Port Railway Switzerland

Hafenbahn Schweiz AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	2010
Seat	Birsfelden , Switzerland
management	Hans-Peter Hadorn ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) Florian Röthlingshöfer (Delegate of the Board of Directors)
Branch	Rail transport
Website	port-of-switzerland.ch

The port railway Switzerland AG (HBsAg) is a licensed Swiss railway company, which as a standard gauge freight railroad, the Basel Rhine ports to the rail network connects. The company, which was founded in December 2010, took over the Port Railway of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft (HBL) and the Port Railway of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (HBS) on January 1, 2011 .

overview

The port railway Switzerland AG is a subsidiary founded in 2008 public institution Swiss Rhine ports , and a railway infrastructure company which owns and operates the port railway facilities Kleinhüningen ( Canton Basel-Stadt ) and Birsfelden / Muttenz-Au ( Basel-Country ), together with the associated access routes from Basel Bad RB or Basel SBB RB . The port railway facilities consist of around 50 kilometers of tracks on which around 4 million tons of goods are transported annually; this corresponds to two thirds of the goods handled in the Swiss Rhine ports.

HBSAG does not have an independent management, but falls under the responsibility of the areas and port railway division of the Swiss Rhine ports. SBB Infrastructure takes care of the operational operation and maintenance of the port railway facilities based on a management contract with HBSAG. The majority of the port railway traffic is handled by SBB Cargo , in 2013 the proportion was 95 percent.

history

Rheinhafen St. Johann in 1919

At the beginning of the last century, industrialization increased the demand for coal and raw materials for the chemical industry . In 1911 the Rhine port of St. Johann was put into operation and connected to the Alsace Railway . The Rheinhafen Kleinhüningen , completed in 1922, is connected to the Badischer Bahnhof and thus to the German Rhine Valley Railway . Between 1937 and 1940, the port facilities in Birsfelden and Muttenz were built in the Basel landscape . All three port facilities have been connected to the rail network and are accessible by block trains .

With the merger of the ports of the two half-cantons, the Swiss Rhine ports were created in 2008 . Hafenbahn Schweiz is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Swiss Rhine ports and was created in 2011 through the takeover of the port railways of the cantons of Basel-Landschaft (HBL) and Basel-Stadt (HBS).

Kleinhüningen port railway

Kleinhüningen port railway
Route length:	2.18 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	38  ‰
Legend Basel connecting railway Hochrheinbahn from Constance Wiesentalbahn from Zell im Wiesental Basel Tram (Riehenstrasse) -0.02 Basel Bad Bf 262.6  m above sea level M. Meadow Rheintalbahn to Mannheim 1.90 Basel Bad Rbf (size L) 258.1  m above sea level M. DUSS - Terminal Basel - Weil am Rhein 2.16 BEV / HBSAG property limit Sidings harbor basin II Meadow Sidings harbor basin I east 4.01 Basel Kleinhüningen harbor 248.4  m above sea level M. 4.37 Sidings harbor basin I West 4.56 Uferstrasse (closed) 4.88

The Kleinhüningen port station was completed in 1926. The port facilities at Klybeck-Quai are still under construction.

Since 1922, the port railway has been connecting the Rheinhafen Kleinhüningen on the right bank of the Rhine to the marshalling yard of the Baden station in Weil am Rhein , Germany. The port railway network includes the electrified access to the port area in Kleinhüningen from the DB - Upper Rhine route Basel-Karlsruhe . The facilities include the main line of the port railway with a length of 2176 meters, 33,847 meters of side tracks and around 200 switches.

In 2012, 1.5 million tons of goods were transported on the Kleinhüninger Hafenbahn with 5,300 trains. Many trains consist of wagons with different goods for various destinations, which are then sorted in the Muttenz marshalling yard .

Birsfelden harbor railway

Birsfelden harbor railway
Route length:	3.03 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	12  ‰
Legend from Basel SBB RB II 0.01 Basel SBB RB Nordkopf 278.1  m above sea level M. to Basel SBB GB and Basel SBB PB Connecting train to Basel Bad Bf Port Railway I (91 m) 2.01 Sidings Birsfelden Industry 2.16 Sidings at Birsfelden Hafen 2.16 Birsfelden harbor 258.7  m above sea level M. 2.49 Sidings Muttenz Auhafen 3.82 Basel Auhafen 259  m above sea level M.

Birsfelden port station under construction around 1935

The approximately 3 kilometer long Birsfelden port railway connects the ports of Birsfelden and Muttenz-Au with the Muttenz marshalling yard, built in 1933 . The single-track line was later electrified. The systems consist of the 3,028 meter long mainline track from the Muttenz marshalling yard to the port areas of Birsfelden and Muttenz-Au, 24,523 meters of side tracks and 149 points.

In 2012, 8,700 trains ran on the Birsfelden port railway, transporting 3.2 million tons of goods. Many mineral oil block trains have their starting point in the Auhafen and are guided directly to their destination without additional shunting.

In order to avoid capacity bottlenecks and create a redundant connection to the standard gauge network, the groundbreaking ceremony for the so-called “south connection Auhafen-Schweizerhalle” took place in mid-2017. The approximately 900-meter-long, single-track connecting line will largely be laid out in an open-pit tunnel and will connect the Auhafen along the edge of the Hardwald and under the Rheinfelderstrasse with the Schweizerhalle siding . The latter is used to close the ring with the Muttenz marshalling yard. The commissioning of the southern connection is planned for the end of 2020.

How the port railways work

How the port railways work
Legend Pull-out Head- track route Procedure- mountain A-/ exit directional group Quai - Quay tracks tracks

The Quaigleise, here in the Kleinhüningen harbor, are always three-lane.

Electrically operated trains of up to 600 meters in length arrive at the entrance and exit groups of the port station with a signal train. There the groups of wagons or individual wagons are sorted over a pull-out track and a drainage mountain . The quays are always systematically equipped with three tracks. The first track is used for shunting to operate the various port companies, the second is used by the port companies for shunting and bypassing and the third track is the actual transshipment track. The many crossings of the Quaigleise come from earlier, when short two-axle freight wagons were still in use. There is also in the docks a variety of sidings to various port companies.

swell

• Port of Switzerland. Port railway. In: Internet site of the Swiss Rhine ports. Retrieved April 15, 2017 . 
• Daniel Haller: The port of Basel would not function without the port railway. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung. July 24, 2013, accessed April 15, 2017 . 
• Florian Röthlingshöfer: The port railway connects the Swiss rail network with the oceans. (PDF; 1.4 MB) ETR Swiss, April 2015, pp. 61–66 , accessed on April 15, 2017 . 
• Hans G. Wägli: Swiss rail network and Swiss rail profile CH + . AS Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-909111-74-9 .
• The Basel Rhine port near Kleinhüningen . Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 70 (1917), Issue 16 (E-Periodica.ch, PDF 4.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Daniel Haller: Without the port railway, the port of Basel would not function. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung . July 24, 2013, accessed February 28, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Groundbreaking of the Auhafen-Schweizerhalle port railway. Swiss Rhine ports, June 13, 2017, accessed on March 1, 2019 .