Bern Tramway Company (1888)
| Bern Tramway Company | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Bern |
| Reference year | 1899 |
| legal form | private joint-stock company |
| founding | 1888 |
| resolution | 1899 |
| Employee | 92 |
| sales | 0.33 million SFr. |
| Lines | |
| Gauge | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| tram | 2 |
| Tram car | 10 compressed air railcars + 8 steam tram locomotives with trailers |
| statistics | |
| Mileage | 0.18 million km per year |
| Tram lines | 7.68 km |
The Berner Tramway-Gesellschaft , abbreviated BT , often also BTG , not to be confused with the new establishment of the same name in 2001 , was a public transport company in the Swiss federal city of Bern . The neighboring municipality of Köniz also served a stretch .
history
The Bernese Tramway Company was founded in 1888 and received on 18 July 1889 by the Swiss Federal Assembly issued 80 years of the concession for the operation of municipal trams in Bern . The first line went into operation on October 1, 1890. It led from the Bärengraben over the Bubenbergplatz at the train station to the Bremgarten cemetery and was driven over by compressed air railcars. The system was chosen to avoid the construction of overhead lines. In 1894 a second line, in the form of a steam tram , was added, Länggasse – Bahnhof – Grosswabern. The emissions from the steam car led to many lawsuits - it was the first time that a steam tram was used in a city center in Switzerland. The Berner Tramway-Gesellschaft was also entrusted with the management of the Bern – Gümligen – Worb Dorf railway, which opened in 1898 .
In a referendum, the city of Bern decided to buy back the tram company and switch the lines to electrical operation with overhead lines. With a purchase agreement dated June 6, 1898, the city of Bern took over the concession as well as the company's assets and liabilities on January 1, 1900. The service department responsible for the tram was initially called Städtische Strassenbahnen Bern (SSB). From January 1, 1904, the Bern-Muri-Gümligen-Worb-Bahn (BMGWB) went over to self-service.
See also
swell
- Claude Jeanmaire: The trams of Bern and Thun. Rolling stock, routes, development and history. Archive No. 5, Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen AG 1969, ISBN 3-85649-005-1
- Claude Jeanmaire and René Stamm: The overland railways from Bern to Worb. History and rolling stock of two suburban lines in Bern. Archive No. 11, Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen AG 1971, ISBN 3-85649-011-6
Web links
- Berner Tramways. In: bahndaten.ch. Via Storia
Individual evidence
- ↑ bahndaten.ch