Lausanne marshalling yard

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View in west direction from the road bridge to the runoff mountain
Aerial photo, 1980
SBB Re 6/6 in the station, 2007

The Lausanne marshalling yard ( French: Lausanne triage ) is located on the territory of the municipalities of Denges , Echandens and Lonay west of the city of Lausanne in the Swiss canton of Vaud . The marshalling yard is operated by SBB Cargo on behalf of SBB Infrastructure .

Investments

After the Limmattal marshalling yard near Zurich , it is the second largest inland marshalling yard in Switzerland. The Lausanne – Geneva railway line , where the Denges-Echandens passenger station is located, runs north parallel to the station . The railway line to Bern and the Simplon line towards Valais connect to the east of Lausanne train station . To the north, at the eastern end of the freight station, the Jura foot line towards Yverdon-les-Bains and Olten and the Simplon line to Vallorbe can be reached. In 2006 about 20% of Swiss import and export goods traffic was handled there, in particular via Vallorbe and Dardagny to France and via Iselle to Italy .

When it opened in 1971, the station had an office building with a signal box , a punch card department and computer, as well as a central radio system. 62 km of track and 188 points were installed on 75 hectares , as well as 80 main and distant signals as well as 250 dwarf signals, which were largely automatically controlled and secured . It was assumed that 2500 cars a day. Around the year 2012 around 1,300 wagons were shunted there every day. The power supply came from the Vernayaz power station .

It is a one-sided station in which trains in all directions are dismantled and newly formed in a common shunting system. The entry group in the east for accepting trains has 11 tracks, followed by a drainage mountain with two tracks and a directional and exit group with 38 tracks in the west. There is a turning loop for changing direction . There is also a repair workshop for damaged freight wagons. The downhill run is equipped with two-part valley brakes, and the speed of the freight wagons was recorded by radar when they opened in 1971. Around 150 wagons per hour can be processed.

history

Aerial photo by Werner Friedli , 1969

The first funds for the construction of the station were approved in 1961, and construction work began the following year. The entrance group of the station was already used during Expo 64 in Lausanne to be able to park special trains there. The official commissioning took place on May 23, 1971, simultaneously with the connecting curve Morges - Bussigny , which serves as a connection to the Simplon route and the Jura foot line. Several viaducts had to be built for this. As a result, the marshalling yard in Renens , which was commissioned in 1876 and located a few kilometers to the east, lost its importance. Together with other freight stations opened in the early 1970s, the opening led to a significant expansion of the capacity of Swiss rail freight transport. The construction time was 10 years, the total costs 150 million Swiss francs . 1.2 million cubic meters of earth had to be moved. 130,000 young trees were planted to replace the deforestation.

Since it opened, there have been complaints about the noise from the station.

On the night of June 29, 1994, a train derailed in the station and five wagons overturned. A wagon filled with 47 tons of epichlorohydrin burst open and about 2,300 liters leaked. Over 3000 residents had to be evacuated because of the risk of explosion.

As part of the expansion of the STEP 2035 rail traffic , the connection to the Limmattal marshalling yard is to be improved in particular .

Web links

Commons : Lausanne marshalling yard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Milos Zat'ko, Stephan Leber: Simulation of complex operating processes in a marshalling yard using the example of Lausanne Triage . In: Swiss Railway Review , 11/2006, pp. 9500–9503.
  3. ↑ a b The Lausanne-Triage marshalling yard . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Volume 89, Issue 22, June 3, 1971, pp. 554–555, doi: 10.5169 / seals-84872 .
  4. ^ A b Claudio Zemp: One night in the shunting circus . In: Via 2/2009, pp. 30-37.
  5. ^ A b N. Boysen, M. Fliedner, F. Jaehn, E. Pesch: Shunting yard operations: Theoretical aspects and applications . In: European Journal of Operational Research 220 (1), 2012, pp. 1–14, doi: 10.1016 / j.ejor.2012.01.043 .
  6. ^ A b Moins de bruit à la gare de Lausanne-Triage . In: 24 heures , November 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ Roger Desponds: La nouvelle gare de triage de Lausanne et son rôle dans le cadre des conceptions actuelles du trafic des marchandises aux chemins de fer fédéraux suisses (suite et fin) . In: Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande , Volume 94, 1968, Issue 25, pp. 341-347, doi: 10.5169 / seals-69667 .
  8. ↑ a b c La nouvelle gare de triage de Denges . In: Gazette de Lausanne , September 5, 1969, pp. 6-7.
  9. ↑ La gare de triage de Lausanne sera édifiée à Denges-Lonay . In: Gazette de Lausanne , March 3, 1961, p. 6.
  10. ^ Paul Schneeberger: Festival of Public Transport . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 8, 2014.
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  12. ↑ Lausanne Triage on gleiseplaene-schweiz.de. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  13. ↑ Michel Depoisier: Renens (VD). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  14. ^ Carl Hidber, Nikolaus Bischofberger: Transport offers in Switzerland 1970-85 on rail, road, water, air and pipelines . IVT report 85/1, Institute for Transport Planning, Transport Technology, Road and Railway Construction , ETH Zurich, December 1985, pp. 6, 31, doi: 10.3929 / ethz-b-000263470 .
  15. ↑ Gare de triage de Denges . In: Gazette de Lausanne , May 26, 1971, p. 15.
  16. ↑ Gare de triage de Denges - un bruit «souvent intolérable» . In: Gazette de Lausanne , September 7, 1971, p. 3.
  17. ↑ quoted from: Martina Schmid: Exposure and risk assessment in the population of Bad Münder after the railway accident of 09.09.2002 . Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 2005, p. 14.
  18. ↑ Switzerland secures network expansion by 2035 . In: Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung , June 12, 2019.

Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '41.5 "  N , 6 ° 32' 25.2"  E ; CH1903:  531077  /  one hundred and fifty-three thousand three hundred eighty-four