Cisalpine
Cisalpine | |
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Train type: |
1961-1984: TEE 1984-1987: TGV , IC 1987-2003: TGV , EC |
Countries: |
France Switzerland Italy |
Predecessor: | Simplon Orient Express |
First drive: | July 1, 1961 |
Last drive: | May 17, 2003 |
Former operator: | SBB , FS and SNCF |
route | |
Departure station: | Paris Gare de Lyon |
Destination station: |
1961–1993: Milano Centrale 1974–1979: Venezia St. Lucia 1993–2003: Lausanne |
Railway line: | Simplon route |
Route length: | 822 km |
Technical specifications | |
Rolling stock: |
1961–1974: SBB RAe TEE II 1974–1984: Locomotives FS E.444 , SBB Re 4/4 II and SNCF CC 21000 with Mistral 69 cars 1984–2003 : TGV Sud-Est |
Gauge (s) : | 1435 mm |
Power system (s): | 1500 V = 3000 V = 15 kV 16 2 / 3 Hz 25 Hz 50 kV |
Train run | |
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The TEE Cisalpin was an international European long-distance train ( Trans-Europ-Express ) that connected Paris with Milan . The train owes its name to the Roman name of the Po plain. Literally: this side of the Alps.
The pair of trains was introduced in the summer of 1961. In Switzerland it carried the train numbers 39 and 50, from 1963 to 1967 35 and 36. Intermediate stops were Dijon , Vallorbe (from 1962), Lausanne , Brig and Domodossola . Were used as vehicles modern four power unit trains of the Swiss series RAe TEE II . 1974 Cisalpin was on with locomotives hauled trains changed, for which the passenger car , the INOX-TEE cars of the SNCF ( SNCF ) were used, of which the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) also had 5 pieces.
Train run
Winter timetable 1970/71 according to the official Swiss timetable:
TEA 14 | country | railway station | km | TEA 13 |
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15:00 | Italy | Milano Centrale | 0 | 21:08 |
16:15 | Italy | Domodossola | 125 | 19:54 |
16:45 | Switzerland | Brig | 167 | 19:24 |
18:13 | Switzerland | Lausanne | 313 | 17:57 |
18:48 | Switzerland | Vallorbe | 360 | 17:20 |
20:18 | France | Dijon | 507 | 15:36 |
22:44 | France | Paris Gare de Lyon | 822 | 13:15 |
From 1974 to 1979 the connection, now run as TEE 22 and 23, was extended to Venice in the summer months . There was also a stop in Sion in 1975 and in Dole in 1978 . In January 1984 the connection was finally discontinued and partly replaced by TGV trains. However, these only run daily between Paris and Lausanne.
The connection from Paris Gare de Lyon to Milano Porta Garibaldi is now served several times a day by TGV, but the route no longer runs through Switzerland, but via Lyon Part Dieu , Modane and Torino Porta Susa .
Accidents
On October 5, 1962, TEE Cisalpin, traveling to Paris, suffered a serious accident near the Montbard train station . The almost brand new RAe TEE II 1053 of the SBB drove at 140 km / h into a tank car that had crashed on the opposite track and protruded into the clearance profile , derailed, overturned and then rammed a stone guard's house. The accident left ten dead and eleven injured. Control car 1, damaged in the accident, was broken off and replaced by a new vehicle.
On June 26, 1964, the RAe TEE II 1052 drove on a level crossing between Vaux-et-Chantegrue and Labergement-Sainte-Marie in a truck loaded with bitumen , with three fatalities and 20 injured.
literature
- Center for public relations UIC: TEE . Ed .: Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer. Paris 1972 (Dutch).
- DB advertising office: Right of way in Europe, TEE 1971/72 . Ed .: Deutsche Bundesbahn. Frankfurt am Main 1971.
- Peter Goette, Peter Willen: TEE trains in Switzerland and Swiss TEE trains abroad . Ed .: EK Verlag. Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-88255-697-8 .
- Hans-Bernhard Schönborn: The TEE trains in Switzerland . Ed .: GeraMond Verlag. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7654-7122-4 .
- Christian Zellweger: Icon of the luxury trains . Ed .: SBB Historic, AS Verlag. Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-905111-95-0 .
- Jörg Hajt: The big TEE book . Ed .: Heel. Bonn / Königswinter 2001, ISBN 3-89365-948-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Center for public relations UIC: TEE . Ed .: Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer. Paris 1972, p. 14 (Dutch).
- ↑ General Directorate of the Swiss Federal Railways (Ed.): Official course book of Switzerland . 27. IX. 1970 - 22. V. 1971. Winter. Operations department of the general management of SBB, Bern 1970, timetable fields D1 (London · Paris via Genève et Vallorbe) and 20 (Domodossola – Simplon – Brig – St-Maurice – Lausanne / Genève – Vallorbe) .
- ↑ Le "Cisalpin" déraille: 3 mort 20 blessés, dont 2 Lausannois. In: Gazette de Lausanne, Lausanne. June 27, 1964, p. 16 , accessed on November 18, 2013 (French, in Le Temps - archives historiques).