Mittelthurgau Railway

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Mittelthurgau Railway
MThB control car (Bt 202) with destination Engen
MThB control car (Bt 202) with destination Engen
Timetable field : 830, 835
Route length: 39.58 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope : 24  ‰
Wil – Kreuzlingen
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 SBB- SGAE from Rorschach
   
 SBB- TB from Ebnat-Kappel
Station, station
 0.00 Wil 571  m above sea level M.
Route - straight ahead
 Connection to FW , trolley system
   
Plan-free intersection - below
 SBB- SGAE to Winterthur
Plan-free intersection - below
 FW Wil-Frauenfeld
Stop, stop
 2.58 Bronschhofen 566  m above sea level M.
Stop, stop
 3.33 Bronschhofen AMP 557  m above sea level M.
Station, station
 5.45 Bed meadows 546  m above sea level M.
Stop, stop
 6.71 Tagerschen 532  m above sea level M.
Station, station
 8.22 Tobel - Affeltrangen 511  m above sea level M.
Station, station
 11.25 Märwil 506  m above sea level M.
Stop, stop
 04/14 Oppikon 488  m above sea level M.
Bridge (medium)
 Bussnang 277 m
Station, station
 16.38 Bussnang 444  m above sea level M.
   
 Thur Weinfelden 143 m
Stop, stop
 17.67 Weinfelden South 427  m above sea level M.
   
 SBB route from Winterthur
Station, station
 19.17 Weinfelden 429  m above sea level M.
   
 SBB route to Romanshorn
Station, station
 24.31 Kehlhof 508  m above sea level M.
Bridge (medium)
 Buchtobel 105 m
Station, station
 27.23 mountain 554  m above sea level M.
Station without passenger traffic
 28.75 Altishausen 556  m above sea level M.
Station, station
 30.78 Siegershausen 546  m above sea level M.
Station, station
 33.46 Lengwil 509  m above sea level M.
Bridge (medium)
 Jakobshöhe 119 m
Station, station
 36.25 Kreuzlingen Bernrain 461  m above sea level M.
Bridge (medium)
 Sauloch 105 m
Stop, stop
 38.61 Tägerwilen village 415  m above sea level M.
   
 SBB route from Schaffhausen
Station without passenger traffic
39.58
59.15
Day moss 401  m above sea level M.
Station, station
 60.69 Kreuzlingen 403  m above sea level M.
   
 Routes to Romanshorn , Kreuzlingen
Route - straight ahead
 Hafen (CH) and Konstanz (D)
former logo of the Mittelthurgau Railway

The Mittelthurgau Railway (abbreviated MThB ), based in Weinfelden, was a Swiss private railway. It was liquidated privately in 2003, including its freight subsidiary Lokoop , its activities and infrastructure property were mainly taken over by the SBB subsidiary Thurbo , which was originally supposed to form an alliance between MThB and SBB.

history

After an initiative committee for the construction of the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn (MThB) was founded in Kreuzlingen on August 11, 1890, it established its first contacts with the Westdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG (WeEG) based in Cologne in 1899 . In 1901 a license application for a standard gauge railway was submitted to the Federal Council , which had been drawn up by engineer Jakob Ehrensperger from Winterthur. On December 19, 1902, the Swiss Federal Assembly granted the concession for a railway from Wil via Weinfelden to the border near Konstanz. In 1903 the Grand Ducal State Ministry of Baden approved the introduction of the railway line into the Konstanz station. In 1906, the initiative committee signed a 15-year non-cancellable contract for the construction and operation of a standard gauge railway Wil-Weinfelden-Konstanz with the WeEG. In this contract, the name "Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn - MThB" appeared for the first time, under which name a stock corporation was founded on April 28, 1908. Subscription to shares began on November 26, 1906. The largest block of shares was taken over by the canton of Thurgau , while the three cities of Constance, Weinfelden and Wil SG and the canton of St. Gallen subscribed for further significant amounts . In addition, 27 municipalities and private interested parties joined the group of shareholders. WeEG contributed a lien secured bond capital of 3 million francs.

