railway lines . With the exception of the route to Pratteln , which is served by the Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB) on behalf of traffic, the BLT is also the responsible railway company . Conversely, the BLT lines in the urban area of Basel use the Basel tram network operated by BVB .

history

Train to Rodersdorf in Leymen, France, the destination sign has already been changed for the return journey

Train in the final loop of the Saint-Louis border

The BLT was created in 1974 through the merger of the four companies Birsigthalbahn (BTB), Birseckbahn (BEB), Trambahn Basel-Aesch (TBA) and Basellandschaftliche Ueberlandbahn (BUeB). In the meantime, bus routes have also been added. The BLT has been working closely with the Basel transport company right from the start. The two companies initiated the environmental protection subscription in 1984 and the Northwestern Switzerland Tariff Association (TNW) in 1987 .

As a Swiss specialty, BLT has completely outsourced the maintenance of its vehicles to the industry. In 1980, a maintenance contract was signed with the rolling stock manufacturer Schindler, which had a local production facility with Schindler Waggon in Pratteln. The multi-sold and merged plant was closed in 2005 by Bombardier Transportation as a manufacturing plant. However, maintenance contracts with the manufacturers are still adhered to today.

On June 7, 2016, the railway company merged with the Waldenburgerbahn .

Lines

Train in the end loop Rodersdorf

See also : Basel tram lines

line	route	length	Stations	Travel time	opening	last innovation	course
10	Dornach Bahnhof - Ettingen Bahnhof (- Flüh Bahnhof - Rodersdorf Station)	25.974 km	34 (38/40)	62/63 minutes	October 6, 1902	June 30, 2001
11	Saint-Louis border - Aesch village	14.235 km	34	44/43 minutes	December 7, 1907	October 14, 2002
E11	Theater - Reinach Süd	11,600 km	29	29/29 minutes	October 14, 2002	-
17th	Ettingen train station - Schifflände (- Wiesenplatz )	12.215 km	18 (26)	34/36 minutes	1st January 1975	October 25, 1986
19th	Liestal train station - Waldenburg station	13,100 km	13	24/24 minutes	November 1, 1880	-

Bus routes

line	route	Stations
37	( Bottmingen Castle -) Ulmenweg - Aeschenplatz	9 (20)
47	Bottmingen Castle - Muttenz train station	15th
58	Münchenstein Klinik Birshof - Münchenstein Schlossmatt	12
59	Oberwil center - Bottmingen Castle	14th
60	Biel-Benken bridge - Muttenz train station (- Schweizerhalle Novartis)	22 (26)
61	Oberwil center - Allschwil cemetery	20th
62	( Biel-Benken bridge -) Therwil center - Dornach train station	11 (19)
63	Muttenz train station - Dornach train station	15th
64	Basel Bachgraben - Arlesheim village	33
65	Pfeffingen Bergmattenweg - Dornach train station	11
66	Dornach train station - Dornach apple lake - Dornach train station	12
91	Reigoldswil village square - Bretzwil village	5
92	Reigoldswil village square - Hölstein station	11
93	Lausen train station - Lampenberg village	8th
105	Sissach train station - Sissach Brüel - Sissach train station	5
	Sissach train station - Gelterkinden Post	8th
106	Sissach train station - Wintersingen Blumatt	16
Line 106 is operated by Sägesser Reisen von Wintersingen as a subcontractor.
107	Sissach train station - Eptingen parish square	13
108	Sissach train station - Wittinsburg Chamber	14th
109	Rümlingen village - Haefelfingen village - Haefelfingen Bad Ramsach	3 (6)

Extensions

In the course of the renewal of rolling stock to cope with the steadily increasing passenger flow, around 60 new vehicles were put out to tender together with BVB. In 2006, the procurement decision was made in favor of the new Tango development from Stadler Rail . In order to check the vehicle in detail with regard to customer friendliness as well as technical and operational aspects, the delivery of a pilot series of four vehicles to the BLT was prescribed, which was delivered from September 2008. After a test phase of over a year with positive results, the BLT Board of Directors decided in November 2009 that the order for further vehicle series would be initiated. The first main series was delivered by July 2012 and comprised 15 vehicles for the BLT. The second main series will be delivered from 2014 and will include another 19 vehicles for the BLT. After their own passenger surveys had been commissioned, in which the majority voted in favor of a completely low-floor vehicle, BVB terminated the preliminary contract for joint tram procurement with BLT. BVB's tram procurement was completely re-tendered. BVB's call for tenders worth 300 million Swiss francs was launched on January 26, 2011, and the decision to abandon the tangos is therefore definitive.

The Hüslimatt tram depot was enlarged to accommodate the new vehicles. Various stops also had to be adapted so that the new vehicles could run smoothly.

