Schwyz – Stoos funicular

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Hinteres Schlattli - Stoos funicular
Funicular vehicle (December 2017)
Funicular vehicle (December 2017)
Route length: 1.740 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope : 1100  ‰
Top speed: 10.0 m / s = 36.0 km / h
Legend
End station - start of the route
 0,000 Hinteres Schlattli 562  m above sea level M.
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
 Muota
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 Zingelifluhtunnel (245 m)
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 Ober Zingeli tunnel (80 m)
Blockstelle, Awanst, Anst etc.
 0.685 Alternative point 1091  m above sea level M.
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 Stoosfluhtunnel (223 m)
End station - end of the line
 1,547 Stoos 1306  m above sea level M.

The Schwyz – Stoos funicular is a standard gauge funicular in the canton of Schwyz . It connects the Schlattli (Hinteribrig) in the municipality of Schwyz with the tourist town of Stoos above Morschach . Over a length of 1740 m, it overcomes a height difference of 744 m and below the siding has its maximum incline of 47.73 ° (110%), making it the steepest funicular in the world. It was opened on December 15, 2017 and replaced the old Schwyz – Stoos funicular , which had been in service since 1933 .

description

Valley station at the opening (December 2017)

In the extreme southeast of the municipality of the canton capital Schwyz , about 300 meters east of the valley station of the old cable car and directly on the border with the municipality of Muotathal , is at an altitude of 562  m above sea level. M. in the "Hinteren Schlattli" is the valley station of the funicular. The 1547 m long and completely straight route crosses the Muota on a 90 m long bridge immediately after leaving the valley station . While this is only slightly inclined, the gradient then increases rapidly and reaches the maximum of 1,100 per thousand (corresponds to 47.73 °) at the south portal of the Zingelfluhtunnel (245 m). This will be maintained until the middle of the subsequent Ober Zingeli tunnel (80 m). After 685 meters you are at 1091  m above sea level. M. the alternative point . In the Stoosfluhtunnel (223 m), which crosses under the former public swimming pool on the northern edge of the Stooser high plateau, the route flattens out significantly. The route is then 90 to 190 ‰ steep and is flat shortly before the end of the route. The mountain station at 1306  m above sea level. M. is located next to the Hotel Klingenstock and thus offers more direct access to the adjacent winter sports area than the former cable car.

Mountain station (September 2017)

The funicular has the following technical data:

  • Length: 1740 m
  • Difference in altitude: 744 m
  • Track width: 1435 mm
  • smallest slope: 0 ‰
  • maximum slope: 1100 ‰
  • Switch: Abt switch
  • Vehicles: 2 (136 people each)
  • Drive: in the mountain station (1360 PS = 1000 kW )
  • Pull rope diameter: 54 mm
  • Speed: 10 m / s (36 km / h)
  • Travel time: 4 minutes
  • Transport capacity: 1500 people / hour

The funicular on the Stoos is the steepest in the world. The Katoomba Scenic Railway in Australia is a bit steeper with an incline of 1280 ‰. From a technical point of view, however, this railway is an inclined elevator with four interconnected carriages, which are pulled by a rope on a winch and whose route has no passing point.

vehicles

Vehicle on the lower steep slope

Conventional funicular railways often have carriages with stepped compartments to compensate for the incline, while the platforms in the stations are designed in the form of stairs. One example of this is the old cable car on the Stoos. The two carriages for the new funicular, built by Garaventa in Goldau, stand completely horizontally in the stations and despite the extreme steepness of the railway, entry and exit in the stations is at ground level, even for people with prams and wheelchairs in all compartments. The four passenger cabins consist of cylindrical elements with large windows and space for 34 people each. Each compartment rotates according to the incline being traveled on, so that the passenger level is always horizontal. Goods are transported on a platform that is mounted on the vehicle on the mountain side. Passenger and freight traffic are logistically separated, which also contributes to comfort. Due to the reduction of the steepness to the horizontal, hold-down rollers for the pull rope are available on the exit bridge and again in front of the first tunnel , which prevent the pull rope from being lifted far above the route when the lower car is pulled.

history

Track construction (September 2017)
Stoosfluhtunnel (September 2017)

From 1933 to 2017 the Stoos was made accessible by the Schwyz – Stoos funicular railway. The concession was granted for a period of 80 years, and the railway was also considered technically out of date. In February 2004, the Morschach community and the Rigi-Schwyz regional association commissioned a feasibility study to analyze various options for future development. The existing runway would have had to be extensively refurbished in order to meet the increased safety requirements. However, this did not result in any significant improvements. For this reason, the administrative board of Sportbahnen Schwyz-Stoos-Fronalpstock AG (SSSF) decided in April 2008 to pursue the project of a 3S cable car from the Hinterer Schlattli to Stoos. A corresponding planning loan from the Morschach community was approved in a local referendum on November 30, 2008.

This project failed a year later after it was discovered that the 3S cableway can only be protected from ricochets from the Selgis shooting range to the east with a disproportionately large amount of effort . In November 2009, planning began for a new funicular on the route originally intended for the 3S cableway, which was presented to the public for the first time in May 2010. The SSSF calculated costs of 39.5 million Swiss francs and assumed it would go into operation at the beginning of the winter season in December 2013. In June 2011, the SSSF announced that the Garaventa company emerged as the winner of the international tender for electromechanical systems; These include the vehicles, the electronics and control of the funicular railway, the rails, sleepers and ballast as well as the engineering.

