Basel S-Bahn

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Basel S-Bahn
 Basel S-Bahn
Line plan trireno.png
Route plan trireno 2020
Country Switzerland , Germany. , France
Lines 8th
Route length 357 km
Stations 108
Passengers 40 million (2018)
operator SBB, SBB GmbH, DB Regio, SNCF Voyageurs

S-Bahn in Switzerland

The trinational S-Bahn Basel (formerly: Regio-S-Bahn Basel) has been connecting the trinational agglomeration of Basel with the core city and thus also three countries ( Germany , France and Switzerland ) with each other since 1997 . It consists of a total of eight S-Bahn lines and is used by more than 40 million passengers a year. With the exception of lines S5 and S9, which do not go to Basel , all lines today end at the Basel SBB and Basel Bad Bf train stations . The Basel S-Bahn is operated by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB AG), its German subsidiary SBB GmbH , Deutsche Bahn ( DB Regio ) and the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF Voyageurs).

The cantons of Aargau , Basel-Stadt , Basel-Landschaft , Jura , Solothurn , the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Région Grand Est have ordered the Basel S-Bahn .

Since 2016, the trinational S-Bahn Basel has been developing under the name trireno . Under the same name, the customers have been running a joint coordination platform for cross-border coordinated planning of the future offer since 2018. The former name Regio-S-Bahn is no longer used.

stretch

The Basel S-Bahn runs on the existing rail network in the Basel region . The 357-kilometer route network currently includes 108 train stations or stops, 47 of which are in Switzerland , 54 in Germany and 7 in France . The shortest line is the S5 (14 km), the longest line is the S3 (106 km).

The following routes are also used by the Basel S-Bahn:

Lines

Operating concept

Lines S1, S3, S5 and S6 run every half hour, with operations on the outer branches, as well as in the evenings and on weekends, being reduced to an hourly service. The TER line runs between Basel SBB and Mulhouse at irregular hourly intervals , which are reduced to half an hourly rate during rush hour. The RB27 between Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf and Basel Bad Bf as well as the RB35 between Lauchringen (Baden) and Basel Bad Bf run every hour and are condensed into half-hourly during rush hour by additional RB. The S9 runs continuously every hour.

An overview of the routes and operating times can be found in the table below:

line route Cycle (in min) Remarks
TER Mulhouse - Basel SBB 60 (30 in peak hours) individual bar gaps
S1 Basel SBB - Stein-Säckingen 30th individual amplifiers in the HVZ without line designation
S1 Stein-Säckingen - Frick 60
S1 Stein-Säckingen - Laufenburg 60
S3 Porrentruy - running 60 individual amplifiers in the high season between Delémont , Laufen and Basel without line designation
S3 Running - Basel SBB - Olten 30th
S5 Weil am Rhein - Lörrach Hbf - Steinen 30th hourly evenings and weekends; from 8 p.m. (all day on Saturdays) only between Weil am Rhein and Lörrach Hbf ; Sundays between Weil am Rhein and Zell im Wiesental (from Lörrach-Stetten every half hour together with S6)
S6 Basel SBB - Lörrach Hbf - Zell (Wiesental) 30 (60 on Sun) hourly on Sundays (every half hour together with S5 between Lörrach-Stetten and Zell im Wiesental )
S9 Sissach - Läufelfingen - Olten 60
RB27 Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf - Basel Bad Bf 60 (30 in peak hours) During peak hours every half hour between Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf and Basel Bad Bf
RB35 Basel Bad Bf - Waldshut - Lauchringen 60 (30 in peak hours) At peak hours every half hour between Basel Bad Bf and Waldshut

From Monday to Friday during rush hour, two pairs of trains on the S5 line run via Steinen to Schopfheim without stopping in Maulburg and Schopfheim West .