With the timetable change on December 11, 2011, BLT increased the frequency of its lines 10 and 17 from ten to seven and a half minutes. At peak times (morning and evening) a tram now runs every three and a half minutes from Monday to Saturday between Ettingen im Leimental and the Theater stop.

Planning

• In the years 2018 to 2020, a connection to the Basel SBB train station, called Margarethenstich , was to be built at the Dorenbach Viaduct in Basel . This route should go into operation on the timetable change in December 2020 and would have been used by line 17 during rush hour. In the cantonal referendum on September 24, 2017, however, the voters of the canton of Basel-Landschaft spoke out against the project, which will therefore not be implemented. The director of the BLT was subsequently convinced that a similar project would be voted on again in 10 to 15 years.
• Between the Bottmingermühle and Binningen Schloss stops, the single-track line is to be expanded to double-track.
• In the long term, the possibility of Expresstrams in Birsigtal is being examined.
• On May 27, 2013, the BLT Board of Directors decided to order a further 19 Tango trams (second order lot). Their delivery began on March 3, 2015, the last tram of the second series arrived on September 7, 2016. Like the first series, they were delivered directly by train and unloaded at the Dreispitz. The Tango trams replaced the Schindler compositions on lines 10 and 11. The sedan vehicles will continue to run on operational lines 17 (until probably 2023) and E11.

Rolling stock

Former motor vehicles

image	Type	Numbers	number	Manufacturer	Years of construction	Remarks
	Be 4/6 / Duewag articulated trolley	123, 133, 135, 136, 141, 143, 158	07th	Duewag	1972	2001 used, formerly BVB 623, 633, 635, 636, 641, 643 and 658; 136 scrapped after the 2011 disaster exercise, the rest of them were given away to the Belgrade tram in Serbia in August 2012
	Be 4/6	101-108	08th	SWP	1971-1972	Still procured by the BEB, in the end they only ran as a guided multiple unit , from the 40th anniversary of the BLT, number 105 again had the original Birseckbahn paintwork, all of the cars were handed over to Belgrade in 2016
	Be 4/6	109-115	07th	SWP	1975-1976	last only ran as guided railcars, all cars were handed over to Belgrade in 2016
	Be 4/8	204, 206, 221-223, 250, 252	07th	SWP	1981	originally Be 4/6, expanded in 1988 to an eight-axle vehicle with a low-floor middle section ("sedan chair"); 250 discarded after an accident in 2011, 204, 206, 221, 222, 223 and 252 were sold to the Gotha tram in August 2018 .

Current motor vehicles

image	Type	Numbers	number	Manufacturer	Years of construction	Remarks
	Be 4/6	201, 203, 205, 208, 213, 214, 224-231, 233, 247, 257, 258, 260-266	25th	SWP	1978-1981	run only as guided railcars, 201, 203, 205, 208, 214, 231, 233, 247 and 257 were at times eight-axle vehicles with a low-floor middle section ("sedan chair"), but were dismantled
	Be 4/8	202, 207, 209-212, 215-220, 232, 234-246, 248, 249, 251, 253-256, 259	34	SWP	1978-1981	originally Be 4/6, 1987–1999 expanded to eight-axle vehicles with a low-floor middle section ("sedan chair").
	Be 6/10 Tango	151-169, 171-189	38	Stadler	2008-2016	The following cars are named: 151 Binningen, 152 Basel, 153 Bottmingen, 154 Dornach, 155 Oberwil, 156 Arlesheim, 157 Therwil, 158 Münchenstein, 159 Ettingen, 160 Reinach, 161 Witterswil, 162 Aesch, 163 Bättwil.

Former followers

The so-called Säuli tram with the number 1322 originally advertised the Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank and was retired at the end of 2012. Today it is in the Pig Museum in Stuttgart.

• B 1301–1303, formerly VBZ B 799–801 (1973)
• B 1304–1305, Swiss standard car , formerly BVB B 1404, 1408 (1948)
• B 1316–1322, Swiss standard car, formerly BVB B 1416–1422 (1961)

Since December 2, 2012, the BLT has stopped using trailers. Subsequently, the motor vehicle began to remove the compressed air hoses that were no longer required during longer workshop visits.

Current buses (BLT in-house operation)

• 40 Mercedes Citaro O530
• 1 Scania Citywide CNG (2016)
• 13 Mercedes O530G
• 4 Mercedes Sprinter City 65 (2007)

There are also twelve regular-service buses from the Sissach-Eptingen (AGSE) car company, mostly of the Mercedes Citaro type, with various substructures, as well as a Setra S315 NF and a Mercedes Citaro O530 from the transport agent Sägesser Reisen, Wintersingen.

Historic vehicles

On the occasion of the fundamental renovation of the routes to Dornach and Rodersdorf at the end of the 1960s, the vehicles from the early days were replaced by modern rolling stock. Some selected vehicles have been preserved for posterity, some in their original condition or as official vehicles. Because Baselland Transport AG was only able to pay for the maintenance and refurbishment of the historic rail vehicles to a very limited extent, it took a long time for the railcars to be refurbished by third parties.

