Huttwil – Eriswil railway line

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Huttwil – Eriswil
Route length: 4.9 km
Route - straight ahead
BLS (ex LHB ) from Langenthal
   
ETB (ex RSHB ) by Sumiswald- Grün
Station, station
Huttwil
   
BLS (ex HWB ) to Wolhusen
   
1.1 saw
   
Langete
   
2.3 Uech
   
3.1 Tschäppel
   
Langete
   
4.9 Eriswil

The Huttwil – Eriswil railway was an electrified local railway in Oberaargau , Switzerland , which was laid out as a branch line and ran from Huttwil to Eriswil . The line was operated from 1915 to 1926 by the Huttwil – Eriswil Railway , or HEB for short . This became part of the Langenthal-Huttwil Railway from 1927 (and of the United Huttwil Railway from 1944 ). Passenger traffic was replaced by buses in 1975 and freight traffic ceased in 1978. The route can still be seen in some places.

Former route

The HEB opened up three intermediate stops between Huttwil and Eriswil. Coming from the Huttwil train station, it shared about a kilometer with the Huttwil – Wolhusen line, which still exists today . The HEB left its route at the Säge stop. Following approximately the Langete river and the road, it then served the Uech and Tschäppel stops. With an incline of a maximum of 2.8%, the route finally led to Eriswil.

The route was 4.9 km long, 4.0 km were owned by the HEB.

history

Eriswil station in 1965

After it was clear that the planned Ramsei – Sumiswald – Huttwil railway would not run via Eriswil, it was decided to build a branch line from Huttwil to Eriswil. In Huttwil, connections to Sumiswald and Ramsei were possible. Operations started in 1915. An agreement was signed with the neighboring Langenthal-Huttwil-Bahn (LHB), which entrusted them with the maintenance of the track and rolling stock. The HEB struggled with financial difficulties from the beginning, which made a merger with the LHB an issue. For the latter, however, the merger was not particularly attractive. The merger became a fact in 1927. After another merger with neighboring railways , the line to Eriswil belonged to the United Huttwil Railways from 1944 .

The locomotives initially designed by SLM were CFZm 1/3 steam railcars (same design as CFZm 1/3 of the Régional Saignelégier – Glovelier RSG), supplemented by three SIG freight cars .

The line was electrified in 1946 with the 15 kV 16⅔ Hz common in Switzerland. A single railcar was often sufficient for passenger transport, while shunting tractors were used for freight transport . Because the automobile was increasingly competing with the already poorly used local railway, passenger transport was discontinued in 1975. Freight traffic was also discontinued in 1978 and the line was broken off shortly afterwards, except for a short distance after the junction from the Huttwil – Wolhusen railway line, which was used as a connection to a sawmill until the 1980s. Other preserved objects are the train station and a locomotive shed in Eriswil, as well as the two concrete bridges over the Langete.

Today the BLS AG bus line 491 runs between Huttwil and Eriswil .

literature

  • Otto Schuppli: The United Huttwil Railways. Minirex Verlag 1989

Individual evidence

  1. Schuppli, Otto: The United Huttwil Railways . Minirex, Luzern 1989, p. 10 .
  2. Schuppli, Otto: The United Huttwil Railways . Minirex, Luzern 1989, p. 20-21, 66-70 .
  3. Huttwil-Eriswil. In: discontinued tracks. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
  4. HEB CFZm 1/3 (photo: Arthur Meyer archive). In: The digital railway photo archive. Retrieved February 21, 2014 .
  5. Huttwil-Eriswil. In: discontinued railways in Switzerland. Retrieved February 21, 2014 .