Jura footline

Olten – Lausanne
ICN passing through Twann
Timetable field :	210 (Biel / Bienne – Lausanne) 410 (Olten – Biel / Bienne)
Route length:	231.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Legend from Basel , from Aarau 39.2 Olten 396  m above sea level M. to Bern , to Lucerne Aare Bridge Olten Hammer (135 m) 40.6 Olten Hammer 403 m above sea level M. 43.0 Wangen near Olten 417 m. ü M. 45.3 Hägendorf 427 m above sea level M. 49.1 Egerkingen 435 m above sea level M. 51.4 Oberbuchsiten 442 m above sea level M. OeBB von Balsthal-Klus 56.6 Oensingen 462 m above sea level M. 58.8 Niederbipp 468 m above sea level M. to Solothurn and Melchnau Aare Bridge Wangen (96 m) 64.3 Cheeks on the Aare 422 m above sea level M. 67.6 Deitingen 429 m above sea level M. 70.3 Luterbach - Attisholz 429 m above sea level M. Expansion of the Solothurn – Wanzwil line 73.8 Solothurn 431 m above sea level M. to Niederbipp , Bern and Burgdorf formerly to Lyss Aare Bridge Solothurn (104 m) 74.7 Solothurn West 432 m above sea level M. Weissenstein Line to Moutier ( BLS ) 75.7 Solothurn Allmend 443 m above sea level M. 76.7 Bellach 443 m above sea level M. 77.6 Bellach 429 m above sea level M. 77.6 Bellach industry 80.6 Selzach 438 m above sea level M. 82.8 Bed laugh 440 m above sea level M. 85.3 Grenchen south 440 m above sea level M. Mösliviadukt (285 m) 88.0 Jural line from Basel 88.0 Lengnau BE 439 m above sea level M. 90.2 Pieterlen 435 m above sea level M. 94.0 Biel / Bienne Bözingenfeld / Champs-de-Boujean 444 m above sea level M. 95.8 Biel Mett junction to Biel RB 96.2 Biel Mett 443 m above sea level M. 98.0 Connection curve to Bern 99.4 104.5 Biel / Bienne 437 m above sea level M. to Bern , Neuchâtel , Sonceboz and Ins Vingelz tunnel (2432 m) 99.8 Tüscherz 434 m above sea level M. 96.0 Twann 433 m above sea level M. 94.0 Ligerz 434 m above sea level M. 93.7 Chavannes Beginning of the double track 90.0 La Neuveville 433 m above sea level M. 87.7 Le Landeron 437 m above sea level M. 85.5 Cressier NE 436 m above sea level M. 83.6 Cornaux 435 m above sea level M. St-Blaise tunnel (155 m) 85.5 Saint Blaise CFF 464 m above sea level M. BLS from Kerzers 75.3 Neuchâtel 479 m above sea level M. 73.6 to Le Locle Route-de-France tunnel (58 m) 72.3 Neuchâtel-Serrières 437 m above sea level M. 70.3 Auvernier 492 m above sea level M. to Pontarlier 67.6 Colombier NE 490 m above sea level M. 66.3 Boudry 491 m above sea level M. 62.3 Bevaix 489 m above sea level M. 58.1 Gorgier - St-Aubin 451 m above sea level M. Upgraded line St-Aubin-Sauges tunnel (2252 m) 54.8 Vaumarcus 447 m above sea level M. La Raisse Tunnel (1245 m) Fin-de-Lance tunnel (286 m) 50.7 Concise 430 m above sea level M. Concise tunnel (365 m) 47.5 Onnens - Bonvillars 435 m above sea level M. 42.7 Grandson 437 m above sea level M. Thièle Bridge Yverdon (79 m) 39.1 Yverdon-les-Bains S 1 S 11 434 m above sea level M. TRAVYS to Ste-Croix to Payerne 32.7 Ependes 440 m above sea level M. 29.6 Essert-Pittet 438 m above sea level M. 27.4 Chavornay 447 m above sea level M. TRAVYS by Orbe 24.9 Bavois 442 m above sea level M. Nord-de-Mormont tunnel (182 m) Sud-de-Mormont tunnel (302 m) 21.4 Eclépens 455 m above sea level M. 20.2 Industrial tracks SBB from Vallorbe S 2 19.3 Daillens 445 m above sea level M. 19.0 to the post-logistics center 19.0 from the Post-Logistic Center 14.4 Cossonay 428 m above sea level M. Cossonay Gare – Ville funicular 11.0 Vufflens-la-Ville 406 m above sea level M. 10.0 Industrial tracks 6.9 14.9 Bussigny 407 m above sea level M. Poimboeuf bridge right / left (64/71 m) Bridge Poudrière III (216 m) 13.2 7.3 Lécheires service station Larges-Pièces Bridge (106 m) 4.5 Renens 416 m above sea level M. 0.0 Lausanne S 1 S 2 S 11 447 m above sea level M. Connection to Bern and Brig Route to Geneva

As the Jura foothills line or Jurasüdfusslinie is called the Swiss railway line that from Olten along the eponymous Jurasüdfusses about Solothurn - Grenchen - Biel / Bienne - Neuchâtel - Yverdon-les-Bains to Morges and on to Geneva leads.

It is an important west-east connection in Switzerland, although the railway line in Ligerz is only single-track. This leads to major problems , especially with regional trains . The expansion on two lanes between Twann and Ligerz with the Ligerz tunnel is included in the expansion step 2025 of the FABI project , the financing of which was decided in 2014.

There is also the Mittellandlinie , Switzerland's most important west-east connection, which connects the city of Olten to Morges via Langenthal - Burgdorf , Bern , Friborg and Lausanne .