The referendums on the necessary changes to the zoning plan in the municipalities of Schwyz , Morschach and Muotathal on September 25, 2011 resulted in high approval ratings. In a further referendum on March 11, 2012, the voters of the Schwyz district approved an investment contribution of 5 million francs; approval was 77.9%. Another 5 million came from the municipality of Morschach, 10 million from the federal government and the canton and 1.9 million from the federal regional policy fund; the rest had to be financed by the SSSF itself. Meanwhile, the total cost had risen to 50 million. The first clearing work began in September 2012.

Also in September 2012, a consortium led by Implenia won the tender, which was carried out according to WTO criteria, for the construction of bridges and tunnels, dams and land cuts. An unsuccessful consortium filed a complaint against this with the Schwyz administrative court. The appeal was granted suspensive effect in November 2012. In January 2013, the administrative court dismissed the complaint and found the award procedure to be correct. On May 1, 2013, the new lift was outsourced to the Schwyz-Stoos AG (StSS) funicular railway , a 100 percent subsidiary of the restructured and renamed Stoosbahnen AG . Construction work on the line began in July 2013 with a delay of more than half a year. At this point, the aim was to open at the beginning of the 2015/16 winter season.

The material ropeway, which was supposed to be used to transport construction materials and machines up to the construction sites, collapsed on November 29, 2013. As a result, the work was delayed again by several months. The drilling work on the three tunnels began in May 2014, but was also affected by problems: drill heads had to be replaced several times or even got stuck in the rock, which meant that the opening date had to be postponed by another two years and the costs now amounted to 52 million. The last tunnel breakthrough took place on February 15, 2017. In April 2017, the final track construction began using a machine specially designed for this project. Driving uphill, she laid prefabricated concrete roadway elements, each 5.6 m long, including rails, pulleys and service walkway.

The inauguration of the lift was celebrated on the weekend of December 15-17, 2017. Federal President Doris Leuthard was one of the first passengers on December 15th. On December 16, the population of the Stoos-Muotatal region and the municipality of Schwyz were able to use the train free of charge; on December 17, the official handover to public transport took place at 12:17 p.m.

Web links

Commons : Schwyz – Stoos funicular railway  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facts about the new funicular at stoos-muotatal.ch, accessed on January 4, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c 6430.02 new Stoosbahn Schwyz Hinteres Schlattli - Stoos. standseilbahnen.ch, 2018, accessed on July 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Site plan of the funicular railway. (PDF, 3.3 MB) (No longer available online.) Sportbahnen Schwyz-Stoos-Fronalpstock AG, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  4. ↑ Length profile of the funicular. (PDF, 370 kB) (No longer available online.) Sportbahnen Schwyz-Stoos-Fronalpstock AG, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  5. ↑ Technical data old and new Stoosbahn. (PDF, 1.1 MB) In: Information about the new Stoosbahn. Stoosbahnen AG, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b New access to Stoos: media documents. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Sportbahnen Schwyz-Stoos-Fronalpstock AG, June 20, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  7. ↑ Basic access with a 3-S orbit. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Sportbahnen Schwyz-Stoos-Fronalpstock AG, August 19, 2009, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  8. ↑ a b Information about the new Stoosbahn. (No longer available online.) Sportbahnen Schwyz-Stoos-Fronalpstock AG, 2013, archived from the original on October 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 21, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stoos-muotatal.ch
  9. ↑ Basic development of Stoos: documents on media orientation. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Sportbahnen Schwyz-Stoos-Fronalpstock AG, May 20, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  10. ↑ Media release: Ballot of the Schwyz district. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Morschach community, March 11, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  11. ↑ Current information on the new Stoosbahn. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Sportbahnen Schwyz-Stoos-Fronalpstock AG, November 2, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  12. ↑ "Stooswärts", Newsletter 9. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Sportbahnen Schwyz-Stoos-Fronalpstock AG, November 20, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  13. ↑ Administrative court protects Stoosbahn employment contracts. Southeastern Switzerland , January 25, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
  14. ↑ «Stooswärts», Newsletter 10. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Stoosbahnen AG, June 21, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  15. ↑ Material ropeway on the Stoos collapses. Luzerner Zeitung , November 29, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Problems with the Stoos-Bahn. Swiss Radio and Television , November 9, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Breakthrough at the last tunnel. (No longer available online.) Stoosbahnen AG, February 15, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  18. ↑ "Stooswärts", Newsletter 14. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Stoosbahnen AG, July 13, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 21, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stoos-muotatal.ch  
  19. ↑ New Stoosbahn - the steepest funicular in the world is inaugurated. Swiss Radio and Television, November 9, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Doris Leuthard opens the Stoosbahn. Swiss radio and television, December 11, 2017, accessed on December 16, 2017 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '27  .9 " N , 8 ° 40' 23.9"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety-three thousand nine hundred seventeen  /  205,184