Glattalbahn

This article describes the tram network of the Glattal public transport company ; for the former railway company (railway line Wallisellen-Uster-Rüti-Rapperswil) see Glatthalbahn .

Glattalbahn
Cobra tram in the corporate design of VBG
Route length:	12.7 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	600  =
Dual track :	Yes
VBZ from Bucheggplatz Oerlikon station VBZ from Milchbuck Stars Oerlikon Oerlikon Ost train station VBZ to Seebach Fair / Hallenstadion Property border VBZ / VBG Leutschenbach Oerlikerhus Glattpark Television studio Auzelg 3rd stage to Stettbach Lindberghplatz Stilt / Margarethen Glattbrugg railway station Bäuler Unterriet Balsberg Viaduct Kloten Balsberg Balsberg Viaduct Zurich Airport Zurich airport, freight Option Ringbahn Hardwald 3rd stage to Stettbach Herti Belair Wallisellen station Wallisellen viaduct Smooth Wallisellen viaduct New good To water Ring meadows Ownership limit VBG / VBZ Stettbach station VBZ according to Milchbuck

Zurich tram line 10 in the direction of Zurich main station

The Glattalbahn (originally Stadtbahn Glattal ) is a meter-gauge tram infrastructure project in the north of the city of Zurich and in the northern suburbs in the Glatttal . The route is part of the Zurich tram and connects urban districts 11 and 12 as well as the communities of Opfikon / Glattbrugg , Rümlang , Wallisellen , Dübendorf , Kloten and, in a further step, Bassersdorf better to the public transport network of the city of Zurich.

Verkehrsbetriebe Glattal (VBG) is the concessionaire and owner of the infrastructure of the light rail . Among other things, the Glattalbahn is to connect Zurich main station via Oerlikon - a center in the Glattal - with Zurich Airport . For this purpose, the Glattalbahn was built in such a way that it was connected to the rail network of the Zurich Transport Authority (VBZ) and the rolling stock is compatible. The VBG commissioned the VBZ with the operation of the Glattalbahn.

stretch

Messe / Hallenstadion – Glattpark – Auzelg (stage 1)

From September 2004 to November 2006 a connection to tram line 11 of the VBZ was built. From the new junction at the Messe / Hallenstadion stop , the route leads out of town on the median of Thurgauerstrasse via the Leutschenbach junction to the Glattpark junction (originally Ambassador ), where it turns east and leads north past the television studio to the Auzelg loop . The systems were accepted by the VBG on October 11, 2006. Test operation began on October 16, under the direction of VBZ. On the basis of the acceptance and trial operation by the VBZ, the VBG were granted the definitive operating license by the Federal Office of Transport (FOT) on November 29, 2006 .

business

Contrary to initial plans (separate "Line B"), the first stage will be served by the extended tram line 11 of the VBZ. Commissioning took place at the timetable change on December 10, 2006. Trams of the types Be 4/6 "Tram 2000" and Be 5/6 "Cobra" of the VBZ are used. In the medium term, the aim is to use half the Cobra trams and half the Tram 2000.

The normal timetable for the city of Zurich applies on the new route : every 7.5 minutes during the day, every 10 minutes in the evening and on Sundays, and every 15 minutes in the off-peak hours.

For the first time since 1956 there are tram stops that are served by the VBZ (just outside the city of Zurich, in the area of ​​the municipality of Opfikon and thus, more precisely, also outside the tariff zone of the city of Zurich; the entire Glattpark – Auzelg section was therefore set as the tariff zone boundary on which tickets from both adjacent tariff zones are valid.

In order to avoid parallel traffic, three bus routes were revised when the tram went into operation; the end point of line 45 was placed from the old Auzelg stop (new Auzelg Ost ) in front of the SRZ training center Rohwiesen , which means that part of the Auzelg settlement has lost the direct connection to Oerlikon station and has to accept longer walking distances. Line 788 (Oerlikon-TMC station), which was only operated in the load direction at peak times, was shut down. Line 781 took over its task in the rush hour with additional direct trips (as line E781) between Oerlikon station and the new Earthartstrasse stop , right next to the houses on the first stage of the Glattpark.