The very changeable demand on the S5 line temporarily led to a change in operations. On the one hand, the trains stopped temporarily at some stops only when needed. This measure was not continued. However, the shift in the timetable for the S5 on weekends was retained. The trains have also been offering a direct connection from Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf to Lörrach Hbf on Saturdays and Sundays in Weil am Rhein since December 2013 . Saturdays consists in Lörrach central station a direct connection to the cell in Wiesentalstrasse , Sundays the trains of S5 Lörrach main station addition to cell in Wiesental. In this way, for the first time, there was also a half-hourly service between Lörrach Hbf and Zell im Wiesental on Sundays . On weekends, a pair of trains runs between Weil am Rhein and Lörrach Hbf , which has no other stops apart from Lörrach-Stetten .

Lines

Route plan trireno 2020

The eight lines of the Basel S-Bahn consist of:

The extended local rail passenger transport in the Basel region also includes:

Night network

On 19 December 2008, the developed took TNW - night network into operation. The night network, which previously existed in a restricted form, is made up of night buses and, for the first time, night trams and night suburban trains, which run in the Basel area on weekend nights. The night S-Bahn lines distinguish them from the actual S-Bahn network SN line numbers. There are currently three S-Bahn lines, three tram lines and 28 bus lines in the night network; most lines at least every hour.

No additional night surcharge is required for the ticket to use the night network. This was abolished for the 2011/2012 timetable change in December 2011.

operator

The Basel S-Bahn is operated by four companies:

operator Lines
Swiss Federal Railways S1, S3, S9
SBB GmbH S5, S6
SNCF Voyageurs TER
DB Regio RE / RB Upper Rhine and High Rhine

Tariff and transport associations

The Basel S-Bahn network is divided into various tariff associations . Most train stations or stops in Switzerland are part of the Northwestern Switzerland Tariff Association (TNW). A few belong to the Jura tariff association (Vagabond) or the A-Welle tariff association (TVA). In Germany, the stops are in the Regio Verkehrsverbund Lörrach (RVL), in the Waldshuter Tarifverbund (WTV) and in the Regio-Verkehrsverbund Freiburg (RVF).

Near the border there are also train stations and stops that are in two tariff networks, including Basel Bad Bf , the Riehen train station and the Riehen Niederholz stop (both in the TNW and RVL).

There is also a mutual recognition of single tickets and multi-trip tickets between TNW and RVL. This includes Zone 10 of the TNW ( Canton Basel-Stadt and surrounding suburbs) as well as the entire RVL area. Additional offers such as cross-border network subscriptions or day tickets ensure international networking.

history

After a long period of preparation, in which the problems resulting from different legal and technical requirements had to be resolved, operations under the name Regio-S-Bahn started in 1997 . The green R logo, which was used until 2016, was also introduced. The first lines from June 1, 1997 were the S1 Mulhouse - Basel SBB - Frick / Laufenburg and the S3 Olten - Basel SBB - Laufen . On May 24, 1998, the train sequence on the S1 was condensed and the S9 Sissach - Läufelfingen - Olten went into operation.

The first line on German territory, the line originally called the S4 from Basel SBB to Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf , went into operation on January 6, 2002.

On December 12, 2004, the S3 was extended to Porrentruy . The S5 Weil am Rhein - Lörrach Hbf - Steinen and S6 Basel Badischer Bahnhof - Lörrach Hbf - Zell (Wiesental) also went into operation on this date . SBB GmbH , a subsidiary of the Swiss Federal Railways, has been operating there as a rail transport company since June 15, 2003 .

The first major expansions to upgrade the S-Bahn were carried out on the Wiesentalbahn : new stations in Lörrach and Weil am Rhein , adjustment of the stop edges at the other stops, new routes in Basel Bad Bf to enable the Wiesentalbahn to be connected to Basel SBB .

Stadler FLIRT was used for the first time on the Basel S-Bahn in September 2005 . The S5 was the first S-Bahn line to be served integrally with FLIRT from October 2005 . The shortest line of the Basel S-Bahn at 14 km is served by two vehicles. During the following months, the S6's NPZ were gradually replaced by seven FLIRT ; integral operation began on March 31, 2006. In the course of the 2006 timetable year, the step-by-step introduction of FLIRT also took place on the S3 . By the 2006/2007 timetable change on December 10, 2006, all of the S3's rolling stock had been replaced by 20 new electric multiple units. At the same time, the S6 was tied through to Basel SBB station .

