Spiez-Erlenbach-Zweisimmen Railway
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Timetable field : | 320 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 34.90 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maximum slope : | 25.2 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Spiez-Erlenbach-Zweisimmen-Bahn ( SEZ ), also Simmentalbahn , is a former Swiss railway company whose route runs from Spiez through the Simmental to Zweisimmen .
The SEZ was created on January 1, 1942 from the merger of the Spiez-Erlenbach Railway (SEB) from Spiez to Erlenbach , which opened on August 16, 1897, with the Erlenbach-Zweisimmen Railway ( EZB ) from Erlenbach to Zweisimmen, which opened on October 31, 1902 .
In June 1997 the SEZ merged with the Gürbetal-Bern-Schwarzenburg-Bahn (GBS), the Bern-Neuchâtel-Bahn (BN) and the Berner Alpenbahn-Gesellschaft Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon (BLS) to form the BLS Lötschbergbahn , which is located in the In 2006 it merged with Regionalverkehr Mittelland to form BLS AG .
In Zweisimmen there is a connection to the narrow-gauge Montreux-Berner-Oberland-Bahn (MOB), which runs from Lake Geneva to Lenk in the Simmental.