Birsigthalbahn company
The Birsigthalbahn , later partly written Birsigtalbahn as a result of the Orthographic Conference of 1901 , was a railway company in Switzerland . The abbreviation was BTB , the company headquarters of the corporation was Basel . She was the owner and operator of the Basel – Rodersdorf railway line , which opened between 1887 and 1910 and which also runs a short stretch across French territory near Leymen . The company merged on January 1, 1974 with the Birseckbahn (BEB), the Basel-Aesch tramway (TBA) and the Basellandschaftliche Ueberlandbahn (BUeB) to form the then newly founded Baselland Transport AG (BLT). The vehicles of the Birsigthalbahn were last painted light blue and white.
literature
- Claude Jeanmaire: The Development of Basler Trams and Overland Railways 1840-1969 . Publishing house for railways and trams, Basel 1969.
- Hansrudolf Schwabe et al. : 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