Since the 2008/2009 timetable change in December 2008, the Basel SBB - Frick / Laufenburg route has been served integrally with FLIRT . Since December 2008, electric railcars of the SNCF Z 27500 series have been in use on the Basel SBB - Mulhouse route .

Newly built stops

Since 1997, twelve new stops have been built on the lines of the Basel S-Bahn:

Planning and projects

Logo of the trinational S-Bahn Basel

The plans for the further development of the Basel S-Bahn are running between the seven customers (cantons of Aargau , Basel-Stadt , Basel-Landschaft , Jura , Solothurn , the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Région Grand Est ) as part of their joint coordination platform trireno . In 2014, the cantons concerned submitted a previously trinationally developed and coordinated service concept for the Basel S-Bahn to the Federal Office of Transport . The offer concept was slightly revised in 2019 and approved by all seven regional ordering authorities on January 17, 2020. As before, the aims of the service concept are to achieve at least half an hourly intervals on the outer branches and at least quarter of an hour intervals in the inner area of ​​the agglomeration. With new direct connections across the trinational agglomeration of Basel, every Swiss valley district is to be connected to both Germany and France.

However, this requires major infrastructure measures, the implementation of which will take several years. The lack of separation of long-distance and freight traffic represents one of the major operational challenges, as the longer the network is reaching its capacity limits. Investments are to be made in the next few years and decades to increase capacities, which is essential for the planned expansion of the Basel S-Bahn.

The essential contents or intended target states of the planning work are:

Rail offer

This S-Bahn service will continue to be supplemented by regional and long-distance trains (e.g. Interregio-Express , TER 200).

Infrastructure measures under construction

Planned infrastructure measures

Planned new stops

Project at the heart of Basel

A major disadvantage of what the S-Bahn Basel offers today is the lack of connection between the individual lines (formation of diameter lines ) and the inadequate development of Basel's city center with the S-Bahn. This leads to an unattractive need to change trains in the current terminus of Basel SBB and Basel Bad Bf and thus to an overload of railway stations and inner-city tram lines. These inadequacies are to be remedied by building the so-called heart , an underground connection from Basel SBB to Basel Bad Bf and Basel St. Johann with two new underground stops in the center. The Federal Office of Transport , SBB and the cantons are working together on the implementation of this key project for the Basel S-Bahn.

Deployed trains

RABe 521 / RABe 522 electric multiple units

RABe 521 on the S6 line in Lörrach

Low-floor multiple units Stadler FLIRT in the series RABe 521, RABe 522 and / or RABe 523 run on most S-Bahn lines. In contrast to the basic variant of the FLIRT (RABe 523), which can be used in Switzerland, the variants are 521 and 522 designed for cross-border traffic to Germany and France. The two sister series differ in principle only in terms of traction equipment and train control systems for neighboring countries. Trains from the RABe 526 series ( Stadler GTW ) in Thurbo paint are used to operate the S9 .

model series commitment
SBB RABe 521 S1, S3, S5, S6
SBB RABe 522 S1, S3
THURBO RABe 526 S9

Remarks

  • Out of 30 vehicles in the RABe 521 series, ten are mathematically intended for SBB GmbH for use on the S5 / S6, the other twenty for the S3. The two-system vehicles are technically identical and are freely swapped between the lines; Use on the S1 is also possible.
  • The delivery of 12 dual-current vehicles of the RABe 522 series for the S1, which is planned for 2008, has meanwhile been suspended. Due to the currently valid approval procedure in France, a design change was necessary, the RABe 522 were therefore dismantled to RABe 523. In 2008, a total of 14 structurally revised FLIRTs were ordered for use in France and were delivered from 2011. They were approved for France in December 2012. The cross-border operation of the trains has since failed due to the creation of a continuous timetable. In 2014, efforts were temporarily suspended. With the commissioning of the new EuroAirport rail link , cross-border use should be possible again.

