Chemin de fer Porrentruy – Delle

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Chemin de fer Porrentruy – Delle
Route length: 11.66 km / 0.38 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope : 10  ‰
Porrentruy – Boncourt – Delle
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 SBB line from Delémont
Station, station
 112.87 Porrentruy 423  m above sea level M.
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 Courchavon 194 m
Stop, stop
 116.13 Courchavon 406  m above sea level M.
Station, station
 117.99 Courtemaîche 397  m above sea level M.
Stop, stop
 119.66 Grandgourt 391  m above sea level M.
Stop, stop
 121.45 Buix 382  m above sea level M.
Station, station
 123.35 Boncourt 374  m above sea level M.
border
124.53
464.57
State border CH – F 369  m above sea level M.
Route - straight ahead
 SBB – RFF ownership limit
   
 464.19 Dent 367  m above sea level M.
   
 RFF route to Belfort

The Chemin de fer Porrentruy – Delle ( PD ) is a former Swiss railway company. It was taken over by the Jura Bernois (JB) in 1876 , along with the almost 12 km long, standard-gauge trunk line from Porrentruy via Boncourt to Delle.

history

Delle – Pruntrut steam train near Boncourt

The short-lived Compagnie Porrentruy – Delle (PD) opened its Porrentruy – Boncourt – Delle line on September 23, 1872. In Delle this was connected to the Montbéliard – Audincourt – Morvillars – Delle line , which was opened on June 29, 1868 by the Compagnie Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM). The capital of the joint-stock company came from France. The PD did not have its own rolling stock, the French Mediterranean Railway (PLM) provided the transport.

With the cession of Alsace to the German Empire in 1871, Delle became the northernmost border station between Switzerland and France. During the existence of the PD, this remained their only railway line, which also ended isolated from the rest of the Swiss standard gauge network in Porrentruy.

On August 16, 1876, the loss-making PD was taken over by the Compagnie du Jura bernois (JB) for 1.99 million francs. The purchase price was composed of the asset value and the operating deficit. Under the JB, active in the “ Bernese Jura ” - also the literal German translation - the Delémont – Glovelier line was opened on October 15, 1876 and finally the Glovelier – Porrentruy line on March 30, 1877, the last opened section of the Delémont – Delle line .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Route lengths: Porrentruy – Boncourt border 11.66 km; Dent-boundary – dent 0.38 km ( RFF ); Total distance traveled 12.04 km

literature

  • Hans G. Wägli: Swiss Rail Network . AS Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905111-21-7 .
  • Hans G. Wägli: Railway Profile Switzerland 2005 . Diplory Verlag, Grafenried 2004.
  • Porrentruy dent. In: bahndaten.ch. Data on the Swiss railways 1847–1920. Thomas Frey and Hans-Ulrich Schiedt, ViaStoria, accessed on February 1, 2014 .