Emmental-Burgdorf-Thun Railway

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Emmental-Burgdorf-Thun Railway
Route length: 73.46 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Historic composition of the EBT with a Be 4/4 locomotive No. 102, on the way between Grosshöchstetten and Konolfingen

The Emmental-Burgdorf-Thun-Bahn ( EBT ) is a former railway company that was based in Burgdorf , Switzerland . In 1997 it merged with the United Huttwil-Bahnen (VHB) and the Solothurn-Münster-Bahn (SMB) to form Regionalverkehr Mittelland (RM). For its part, RM merged with BLS Lötschbergbahn (BLS) in June 2006 to form BLS AG .

history

Standard car EW II of the EBT group, labeled with the abbreviations of the three participating railway companies

The Emmental-Burgdorf-Thun-Bahn (EBT) was created on January 1, 1942 through the merger of the Burgdorf-Thun-Bahn (BTB) and the Emmentalbahn (EB). She continued the EB contract for the operational management of the SMB. On September 21 and 23, EBT concluded an operating contract with the predecessor railways of VHB, which were currently in merger negotiations, according to which EBT was to take over the management of the future VHB. Due to personnel changes, the management was taken over on October 1, 1943 before the merger. This created the structure that had existed as an EBT group for more than forty years. The longer the individual companies were, the less visible they were to the passenger; from 1973 even the vehicles were labeled with "EBT SMB VHB". As a consequence, this growing together led to the merger with SMB and VHB in 1997 to form the new company Regionalverkehr Mittelland (RM).

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Accidents

On September 4, 1949, the derailment of a train coming from Thun near the entry point of Heimberg station claimed two dead and six injured.

On April 21, 1952, at the Obermatt service station between Emmenmatt and Langnau in Emmental, there was a head-on collision between an EBT freight train hauled by the Be 4/4 105 and the SBB Ae 3/6 II 10424 locomotive . Due to poor visibility, the vehicles collided with each other with full force. The locomotive driver of the freight train was killed, and his colleague from SBB was able to save himself by jumping off the machine. Four train attendants were injured.

literature

  • Kurt Oehler: 100 years of operation for the Emmental Railway in Switzerland . In: Lok-Magazin . No. 72 . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, W. Keller & Co. , 1975, ISSN  0458-1822 , p. 234-247 .
  • Werner Weber, Werner Hardmeier: Regionalverkehr Mittelland; Volume 1: Emmental Railway, Burgdorf – Thun Railway. Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2000, ISBN 3-907579-20-8 .
  • Werner Weber, Werner Hardmeier, Jürg Aeschlimann: Regionalverkehr Mittelland; Volume 2: Emmental – Burgdorf – Thun Railway. Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2002, ISBN 3-907579-23-2 .
  • Christian Siposs: Transparent addresses. without publisher, Jegenstorf 2007.
  • Werner Weber, Jürg Suter: Solothurn – Münster Railway. Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2008, ISBN 978-3-907579-28-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Schuppli: The United Huttwil Railways. Minirex, Luzern 1989, ISBN 3-907014-03-0 , page 68
  2. ↑ Un train déraille: im mort, 7 blessés. (Le Temps - archives historiques) Gazette de Lausanne, September 5, 1949, p. 5 , accessed November 16, 2013 (French).
  3. ^ Une deuxième victime dans l'accident de Heimberg. (Le Temps - archives historiques) Gazette de Lausanne, September 7, 1949, p. 5 , accessed November 16, 2013 (French).
  4. ^ Franz Eberhard, Hansruedi Gonzenbach: Fascination Ae 3/6 II . MFO - express train locomotive of the SBB: The original and its replicas (=  Loki-Spezial ). Fachpresse Zürich, Zürich 2004, ISBN 3-9522945-1-9 , p. 82 .