Broyeline

Palézieux – Payerne – Murten – Kerzers
Kerzers train station
Timetable field :	251: Palézieux – Payerne 305.2: Payerne – Murten – Kerzers
Route length:	63.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Legend from Lausanne S 2 S 4 S 21 20.6 Palézieux end point S 2 S 4 669  m above sea level M. to Friborg – Bern 23.4 Palézieux-Village 634  m above sea level M. 25.9 Châtillens 602  m above sea level M. 30.6 Ecublens - Rue 484  m above sea level M. Villangeaux 424 m 36.1 Bressonnaz 533  m above sea level M. 38.0 Moudon 509  m above sea level M. 43.4 Lucens 493  m above sea level M. 47.2 Henniez 476  m above sea level M. 50.4 Granges - Marnand 469  m above sea level M. 53.4 Trey 459  m above sea level M. from Yverdon-les-Bains 58.5 Payerne end point S 21 (* S 5 ) 452  m above sea level M. to Friborg 60.8 Corcelles -North 448  m above sea level M. 63.7 Dompierre 442  m above sea level M. 66.2 Domdidier 439  m above sea level M. 69.1 Avenches 438  m above sea level M. 72.8 Faoug 434  m above sea level M. TPF - FMA of Friborg 76.5 Murten regular end point S 5 448  m above sea level M. 78.6 Muntelier- Löwenberg 439  m above sea level M. 79.1 Muntelier 435  m above sea level M. 79.1 TPF-FMA according to Ins 80.7 Galmiz 437  m above sea level M. Crossing with the BN line Bern - Neuchâtel Connection to the BN direction Bern S 5 84.8 Kerzer's change of direction S 5 443  m above sea level M. on to Lyss
Yverdon – Payerne – Friborg
Timetable field :	252
Route length:	49.9 km
Jura footline from Neuchâtel 0.0 Yverdon-les-Bains 434  m above sea level M. Jura foot line to Lausanne and Geneva Yverdon-Champ Pittet 434  m above sea level M. 8.8 Yvonand 434  m above sea level M. 12.6 Cheyres 436  m above sea level M. 18.1 Estavayer-le-Lac 463  m above sea level M. 23.7 Cugy FR 469  m above sea level M. from Palézieux 27.9 Payerne 452  m above sea level M. to Murten - Kerzers 29.7 Corcelles Sud 451  m above sea level M. 31.8 Cousset 484  m above sea level M. 35.5 Léchelles 551  m above sea level M. 40.1 Grolley 613  m above sea level M. 44.5 Belfaux CFF 613  m above sea level M. 45.9 TPF - FMA from Murten 45.9 Givisiez 616  m above sea level M. Highway A12 72 m from Bern 49.9 Friborg 629  m above sea level M. to Lausanne

As Broyelinien or Broyetallinien refers to the two railway lines in the French-speaking Switzerland , which is in the station of Payerne crossing:

• Broye longitudinale Palézieux –Payerne– Murten - Kerzers , 64 km long
• Broye transversal Yverdon-les-Bains –Payerne– Freiburg , 50 km long

The lines named after the Broye river touch the cantons of Vaud and Friborg , and the canton border is crossed ten times.

history

The line crossing around Payerne was opened in several stages:

• June 12, 1876 Murten – Kerzers,
• August 25, 1876 Murten – Palézieux and Payerne – Freiburg,
• February 1, 1877 Payerne – Yverdon.

The owner was the Chemins de fer de la Suisse Occidentale railway company , which already operated the Jura foot line via Yverdon and the Lausanne – Bern line via Friborg. The established competition between these two main traffic routes and the rural character of the catchment area never allowed the Broyelinien to get beyond the status of branch lines .

In keeping with the low traffic, the lane along its entire length routes have been late, in the years 1944 until 1947 electrified . As early as 1903 to 1947, the Murten – Muntelier and Givisiez – Friborg sections were electrified for the trains of the Freiburg-Murten-Ins-Bahn (FMA) with 750 volts DC voltage and a lateral conductor rail.

The Palézieux – Payerne section is included in the Léman Express network as line S21 .

Accidents

On April 21, 1969 , a passenger train from Lyss to Lausanne collided with a loaded log truck at a level crossing near Galmiz . The accident claimed five lives. It was due to the truck driver's carelessness, the signaling system worked perfectly.

On September 23, 1994, a shunting train rammed a school bus on a level crossing near Payerne. One child was killed and eight others injured. When the route was set for a freight train going to Lausanne, the barriers were automatically closed. After the freight train left, the barriers opened. Just as the waiting cars drove off, the shunting train approached.

On July 29, 2013, the Granges-Marnand railway accident occurred . There must S21 an intersection with the stop at rush hours driving Regio-Express await. The station has a signal box built in 1958 and group exit signals and is only secured with an Integra-Signum , but not ZUB .

Routing

The longitudinal line Palézieux – Kerzers runs in a predominantly north-easterly direction, always along the eponymous river to Lake Murten . In the first section to Moudon , where the only tunnel on the line is located, the maximum gradient is 19  per thousand ; then the route is flatter. At the entrance to the Kerzers train station, the Bern - Neuchâtel line crosses at an acute angle at the same level. The station itself, operated jointly by SBB and BLS , underwent a fundamental renovation between 2003 and 2005. The mechanical signal box from 1896 remains as a museum.

The transverse line leads from Yverdon to Estavayer-le-Lac through the Grande Cariçaie along the shores of Lake Neuchâtel before changing over to the broad Broyetal. Behind Payerne, the watershed between Broye and Saane is overcome with a winding ramp that rises up to 21 per thousand.

Rolling stock

From 1936 to 1939 the two red diesel arrows CLm 2/4 were to be found here regularly. These were always stationed at the Lausanne depot and were then usually used on this route. There was only a one-day schedule for them, this started in Payerne and led the railcar from Payerne and three times to Lyss, two of which continued to Solothurn (on Sundays also once Solothurn-Büren on the Aare-Solothurn) and twice to Lausanne. During the Second World War they were shut down due to fuel shortages. Between 1945 and 1947 they were used again between Payerne and Freiburg.

After electrification, the “Sécherons” Ae 3/5 and Ae 3/6 ^III were to be found in front of most trains. From 1952 took BDe 04.04 - commuter trains passenger transport, which in turn in the 1990s by the NPC were replaced.

Special trips with the historic A 3/5 705 are reminiscent of the era of the 1930s and early 1940s, when the Broye was one of the last areas of operation for SBB steam locomotives .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Results of the accident statistics for the eleventh five-year observation period 1968–1972. (PDF, 3.2 MB) Swiss Accident Insurance Fund, accessed on October 18, 2013 . 
2. ^ Accident in Payerne . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 11/1994 . Minirex, ISSN  1022-7113 , p. 498 .
3. ↑ BAZ online: “We need 2 billion” , July 30, 2013, accessed on July 31, 2013.
4. ^ Mathias Rellstab, Walter von Andrian ,: The frontal collision of two SBB trains in Granges-Marnand . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 10 . Minirex, 2013, ISSN  1022-7113 , p. 540-541 .
5. ^ Sandro Sigrist, Heinz Sigrist: Red arrows. Pages 90-92.