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 10, 1909 between Weinfelden and the Thur. 60,000 cubic meters of earth were moved; four of the seven engineering structures to be constructed were larger objects. The Bussnang Viaduct was not tackled until late, most recently the section from Weinfelden-Berg down to Weinfelden, because detailed approvals were not available. In 1911, the removal of the iron bridges began. The Thur Bridge was loaded with three SBB type B 3/4 locomotives with a tender, each with about 85 tonnes of road mass. Further investigations of the substructure and superstructure, the crossings of the railway with power lines, the structural systems and the rolling stock finally allowed the Wil-Weinfelden-Kreuzlingen-Konstanz trunk line to be opened on December 16, 1911. In accordance with the contract, the WeEG ran the business. In 1931 the contract was transferred to Vereinigte Kleinbahnen AG (VKA) in Frankfurt am Main. The latter sold its stake, in particular the interest-bearing bonds to the AG for Transport in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and a small part to Overseas Trust Corporation Ltd. in Johannesburg. A package of bearer shares was given to Midland Bank Ltd. sold in London, but returned to the VKA from there in 1938. The contract was temporarily suspended during the war years . After the First and Second World Wars, the MThB was an important source of income from hard currency for the German contractual partners during the inflationary period. At the end of 1950 the contract was terminated and the MThB definitely went into own operation.

SBB-Interregio on the former MThB route Konstanz-Weinfelden in the double-track section between Tägerwilen and Kreuzlingen-Bernrain (2013)

The 41-kilometer, standard-gauge, single-track trunk line from Kreuzlingen via Weinfelden to Wil is predominantly in the canton of Thurgau , only the last, four-kilometer section belongs to the canton of St. Gallen . It was opened on December 20, 1911 for passenger and freight traffic and was used by steam trains and, from 1938, also with initially rented diesel railcars. As the last notable private railway in Switzerland, it introduced electrical operation on September 24, 1965. In 1969 the Mittelthurgau travel agency was founded as a subsidiary.

The trains started and ended regularly in Constance, where there was a connection to the German state rail network. They used the 1 km long Kreuzlingen - Konstanz route, which had been put into operation by the Swiss National Railways (SNB) on July 17, 1875 and later passed on to the SBB.

In 1992, the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) conceived the local transport service Seehas ( Konstanz - Singen (Hohentwiel) - Engen ), which was approved by the district of Konstanz in mid-1993 . For the quick implementation of the timetable change on May 29, 1994, rolling stock was urgently needed, which was taken from the ongoing production of the fourth series of the " New Shuttle Trains " (NPZ) for the SBB in consultation with the industry and the SBB . With a view to the start of operation of the Seehäsle with three Diesel GTW from Stadler, the subsidiary Mittelthurgaubahn (Deutschland) GmbH was founded in Constance in August 1996 .

In 1996, MThB won the tentative tender for the SBB lake line, initially for a maximum of 10 years, and began operating with the timetable change on June 1, 1997. However, the costs of investing in infrastructure and rolling stock were clearly underestimated, so they bought significant shares in inland freight traffic and wagonload traffic with externally financed rolling stock. This led to considerable over-indebtedness, and the Mittelthurgaubahn AG was finally liquidated on October 11, 2002. The long-time director Peter Joss and the president of the administrative board Hermann Lei (at that time a member of the government) resigned as chief responsible. The rolling stock and the systems were taken over by SBB and transferred to Thurbo AG.

Extended operational management

In addition to its main route, MThB took over management of the following routes in Germany and Switzerland in the 1990s:

These tasks have been taken over by the SBB subsidiaries SBB GmbH (Germany) and “Thurbo” (Switzerland), the latter is now also the owner of the main line (Kreuzlingen–) Tägermoos - (Weinfelden) - (Wil). The infrastructure operation of the lake line went back to the SBB, which also operate the infrastructure of the main line on behalf of the «Thurbo».

Some of the historical rolling stock, such as the “ Most India Express ” with the steam locomotive Ec 3/5 number 3 (built in 1912) including the associated wagons, a railcar (ABDe 4/4 number 12, see “ Thurgauer Zug ”) and a few others vehicles are from the club Historic Central Thurgau-Bahn entertained for heritage, social and excursions and operated. These are exhibited in the “Locorama” railway adventure world in Romanshorn.

