Midland regional transport
The regional Mittelland ( RM ) is a former railway company in Switzerland based in Burgdorf in the canton of Bern . The RM had a route length of 154 km and operated in the cantons of Bern , Solothurn and Lucerne . The RM was created in 1997 from the merger of the Emmental-Burgdorf-Thun-Bahn (EBT), the United Huttwil-Bahnen (VHB) and the Solothurn-Münster-Bahn (SMB). The regional Mittelland AG was established in June 2006 with the BLS to the new BLS AG merged , the new company has been operating since June 27 of 2006.
On 6 June 2000 in joined Hüswil one because of an incorrectly placed Soft RBDe 4/4 II - commuter train in a Schotterzug. The accident cost a railroad worker his life. The driver of the shuttle train and three other people were injured. The Hüswil station was only equipped with manual switches without signal-dependent routes . Thus, after the entry signal was opened, the points could still be switched.
On January 5, 2004, RM spun off the freight transport business into Crossrail AG . This company was sold on January 1, 2006 to the investment company Babcock & Brown (B&B) from Australia, which also held stakes in other companies in the transport sector and was dissolved in 2009.
Key figures
With 581 employees (as of 2002), RM generated 18.3 million Swiss Francs in passenger transport and transported 8.27 million passengers.
The turnover in freight transport was CHF 11.7 million. First and foremost, it was block train traffic for major customers such as Stahl Gerlafingen AG in Gerlafingen , the M-Real paper mill in Biberist and Kronospan AG in Menznau . The single wagon load traffic (EWLV) has been operated entirely by SBB since the timetable change in December 2004. The “Cargodrome Wiler” crane terminal had been in operation since 2003, and UKV shuttles (unaccompanied combined transport) were carried to Duisburg and Domodossola . With a view to the merger with BLS, the Cargodrome and Crossrail AG were sold to the Australian investment company Babcock & Brown at the beginning of 2006 .
stretch
| Moutier - Solothurn West | Timetable field 411 | 22.09 km |
| Burgdorf- Solothurn | Schedule field 304.1 | 20.74 km |
| Langnau- Burgdorf | Schedule field 304.2 | 18.90 km |
| Thun - Hasle-Rüegsau | Timetable field 340 | 33.82 km |
| Sumiswald- Grün-Wasen in the Emmental | 5.23 km | |
| Huttwil– Affoltern-Weier –Sumiswald-Grünen– Ramsei | 19.46 km | |
| Wolhusen - Langenthal | Schedule field 440 | 39.32 km |
history
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Emmental Railway (EB) August 4, 1872 |
Burgdorf-Thun-Bahn (BTB) November 16, 1896 |
Langenthal-Huttwil Railway (LHB) November 1, 1889 |
Huttwil-Wolhusen-Bahn (HWB) 9.5.1895 |
Ramsei-Sumiswald-Huttwil Railway (RSHB) 1.6.1908 |
Solothurn-Münster-Bahn (SMB) March 5, 1899 |
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Huttwil-Eriswil Railway (HEB) E September 1, 1915; 01/01/1927 |
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Emmental-Burgdorf-Thun Railway (EBT) 1.1.1942 |
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United Huttwil Railways (VHB) 1.1.1944 |
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Regional traffic Mittelland (RM) 1.1.1997 |
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BLS AG 2006 |
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All dates unless otherwise stated Opening (E) or founding or taking over (O)
- 1875 EB route Biberist –Burgdorf opens
- 1876 The route Solothurn – Biberist is opened by EB
- 1881 The EB Burgdorf – Langnau line opens
- 1889 LHB line opens from Langenthal – Huttwil
- 1895 Huttwil – Wolhusen route opened by the HWB
- 1899 BTB opens the Hasle-Rüegsau – Thun route
- 1908 The Solothurn West – Oberdorf –Münster ( Moutier ) line is opened by the SMB
- 1908 Route Ramsei – Sumiswald – Huttwil of the RSHB opened
- 1915 Huttwil – Eriswil route opened by the HEB
- 1927 Takeover of HEB by LHB
- 1942 EB and BTB merge to form EBT
- 1944 LHB, HWB and RSHB merge to form VHB
- 1975 Changeover to buses on the Huttwil – Eriswil route
- 1977 Inauguration of the Oberburg workshop
- 1979 Line closure and demolition of the Huttwil – Eriswil line
- 1994 Changeover to the Sumiswald– Wasen bus
- 1997 Merger of EBT, VHB and SMB to form RM
- 1999 Line management of the S4 Langnau – Burgdorf – Bern S-Bahn and S44 Burgdorf-Bern lines
- 2004 Merger talks with the BLS Lötschbergbahn
- 2004 Changeover to buses on the Affoltern-Weier – Huttwil route
- 2006 Merger with BLS Lötschbergbahn to form BLS AG
Rolling stock