Glattpark - Freight Airport (Stage 2)

In September 2006, the second stage of the Glattalbahn was tackled, and it went into operation on December 14, 2008. The groundbreaking took place on October 27th. A route was created from the Glattpark junction north to the airport . For the first time, the section also includes two large engineering structures with correspondingly high construction costs.

The route continues from the Glattpark stop along Thurgauerstrasse to the north to Stelze . Here the stilt tunnel crosses the Oerlikon – Airport and Oerlikon – Kloten railway lines. From Glattbrugg station, the Glattalbahn briefly follows the Oerlikon – Oberglatt railway line and then follows Flughafenstrasse (individual traffic has been relocated to Birchstrasse) to the north. The Balsberg Viaduct begins at the southern edge of the airport area and, due to lack of space, leads the Glattalbahn above Flughafenstrasse at the level of the embankment on the Oerlikon – Kloten line - a stop on the viaduct provides the connection via a passerelle that runs parallel to the embankment over the A51 motorway to Balsberg train station . In the further course to the airport, the Glattalbahn reaches street level again and reaches the bus station at Zurich Airport , which was built as part of the fifth airport construction phase . From there it goes east to the final stop at Airport Freight . This turning loop was designed so that an extension to Kloten and Bassersdorf can be set up relatively easily at a later date.

At the same time as the VBG, between the end of 2007 and mid-2008, the VBZ built a nearly 500-meter-long tram route that branches off the Oerlikon – Seebach tram route and leads via the Binzmühlestrasse to the Leutschenbach junction .

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Originally planned as the new "Line A", the VBZ tram line 10 ( Hauptbahnhof - Bhf. Oerlikon ) has been running since December 14, 2008 from Sternen Oerlikon to the station Oerlikon Ost , where it branches off the existing tram route and goes east via the new VBZ tram route leads to the Leutschenbach junction . With line 11, it divides the route of the first stage on the section up to the Glattpark junction and takes over the route of the second stage to the airport.

The VBZ were also commissioned to operate the second stage. At the request of VBG, only Cobra trams will be used on line 10 to the Glattal , in the new corporate design of VBG. For a long time, other points of the final operating concept had not been fully clarified, for example the cycle pattern aimed for by the VBG (on the new line with main traffic every 7.5 minutes, otherwise every 15 minutes) did not correspond to the urban cycle timetable at that time, which, however, was self-evident was unnecessary because the ITR in December 2008 changed their regular timetable so far as to HRT , the trams will run every 7.5 minutes. The open questions were also directly related to the Zurich West tram , which is scheduled to go into operation in December 2011 and will also affect line 10.

Auzelg – Bahnhof Stettbach (stage 3)

Construction site of the third stage between Wallisellen and Glattzentrum (2009)

Glattalbahn near Wallisellen Glattzentrum railway station (2011)

From the terminus of the existing tram line 7 in Stettbach , a line leads to the Auzelg loop . From there it runs on the route of the extended line 11 to Glattpark and then on the route of the extended line 10 in the direction of airport freight . This line was given the number 12, in the original planning the designation "Line C" was used.

Construction on this section began on July 10, 2008, shortly before the completion of the second phase. Completion took place in September 2010, commissioning took place after a test phase together with the timetable change on December 12, 2010.

The centerpiece of this third stage is the route in the area of ​​the municipality of Wallisellen: After the Neugut station , a 1209 m long viaduct runs under the A1 motorway , then reaches the Glatt station , which has been built on a high level and which opens up the shopping center of the same name as well as the Richti area . From there the viaduct continues to Wallisellen station , bridging the SBB railway line.