Rolling stock

model series Manufacturer Construction year origin number of pieces Discarded Remarks
series Numbers total today
Locomotives
Re 4/4 21st SLM
BBC / MFO / SAAS 		1969 1 0 2002 > SBB 11172 II
Ae 476 471 LEW
(at) STAG 		1968 DR (1993) (Ex)0 10 0 1996 ex DR / DB 142 150; at LAG sold
472-474 1967, 1969 DB (1994) ex DR / DB 142 132, 133, 159; at LAG sold
475-476 1971, 1968 DB (1995) ex DR / DB 142 191, 157; at LAG sold
477-479 1967 ex DR / DB 142 118, 126, 128; at LAG sold
470 ex DR / DB 142 130; at LAG sold
Re 416 625-628 SLM
BBC / MFO / SAAS 		1946-1950 "CR" (1999) (Ex)0 4 0 2002 > Classic Rail
Re 486 651-656 Adtrance 2000 6th 0 2002 > SBB Re 481 001–006
Railcar
ABDe 4/4 11-15 SIG / SWS
SAAS / BBC / MFO 		1965 5 0 2002 > Thurbo
16 1966 GFM (1984) (Ex)0 1 > Thurbo; ex GFM ABDe 4/4 171
RBDe 566 631-634 SWG / SIG / FIG 1994 4th 0 2002 > Thurbo
Bm 596 671-673 STAG 1996-1997 3 0 2002 > Thurbo> SBB GmbH
RABe 526 680-689 STAG 1998-1999 10 0 2002 > Thurbo
Control car
Bt 201-202 1965 2 0 2002 > Thurbo
203 1964 GFM (1972) (Ex)0 2 > Thurbo; ex GFM Bt 303
204 GFM (1983) > Thurbo; ex GFM Bt 302
Bt 211-216 SWG / SIG / FIG 1994 6th 0 2002 > Thurbo> SBB GmbH
Bt 221-224 STAG 1999 4th 0 2002 > Thurbo
Bt 231-232 1962-1963 SZU (2001) (Ex)0 2 0 2002 > Thurbo> SBB GmbH; ex SZU Bt 997-998
Passenger cars
B. 121-122 SBB (1984) (Ex)0 9 0 2002 > Thurbo
123 SBB (1986)
124-127 SBB (1993)
128-129 SBB (1995)
FROM 151 III -152 III SBB (1993) (Ex)0 6 0 2002 > Thurbo
153 SBB (1984)
154 SBB (1987)
155 SBB (1991)
156 SBB (1995)
FROM 161-164 1995 4th 0 2002 > Thurbo> SBB GmbH
Shunting locomotives
Em 2/2 41 Stadler 1972 1 0 2002 > SBB Tm 233 950
Tm 51 Stadler 1966 1 0 2002 > Thurbo
Tm II 61 RACO 1968 1 0 2002 > FW (trolley operation)
Tm 236 662 RACO 1968 SBB (1999) (Ex)0 1 0 2002 > Winpro; ex SBB Tm II 663
Tm 236 652-653 STAG 1999 2 0 2002 > SBB Tm 233 910–911
Tm 236 648-649 STAG 2000 2 0 2003 > TPF Tm 237 087, SBB Tm 234 090

literature

  • Michael Mente: From MThB to Thurbo: 100 years of history and stories about the railway in central Thurgau. Accompanied by the stories of a cultural monument under steam . Verlag Flügelrad, Weinfelden 2013, ISBN 978-3-033-03961-2 .
  • Michael Mente: When a branch line becomes the main thing: Lecture at the vernissage of the book “From the MThB to the Thurbo”. Special publisher print, wing wheel, Weinfelden 2013.
  • Michael Mente: 100 years of the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn . The MThB and thurbo lent years of regional traffic. In: Railway amateur. No. 11, pp. 546-555 and 12/2011, pp. 598-609 ISSN  0013-2764 .
  • E. Rieben: A ride on the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 3, 1927, pp. 49–55 ( e-periodica )
  • Peter Schulijk: The end of a private railway. Mittelthurgau Railway liquidated . In: Lok Magazin . No. 256, volume 42/2003. GeraNova, Munich, ISSN  0458-1822 , p. 24.
  • M. Vogler: Some things about the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn and its construction. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 3, 1927, pp. 41–48 ( e-periodica )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ judgments in the next process to train debacle acquittal of Thurgau Altregierungsrat Hermann Lei, NZZ , December 16, 2004