Solothurn train station
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.jpg) Solothurn railway station
In the foreground the Solothurn-Niederbipp-Bahn track and bus stops |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 7th |
| IBNR | 8500207 |
| opening | 4th December 1876 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Solothurn |
| Canton | Solothurn |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 607 886 / 228149 |
| Height ( SO ) | 432 m |
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| List of train stations in Switzerland | |
The Solothurn station is a hub of several normal- and meterspuriger Railroads. It is located in the suburb of Solothurn , Switzerland , near the city limits of Zuchwil .
Solothurn station, originally Neu-Solothurn , is often referred to as Solothurn main station , as a distinction from the older Solothurn West station , which is only a regional train stop today. Although this name is not official, there is also a main station street in Solothurn .
history
On June 1, 1857, the city of Solothurn received its first station for the line of the Swiss Central Railway (SCB) from Olten via Herzogenbuchsee to Solothurn. This station was on the north side of the Aare, although even then the SCB would have preferred a station on the south side of the Aare.
In 1876, the SCB built the Gäubahn from Olten to Solothurn via Oensingen as the last section of the Jura foot line in order to shorten the route to Solothurn and further in the direction of Biel compared to the existing route via Herzogenbuchsee. The management of a train from Olten-Solothurn via Herzogenbuchsee was made even more difficult because it had to take a hairpin there . The Gäubahn was opened on December 4, 1876, although a temporary station building was only available in Solothurn . Due to its location in the suburbs and partly outside the settlement limits of Solothurn, the station was called Neu-Solothurn . This name was given up in 1915, since then the station has only been called Solothurn station.
With the opening of the Neu-Solothurn station, the existing station was renamed Alt-Solothurn ; He kept this designation until the summer of 1915. The SCB had tried to give up the old station, but it did not succeed and would not have made sense since the construction of the Solothurn-Münster Railway (SMB), which opened on August 1, 1908 . The SMB made Alt-Solothurn a branching station, but from the beginning the SMB trains usually ended in what was then New Solothurn. Alt-Solothurn was later renamed Solothurn West , which is the name the station still bears today. Solothurn Stadt also seems to have been in use for a certain period of time , as Solothurn West is located on the old town side of the Aare.
On the opening day of Neu-Solothurn station, on December 4, 1876, both the Gäubahn and the route from Solothurn to Busswil - ( Lyss ) were opened. The route Solothurn- Biberist the Emmental Railway (EB) was put into operation the same day.
The current station building of the Solothurn “Hauptbahnhof” was built between 1884 and 1886. It was probably expanded to include side extensions in 1921. The name change from station Neu-Solothurn to Solothurn station took place in the summer 1915th Since the opening of the ESB in 1916, only the current name has been used.
On April 9, 1916, the meter-gauge line Solothurn-Zollikofen was opened, this ends in the southern part of the station, where a depot was built as early as 1914. The former Electric Narrow Gauge Railway Solothurn – Bern (ESB) became the Solothurn-Zollikofen-Bern-Bahn in 1922 through the merger with the BZB , which in turn has been part of the Bern – Solothurn regional traffic since 1984 . In 1925 the meter-gauge line Solothurn Baseltor – Solothurn was opened. This route of the Solothurn-Niederbipp-Bahn (SNB) ends on the station forecourt. Although the train reached the city of Solothurn on January 9, 1916, it ended at the Baseltor at that time. The SNB has been part of Aare Seeland mobil since 1999 .
The two narrow-gauge railways were operated electrically from the start. Electrical operation on the Biel-Olten line began on December 23, 1927, on the EB on September 1, 1932, on the SMB on October 2, 1932 and on the Busswil-Herzogenbuchsee line on October 3, 1944. All standard gauge lines that touch a train station in Solothurn have been electrified with single-phase alternating current with a voltage of 15,000 volts and a frequency of 16.7 Hertz.
The Herzogenbuchsee-Solothurn line was shut down in 1992, with the Solothurn - Derendingen section today forming a branch of the upgraded Solothurn-Wanzwil line . The unused remaining stretch between Derendingen and Herzogenbuchsee was dismantled. In 1994 the Solothurn- Büren an der Aare line was closed. The overhead contact line was dismantled, the line to Arch from Solothurn is still used as a connecting track. In Büren an der Aare, a buffer stop was permanently installed so that the line can no longer be used continuously, although there are still tracks on the entire line.
The Solothurn West-Solothurn line, with the 104-meter-long Aare Bridge, was the last to have two lanes between Biel and Solothurn on April 8, 1932, and the line to Olten Hammer between 1950 and 1955 (Solothurn-Luterbach-Attisholz May 29, 1954). The first section of the line to Biberist was expanded to double-lane together with the construction of the A5 .
Trivia
On December 22, 2018, Swiss Post closed its branch in the station building. The premises will be taken over by Coop . A postal agency is also to be created there.
Rail routes and transport links
Standard gauge meets in Solothurn:
- the Jura foot line, with the Gäubahn
- the upgraded Solothurn – Wanzwil line or the former Solothurn – Herzogenbuchsee railway line ,
- the Solothurn – Lyss railway via Büren an der Aare, on whose Solothurn-Büren section there is no longer any passenger traffic (switched to bus operation),
- the Solothurn– Burgdorf railway line operated by BLS (former Emmental-Burgdorf-Thun Railway ),
- the Solothurn – Moutier railway line operated by BLS (former Solothurn-Münster Railway)
as well as on meter gauge:
- Bern - Zollikofen - Solothurn of the regional traffic Bern-Solothurn
- Solothurn - Oensingen - Langenthal the Aare Seeland mobile (Solothurn-Niederbipp-Bahn).
There is no track connection between the two meter-gauge lines, the Solothurn-Niederbipp-Bahn ends on Bahnhofplatz.
Solothurn is well connected to the long-distance network of the Swiss Federal Railways every half hour with Intercity tilting trains on Intercity line 5 ( St. Gallen -) Zurich HB - Biel / Bienne - Lausanne / Geneva .
Passenger traffic on the regional lines to the Emmental (Burgdorf), to Bern, Moutier and Niederbipp – Langenthal also follows a tight timetable. The Solothurn train station is also served by several bus routes operated by the Solothurn und Umgebung bus company and Postauto Schweiz AG .
Web links
literature
- Werner Stutz: Railway stations in Switzerland. From the beginning to the First World War. Orell Füssli, Zurich and Schwäbisch Hall 1983. ISBN 3-280-01405-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c SBB newsletter 1/1977 pages 12 + 13 100 years of the Gäubahn
- ↑ Stutz, p. 200
- ↑ The Aare Bridge between Olten Hammer and Olten only became double-lane in the 1990s
- ↑ Andreas Kaufmann: Post clears the field at the main train station - Coop is coming by mid-2019. In: solothurnerzeitung.ch . January 4, 2019, accessed January 4, 2019 .