RBDe 560 / RBDe 562 electric multiple unit

SNCF Z 27500 on the TER line at Mulhouse station

Until September 2005, most of the lines of the then Regio-S-Bahn Basel operated electric multiple units of the type RBDe 560 or RBDe 562. These have since been replaced in several stages by new low-floor multiple units Stadler FLIRT . The integral use of the new trains has been on the S5 since October 7, 2005, on the S6 since March 31, 2006, on the S3 since December 10, 2006 and on the S1 since December 14, 2008.

The converted RBDe 560 electric multiple units (of the Domino type ) are used regularly on a section of the S1 ( Basel - Laufenburg and back in the morning , Basel - Stein-Säckingen - Basel in the evening ). In addition, an NPZ composition is used once in the morning and once in the evening on the S3.

model series commitment
SBB RBDe 560 Regular use: S1 and S3 during rush hour mornings and evenings

Electric multiple unit SNCF Z 27500

Modern electric multiple units of the SNCF Z 27500 series are used on the TER Mulhouse - Basel line . These can only run under the French electricity system with 25 kV 50 Hz ~ and therefore only use tracks 30 to 35 of the Basel SBB train station (formerly Basel SNCF train station ). Although the SBB RABe 522 electric multiple units are now approved in France, they are not used on the Mulhouse - Basel route. In Basel SBB you still have to change trains .

model series commitment
SNCF Z 27500 TER Mulhouse Ville - Basel SBB

See also

literature

  • Jürgen Burmeister: Unlimited mobility. In: Railway magazine. 4/2007, pp. 26-28.
  • Germann Dreier: The Basel Regional S-Bahn - a cross-border public transport system for north-west Switzerland. In: Swiss Railway Review. 5/2007, pp. 245-250.
  • Martin Haag: S-Bahn TriRhena - Stand and visions. In: Regio Basiliensis. Vol. 48, H. 1 (2007), pp. 37-47.
  • Emanuel Barth: Efficient public transport as the backbone of mobility in the trinational agglomeration of Basel - the planning and implementation of an attractive offer beyond administrative and territorial borders. In: Regio Basiliensis. Vol. 58, H. 2 (2017), pp. 129–126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ trireno (ed.): Business figures 2018 .
  2. ↑ trireno - Trireno - Trinationale S-Bahn Basel. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Development of offers - Trireno - Trinational S-Bahn Basel. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Switzerland on Sunday - Flirt with France fails. Retrieved August 2, 2016 .
  5. ↑ New rail connection EuroAirport. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ DB Regio awarded the contract for Rhine rail. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  7. ^ RE stop on the Rhine Valley Railway between Offenburg and Basel. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  8. ^ TNW night network - Northwest Switzerland tariff association. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  9. ^ Badische Zeitung: S-Bahn stop Schlattholz is at the destination - Schopfheim - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ trireno: Expansion of the trinational S-Bahn Basel on course - cross-border consensus confirmed. (PDF) trireno, January 17, 2020, accessed on January 29, 2020 .
  11. ^ Badische Zeitung: Basel: 15-minute intervals from Lörrach to Basel can be implemented - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved August 2, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Federal Office of Transport FOT Confederation, cantons BS and BL, SBB and DB adopt the long-term target for the development of the Basel railway junction. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Stadler FLIRT in Switzerland on le-rail.ch
  14. ↑ Mathias Rellstab: SBB are expanding and reorganizing their Flirt fleet. In: Swiss Railway Review. No. 10/2008, Minirex AG, Lucerne 2008, ISSN  1022-7113 , pp. 522-523.
  15. ^ First flirtation with France. In: Swiss Railway Review. No. 10/2010, Minirex AG, Lucerne 2010, p. 499.
  16. ↑ A new line and a new stop. Retrieved March 13, 2019 (German).