De 586,
ex EBT De 4/4
BDe 576,
ex EBT BDe 4/4
RBDe 566,
ex EBT RBDe 4/4 I
NPZ RBDe 566,
ex EBT RBDe 4/4 II
RABe 526 of the SBB,
ex RM
| model series | Manufacturer | Construction year | origin | number of pieces | Discarded | Type | Remarks | ||
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| series | Numbers | total | fusion | ||||||
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| Be 416 | 101-106 | SLM / SAAS | 1932 | EBT | 10 | hist. 1 | 2000 | 102 handed over to the BLS Foundation | |
| 107-108 | 1944-1953 | EBT | |||||||
| 171-172 | 1932 | SMB | 171 sold to private individuals | ||||||
| Re 436 | 111-112 |
SLM / BBC / MFO / SAAS |
1969 | EBT | 5 | 0 | 2005 | to CROSS sold | |
| 113-115 | 1983 | EBT size | |||||||
| Re 456 | 142-143 | SLM / ABB | 1993 | VHB | 2 | 2 | 2002 * | KTU locomotive | rented to SOB until 2011 |
| Electric multiple units / trains | |||||||||
| De 586 | 235-236 | SWS / SIG / BBC / MFO | 1932/1981 | EBT | (Around) 4 | ex EBT BDe 2/4 226, 230 | |||
| 266-267 | VHB | ex EBT BDe 2/4 223, 228 | |||||||
| BDe 576 | (201) 250 | SIG / BBC | 1966 | EBT | 3 | 0 | 2004 | Mirage | at OeBB sold |
| 251-252 | VHB | 2003 | 251 at SOB , 2005, CSG sold | ||||||
| RBDe 566 | 220-227 | SWS / SAAS | 1973-1974 | EBT size | 8th | 8th | |||
| RBDe 566 | 230-242 | 1984-1985 | EBT size | 13 | 13 | KTU-NPZ | |||
| RABe 526 | 260-265 | STAG | 2003 | 6th | 6th | GTW (3 pieces) | Conversion 2009–2010 (BLS) to GTW 2/8 (4-part) | ||
| RABe 526 | 280-286 | STAG | 2004 | 7th | 7th | GTW (4 pieces) | |||
| Control car | |||||||||
| ABt | 301 | 1966 | EBT | 2 | EW I | to Mirage | |||
| 351 | VHB | ||||||||
| ABt | 952 | 1977 | VHB | 1 | 0 | 2004 | ex Bt 352; at OeBB sold | ||
| ABt 80-35 | 920-927 | 1973-1974 | EBT size | 8th | |||||
| ABt 80-35 | 930-943 | 1984-1992 | EBT size | 14th | 14th | KTU-NPZ | |||
| Passenger cars | |||||||||
| B. | 505-508 | 1973-1974 | EBT | 5 | 11 | ||||
| 555 | VHB | ||||||||
| 509-510 | 1977 | EBT | 6th | ||||||
| 556-559 | VHB | ||||||||
| B 20-35 | 511-524 | 1984-1992 | EBT size | 14th | 14th | B Lego | |||
| B 6 22-35 | 626-630 | 2005 | 5 | 5 | B jumbo | ex RM B 6 520-524 | |||
| Shunting locomotives and tractors | |||||||||
| Ee 936 | 131 |
SLM / BBC / MFO / SAAS |
1967 | EBT | 1 | ||||
| Ee 936 | 132-135 | SLM / ABB | 1991 | EBT size | 4th | 4th | |||
| Tm 236 | 371-372 | RACO | 1980, 1983 | RM | 2 | 2 | |||
| Tm 236 | 380-384 | Winpro | 2004 | 5 | 5 | ant | |||
| Ub = takeover from outside stock (used vehicle); Um = conversion from our own stock | |||||||||
Be 4/4 of the SMB and EBT
Re 436, ex Re 4/4
Re 456
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| Number | designation | Installation | Remarks |
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| 2 | Te 216 321-329 | 1944-63 | Tractors type Te I, ex EBT / VHB Te 2/2 21–25, 61, 27–29, 325 + 327 since 2006 with the VDBB |
| 5 | Te 216 301-305 | 1945/1952 | Tractors, ex EBT / VHB Te III 121–124, 161 ex Ce 2/2 EBT 161, VHB 163, CJ 2, CJ 1, VHB 162 |
| 1 | Ec 4/5 11 | 1911 | ex SMB, permanent loan to VDBB |
Te 216, ex VHB Ce 2/2
Tm 236
Ec 4/5 11, ex SMB
Individual evidence
- ↑ Collision in Hüswil . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 7 . Minirex, 2000, ISSN 1022-7113 , pp. 324 .
- ^ Walter von Andrian: Modern operating regulations and manual switch stations . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 10 . Minirex, 2000, ISSN 1022-7113 , pp. 476-478 .
- ↑ 100 years LHB - at the inauguration the operating license was missing , in Berner Zeitung, November 3, 1989
- ↑ 100 years of the Ramsei-Sumiswald-Huttwil-Bahn - retrospectives on a dying line , in Berner Zeitung, May 30, 2008
literature
- Werner Weber, Werner Hardmeier: Regionalverkehr Mittelland; Volume 1: Emmental Railway, Burgdorf – Thun Railway . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2000, ISBN 3-907579-20-8
- Werner Weber, Werner Hardmeier, Jürg Aeschlimann: Regionalverkehr Mittelland; Volume 2: Emmental – Burgdorf – Thun Railway . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2002, ISBN 3-907579-23-2
- Werner Weber, Jürg Suter: Solothurn – Münster Railway . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2008. ISBN 978-3-907579-28-2
- Pascal Lippmann: Fleet policy and fleet concept of Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 11/2003, ISSN 1421-2811 , pp. 494–497.
- Peter Willen: Locomotives in Switzerland, standard gauge traction units. 3rd edition, Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1975, ISBN 3-280-00800-X