Arth Rigi Railway
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Railcar shortly before Rigi-Kulm
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Map of the Arth-Rigi-Bahn, the valley railway line has been discontinued
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Timetable field : | 602 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 8.55 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 1500 = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maximum slope : | 201 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minimum radius : | 120 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rack system : | Riggenbach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Arth-Rigi line ( ARB ) is a Swiss standard gauge - cog railway which of Arth-Goldau to Rigi leads. Together with the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB), which reaches the mountain from the other side, it has formed the Rigi-Bahnen AG (RB) company since 1992 .
history
When the Schwyz citizens heard of Arth that a railway was to be built on the Rigi from the Lucerne side, they received the concession for the Schwyz route between Staffelhöhe and Rigi Kulm, as well as between Arth, Oberarth and Kulm, from the Schwyz Cantonal Council in 1870. They commissioned the two engineers Zschokke and Riggenbach to build the same. Arther Aktiengesellschaft immediately started building the Staffelhöhe to Rigi Kulm ( 1752 m above sea level ). In the summer of 1873 the disused Lucerne Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn took over this route and until the merger in 1992 had to pay a rent for the use of the Staffelhöhe – Rigi Kulm rail line.
In 1873 the track construction from Goldau ( 518 m above sea level ) via Kräbel and Klösterli ( 1315 m above sea level ) to the Staffel began and in 1874 the section Arth-Oberarth-Goldau was tackled. On June 4, 1875, the Arth-Rigi Railway was able to start operating along the entire route. It had lost the race against the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn, but it shone with the wonderful view on the route and with the more luxurious cars. In 1928 the mountain railway also started winter operations between Goldau and Rigi-Kulm.
The standard-gauge line originally began in Arth on the banks of Lake Zug . This valley railway, an adhesion railway, going to the Arth-Goldau station, was separated from the rack railway in 1881 and run separately, but a track connection was retained. In 1959, this branch was shut down and the track system dismantled. With a gradient of 66 ‰, the line was one of the steepest standard-gauge railways in Switzerland.
On October 20, 1885, after a broken axle, a train crashed below the Kräbel station over the embankment. The train driver lost his life and nine people were injured. → Section accident of the H 1/2 4 and conversion in article ARB H 1/2
Initially, most of the passengers traveled to Lake Zug by ship. From 1882 the platforms of the ARB were parallel to those of the Gotthardbahn on the station forecourt. However, when the latter required more and more space for the Zug route in 1897, the ARB created the characteristic wrought-iron high platform that ran across the tracks. Now the majority of ARB passengers traveled by train. From 2011 to 2013, a new, double-track railway station was built in front of the high platform, and the listed platform was converted into an entrance hall. Originally, the introduction of a new train station parallel to the SBB line was also considered, but this had to be discarded because the SBB needed more space in this area due to the NEAT.
On May 1, 1907, the ARB was converted to electric traction as the world's first standard-gauge rack railway. The valley station of the aerial cableway to Rigi Scheidegg ( 1568 m above sea level ) is located in the Kräbel , and was previously reached by the narrow-gauge Rigi-Kaltbad-Scheidegg-Bahn (RSB), which was broken off in 1942 .
On June 3, 2000, the Arth-Rigi-Bahn celebrated its 125th anniversary with a steam festival.
On the night of January 19-20, 2014, the high platform at Arth-Goldau station was raised by two meters so that it could be renovated on site. After this renovation, it was lowered again by 1.3 m. In July 2017, the new station concourse in the high platform went into operation and the temporary stops were closed. In the same year, the rectifier system in Klösterli was replaced by a more modern, higher output.
Electrical system
Systems for electrical operation: | 2 rectifier stations |
Three-phase supply: | 15 kV / 50 Hz |
Traction energy direct current: | 1 '500 V |
Rectifier station performance: | 3 '550 kW |
speed
electr. Locomotives on the ascent: | 21 km / h |
Descent (0–144 ‰): | 17 km / h |
Descent (145–200 ‰): | 14 km / h |
Travel time Goldau – Rigi Kulm: | 35 minutes |
Capacity: | 1,000 people / h |
Rolling stock
- 4 electric shuttle trains 508 kW (No. 11-14)
- 1 electric shuttle train 824 kW (No. 15)
- 1 electric railcar 390 kW (No. 6) , test run: August 30, 1911 , oldest still operational electric rack-and-pinion railcar in the world, last general overhaul: 1990
- 1 electric railcar 448 kW (No. 7)
- 1 electric locomotive with electric snow blower 448 kW (No. 8)
- 4 passenger cars
- 10 freight wagons, company vehicles, snow plow, etc.
Former rolling stock
- H 1/2 , the cogwheel steam locomotives for the mountain route
- E 3/3 No. 11 , the steam locomotive for the valley section
Trivia
- A rascal prank was carried out on the last trip on the valley railway in 1959 : At the Harmettlen stop, the tracks were rubbed with grease so that the trip had to be ended there.
- The Mühlefluhtunnel the roller coaster was up to his recruitment with a height of about 6 meters the highest railway tunnel in Europe.
- For several years now there have been repeated considerations to replace the ARB with a cable car.
literature
- Florian Inäbnit: Rigi-Bahnen; Arth – Rigi cog railway . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2000, ISBN 3-907579-18-6 .
- Sandro Sigrist: Arth – Goldau valley railway . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 1998, ISBN 3-907579-08-9 .
Web links
- Rigi-Bahnen AG
- Arth-Rigi-Bahn on the ETHorama platform
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Arth - Rigi Bahn (ARB). Arth am See - Arth-Goldau In: discontinued-bahnen.ch by Jürg Ehrbar, accessed on June 13, 2020
- ^ Walter Trüb: The steepest railways in Switzerland . In: Railway amateur . No. 9 , 1955, pp. 276 .
- ↑ Raising the Rigi-Bahn-Hochperrons went smoothly
Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 55 " N , 8 ° 32 ′ 52" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-four thousand two hundred seventy-nine / 211437