Birseckbahn (company)
The Birseckbahn , abbreviated to BEB , was a railway company in Switzerland . The Arlesheim- based company owned and from 1916 also operator of the Basel – Dornach railway line, which opened in 1902 . In the urban area of Basel, the BEB cars also used the Basel tram network . The company merged on January 1, 1974 with the Birsigthalbahn (BTB), the Basel-Aesch tramway (TBA) and the Basellandschaftliche Ueberlandbahn (BUeB) to form the then newly founded Baselland Transport AG (BLT).
Web links
- The Birseckbahn on www.tram-bus-basel.ch
- The Birseckbahn on www.bahndaten.ch
- Overview of all vehicles procured by the Birseckbahn on www.pospichal.net
literature
- Claude Jeanmaire: The Development of the Basel Trams and Overland Railways 1840-1969 . Publishing house for railways and trams, Basel 1969
- 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