Owned by the BLT

All four BLT museum cars were originally delivered to BEB, are housed in the Hüslimatt depot and are operational:

Art	Type	number	Construction year	Manufacturer	Remarks
Motor vehicle	Ce 2/2	04th	1902	Bautzen / Alioth	1935 rebuilt to Ce 2/3, restored in 2002 by RJ rail technology in Biel from parts of the motor vehicle Be 2/3 1 + 4
Motor vehicle	Ce 2/4	12	1916	SWS / BBC	Restored in 2005 at RJ rail technology in Biel ( car body ) or in the RhB workshop in Landquart (bogies)
pendant	C.	27	1916	SWS	Converted to the C3 in 1947
Summer trailer	C.	41	1916	SIG

In 2012, the Pro BTB association also brought BTB motor car 7, trailer 52 and a freight car - which is now in a private garden - from the Écomusée d'Alsace to Rodersdorf to refurbish them.

Third party property

Original owner	Art	Type	number	Construction year	Manufacturer	Owner / location	Remarks
BEB	Motor vehicle	Ce 2/2	5	1905	SWS / Alioth	Kerzers / Kallnach Railway Museum	1)
BEB	Motor vehicle	Ce 2/4	13	1916	SWS / BBC	Kerzers / Kallnach Railway Museum	1)
BEB	pendant	C.	25th	1916	SWS	Private	2)
BTB	Motor vehicle	BCe 4/4	7th	1923	SWS / BBC		3)
BTB	pendant	C4	52	1926	SWS		3)
BTB	pendant	C4	53	1926	SWS	District school Bättwil
BTB	pendant	C4	54	1926	SWS		4)
BLT	Company car	X	202	1891	SIG		5), 6)

1) Delivered to the Kerzers / Kallnach Railway Museum in 2006 by Baselland Transport AG. Inoperable and parked outdoors.

2) Converted to C3 in 1947, converted to wedding car in 1992, dismantling of wedding furnishings in 2008.

3) Formerly Écomusée d'Alsace in Ungersheim , since November 2012 Pro BTB in the Rodersdorf depot

4) Écomusée d'Alsace in Ungersheim

5) Formerly Écomusée d'Alsace in Ungersheim , since November 2012 Pro BTB in the Wirz garden above Rodersdorf station

6) formerly BTB K 136, formerly SBB (Brünig) K 2019, formerly JS (Brünig) K 10919

literature

• Claude Jeanmaire: The development of the Basel trams and overland railways 1840–1969 , Verlag für Eisenbahn und Straßenbahn, Basel 1969
• Peter Willen: Trams in Switzerland. Railcar . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1978, ISBN 3-280-00998-7
• Claude Jeanmaire: Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB). A photo book on the modernization of the Basel tram from 1945 to 1982 , Verlag für Eisenbahn und Straßenbahn, Basel 1984. ISBN 3-85649-045-0
• Hansrudolf Schwabe, Rudolf Werder, Werner Heuberger, Paul Messmer, Rudolf Pleuler, Christian Siposs: BTB + BEB + TBA + BUeB = BLT, Baselland Transport AG, 100 years of regional public transport in Northern Switzerland , Pharos-Verlag, Basel 1987, ISBN 3- 7230-0222-6
• Baselland Transport AG (BLT, ed.), René Salathé: Past and present of the Birseckbahn 1902–2002 , without publisher, Oberwil 2002
• Baselland Transport AG (BLT, ed.), René Salathé: The 11er: the success story of a tram line , without a publisher, Oberwil 2007

Web links

Commons : Baselland Transport  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Baselland Transport AG website
• The BLT at www.tram-bus-basel.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.blt.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF_Content/Gesch%C3%A4ftsberichte/blt_gb_2018_es.pdf
2. ↑ SER 6/1986 page 199
3. ↑ Annual Report 2011 page 8 (PDF file; 2.9 MB)
4. ↑ Waldenburgerbahn merged with BLT . In: railway magazine . No. 8 , 2016, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 39 .
5. ↑ BLT Annual Report 2017, list of routes and route length, p. 60
6. ↑ Basel is tendering trams for 300 million
7. ^ Tram Margarethenstich . Civil engineering department of Basel-Stadt. Archived from the original on July 2, 2018. Retrieved on May 7, 2018.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Clearly no: Leimental has no direct tram connection . Swiss radio and television. September 24, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
9. ↑ Binningen - double track Spiesshöfli
10. ↑ BLT: All 38 Tango Trams delivered: Celebrities celebrate the end of the project on September 7, 2016
11. ↑ Pro BTB News 3/2012 (PDF file; 362 kB)
12. ↑ Pro BTB News 3/2012 (PDF file; 362 kB)