Options

"Hardwald Ringbahn"

An extension of the Glattalbahn from the terminus at the airport freight to the Bassersdorf train station is planned. The route should lead along the Altbach through the center of Kloten and branch off in the industrial area onto Steinackerstrasse, on which it continues to the industrial area Grindel in Bassersdorf. After crossing the village center, the route then leads to the train station.

The complete closure of the ring around the Hardwald by means of a connection from the Bassersdorf train station to the Neugut stop in Dübendorf ( Bassersdorf train station - Dietlikon train station - Dietlikon industry - Wangen - Dübendorf airport - Neugut) is another option for which the corresponding route will be kept free.

The first stage in the period after 2019 is the route from the airport to Kloten Industrie.

Tram extensions

Possible extensions of the VBZ tram lines are closely related to the Glattalbahn. As a result of the regional traffic conference Glattal, extensions of tram lines 7 (to Dübendorf Nord station and later to Wangen ) and 9 (to Glattzentrum and later Dietlikon Süd station ) are entered in the cantonal structure plan , which would also use the Glattalbahn routes. Due to the population and traffic forecasts, however, there is no need for this until 2025, which is why there are currently neither concrete plans nor license applications for the corresponding routes.

Infrastructure

depot

In the original planning, a depot in the Oberhauserriet / Glattpark area was planned for the Glattalbahn. This was deleted as part of the revisions. The VBZ were entrusted with the entire operation of the Glattalbahn infrastructure. The problem of accommodating the vehicles was transferred to the VBZ.

The additional vehicle demand could be met by redeeming existing order options for Cobra trams that VBZ had concluded with Bombardier Transportation at the end of 2005 . However, since these vehicles were only delivered after the ongoing delivery of the first main series had been completed, the additional demand had to be met from the company's own stock for the time being. As a result, the “Mirage Trams” intended for scrapping remained in use until June 2010 for much longer than planned.

The Oerlikon tram depot was expanded to accommodate the vehicles for the Glattalbahn ; it is the only one of the five VBZ depots located in the Glattal, and only this depot enables relatively short travel times to the operational area. The depot hall was expanded to include four new sidings and the infrastructure was adapted in order to be able to maintain the Cobra trams. Construction started in 2010.

Nodes

The central hub of the Glattalbahn is the Glattpark stop on the outskirts of Zurich and Glattbrugg, which is served by the extended lines 10 and 11 as well as the new line 12.

The Leutschenbach junction (originally Airgate ) was also created as part of the first stage. It was completed by the VBZ as part of the second stage and connected to the Oerlikon – Seebach tram line at the Oerlikon Ost station.

The airport, Balsberg , Glattbrugg and Wallisellen train stations , which were previously only accessible by buses, were given stops in the Glattalbahn network. The Oerlikon and Stettbach stations , which were already served by tram lines, are now served by lines that run on the Glattalbahn network.

Legal status as pure local traffic

The Glattalbahn (tram line 10) is a route with purely local traffic in the sense of Swiss legislation , as it runs parallel to existing regional railway lines. For this reason, Article 9, Paragraph 2 of the Timetable Ordinance can apply. This releases the operator from the obligation to publish a timetable in which the exact traffic time can be seen for each composition. The publication of the line names and the operating times is sufficient for this (which is fulfilled with the announcement in the timetable field 70,000).

See also

• Historic Glatthalbahn Wallisellen – Uster (1856–1857)
• Swiss railway projects: Zurich region

Web links

Commons : Glattalbahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Glattal transport company
• Glattalbahn Seitenblicke

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page of the Glattalbahn: Construction of the third stage - Elaborate routing at the Glattzentrum Viaduct (accessed on February 1, 2014)
2. ↑ Routing laid down for the Kloten-Bassersdorf Glattalbahn , media release from the Office of Transport on the website of the Canton of Zurich, December 9, 2010, accessed on February 21, 2017.
3. ↑ Glattalbahn: Canton wants to be extended from 2019
4. ↑ Eisenbahn Amateur 04/2009, page 182