Because of the winding route on Lake Neuchâtel, the southern Jura foot line is used by tilting trains.

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  ICN - tilting train on Lake Neuchâtel near Vaumarcus

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  ICN at Essert-Pittet

history

Station Yverdon-les-Bains , right train of narrow- Yverdon-Ste-Croix railway (YSteC)

Niederbipp train station , on the left is a railcar of the Solothurn-Niederbipp-Bahn (SNB)

Solothurn train station , in the back left a train on the platform of the regional traffic Bern – Solothurn (RBS)

Neuchâtel railway station

The continuous Jura footline was implemented in several stages.

The oldest section is the Yverdon-les-Bains - Bussigny - Renens - Morges line, opened by the Compagnie de l'Ouest Suisse (OS) in 1855 . In 1856 the connecting curve Bussigny – Morges followed and in 1858 it was possible to drive from Morges along Lake Geneva to Geneva . 1859 was followed by the piece Yverdon Vaumarcus and society Franco-Suisse (FS) opened the continuation of Vaumarcus by Frienisberg , a makeshift station and harbor at Le Landeron at Lake Biel where by sea to connect to in 1858 built station in Nidau was .

From the other side, the Swiss Central Railway (SCB) opened the line from Olten via Herzogenbuchsee to Solothurn and along the southern foot of the Jura to Biel . Today the old route from Herzogenbuchsee to Solothurn is part of the upgraded Solothurn – Wanzwil line . In 1858 the SCB built a short stretch from Biel station to Nidau ​​am Bielersee, from where there was a connection by sea to the provisional station in Frienisberg near Landeron, which was built in 1859. When, in 1860, the gap along the northern shore of Lake Biel from Biel to Landeron was closed by the Swiss Ostwestbahn (OWB) company, the SCB closed the short stretch from Biel to Nidau ​​on December 10, 1860.

By closing the gap on December 3, 1860, it was possible for the first time to cross Switzerland entirely by rail from the east ( St. Margrethen ) to the west ( Geneva ); because of the different railway companies you had to change trains a few times.

As the last section of the Jura foot line, SCB opened the line from Olten via Oensingen to Solothurn, also known as the Gäubahn , in December 1876 .

Since the introduction of synchronized timetable railway lines of Switzerland wearing three-digit numbers by the editors of the Swiss official timetable to be determined. All trains on the Lausanne - Cossonay section are listed in timetable field 202 and the entire Jura foot line in field 210.

Accidents

On March 22, 1871, as a result of incorrectly setting the switches at the Franco-Suisse station in Colombier, an extra military train with members of the interned Bourbaki army collided with a parked freight train consisting of 22 coal wagons and a baggage car. A platoon leader and 22 internees died and 72 were injured. This was the worst railway accident in Switzerland to date.

See also : Section “Railway accident of March 22, 1871” in the article on the municipality of Colombier NE

On October 2, 1942, a freight train between Tüscherz and Biel collided with a passenger train . Eleven people died and ten were injured. An overtired engine driver had run over the stop signal. After the accident, the exit signals throughout Switzerland were equipped with Integra-Signum .

See also : Tüscherz railway accident

On December 8, 1978, a locomotive driver died near Vaumarcus when he was driving a freight train onto another freight train standing in front of a signal. There was great damage to property. Around 100,000 liters of liquid bitumen flowed out of two cars and some of them ended up in Lake Neuchâtel .

On August 4, 2007, two BLS freight trains each with two multi- controlled Re 4/4 collided head-on in the Biel marshalling yard . A train driver was injured; there was great property damage. Due to construction work, the freight trains at Biel Mett were diverted via the marshalling yard. One of the engine drivers had no knowledge of the route in the marshalling yard.

On April 25, 2015, the last six wagons of a Basel RB - Lausanne-Triage freight train derailed near the former Daillens station . Several tank wagons tipped down the embankment after about 500 meters. A good 20 tons of concentrated sulfuric acid leaked from one of the cars and seeped into the ground. The employees at the nearby post office package center were evacuated. The tracks, overhead lines and the signal box in Daillens were badly damaged. A leaf spring and a wheelset bearing were found in front of the scene of the accident , which apparently came from the third from last car of the train.

References and comments

1. ↑ Platoon leader and 22 internees dead, 72 injured: In: Paul Winter: Schweizer Bahnen unter Fahnen . The history of the military railroad service. Minirex, Luzern 1988, ISBN 3-907014-02-2 , p. 26 . 24 dead including train driver: In: Walter Moser: The railway accident in Colombier. (PDF 0.4 MB) Yearbook for Solothurn History, Volume 70 (1997), p. 384 , accessed on January 10, 2015 .
    
2. ↑ The collision ferroviaire prés de Vaumarcus est la plus coûteuse des dix dernières années . ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Gazette de Lausanne , December 11, 1978, p. 9; with photo 
3. ↑ Lake Neuchatel gravement pollué . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Gazette de Lausanne , December 12, 1978, p. 8 
4. ↑ Final report of the Accident Investigation Board Railways and Ships on the train collision between trains 68097F and 66966F from BLS Cargo from Saturday, August 4, 2007 in the Biel marshalling yard (pdf)
5. ↑ Freight train derailed with sulfuric acid. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 25, 2015, accessed on May 2, 2015 . 
6. ^ Ralph Pringsheim, Walter von Andrian, Mathias Rellstab: SBB freight train with dangerous goods wagons derailed in Daillens . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 6 . Minirex, 2015, ISSN  1022-7113 , p. 306-308 .