SBB Historical Heritage Foundation

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SBB Historic in Windisch

The SBB Historical Heritage Foundation ( French: Fondation pour le patrimoine historique des CFF ; Italian: Fondazione per il patrimonio storico delle FFS ) with the brand name SBB Historic is a foundation under private law with its headquarters in Erstfeld UR and an office in Windisch AG . The foundation collects historically valuable goods and files from Swiss railway history and makes them accessible and usable to a broader public.

The foundation wants to collect, preserve and conserve historical objects related to rail transport in Switzerland , as well as inform and document them.

history

Photo from the 19th century: Railway bridge over the Göschenerreuss

Shortly after it was founded, the Swiss Federal Railways planned to build a railway museum in order to make the existing historically valuable vehicles and other railway objects accessible to the public. After lengthy discussions, a small railway museum was opened in 1918 in the service building of the Zurich freight yard on Hohlstrasse. As became apparent interest in a national transport museum in the 1950s, also SBB involved in the planning and finally brought the groupage on loan to the club of Transport of Switzerland one. The Verkehrshaus in Zurich was originally planned, but no suitable location could be found. That is why it was finally opened in Lucerne in 1959 .

The maintenance and maintenance of the functionality of the vehicles was mainly the responsibility of the main railway workshops and locomotive depots of the SBB. There, the locomotives and wagons were maintained by the workshop staff and the train drivers, in some cases free of charge.

The transformation of SBB into a stock corporation in 1999 initiated a far-reaching restructuring process. In the course of concentrating on core competencies and cost optimization, SBB established the private law foundation “Historic Heritage of the SBB”, or “SBB Historic” for short, in 2001 and outsourced the goods to it.

In 2015, SBB Historic von Bern moved into the building of the former SBB materials warehouse on the south side of Brugg train station .

Endowment

Library

Example from the documents

The specialist library is open to the public and is part of the “German-speaking Switzerland Basel Bern” information network. It comprises over 30,000 books on the subject of railways and transport, 300 current and historical specialist magazines and all timetables since the beginning of the railway age in Switzerland.

Archives

The archives include the historical archive, the photo archive, the film and video archive and the archive of the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Factory (SLM). The holdings include around 3000 linear meters of historical documents from the SBB and its predecessor railways. There are also around 450,000 photographs and slides, around 6,500 historical film and video documents as well as over 100,000 plans for locomotive construction and many other valuable sources on railway history.

In 2018, the archives of the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) were transferred from Winterthur to Windisch.

Collections

The collections document the history of the railways in Switzerland. The focus is on the poster collection, the collections of train lights, jukeboxes and vehicle models on a scale of 1:10, the rail collection and the art collection. The collection objects are listed at www.sbbarchiv.ch, an overview of the collections available in Switzerland related to railway history is provided by the collection platform www.sbbhistoric.ch/de/plattform.

Strikers and barricades at Grenchen Süd train station during the national strike

Online dossiers

In 2018, digitized photos and files on topics were bundled and published as online dossiers from selected holdings, the first on the state strike in 1918.

Locomotives

The foundation property includes around twelve steam locomotives, over 24 electric locomotives and multiple units, as well as one diesel locomotive. The 174 vehicles as of the end of 2011 are mostly drivable and can be rented or are on display in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne .

Steam locomotives

SBB C 5/6 2978 in Delémont

Electric locomotives

Railcar

Diesel locomotive

dare

The foundation also has various historical carriages from different epochs, with which historically accurate compositions can be operated together with the locomotives .

Objects

In addition to the rolling stock , SBB Historic has other movable objects from the history of SBB, such as an impressive collection of railway lanterns and a unique number of former jukeboxes from the train stations.

Events

In order to be able to present the foundation's assets, SBB Historic regularly takes part in events such as exhibitions, public trips and parades.

Historic trips

SBB Historic offers an annually changing program of special trips with historical rolling stock. It is also possible to rent historical special trains and charter trips for business events as well as club or family outings.

Interlaken train meeting

From 2004 to 2008, SBB Historic operated a 1200 m² exhibition called Bahn-Treff in Interlaken together with the Modellisenbahntreff Cooperative, which showed exhibits from 100 years of railway history. In addition, around twelve model railways of famous and spectacular Swiss routes were on display.

Web links

Commons : SBB Historic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SBB Historic bundles its strengths in Brugg AG. In: bernerzeitung.ch/. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The SLM archive is moving: three perspectives from times gone by. Retrieved September 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Online dossiers. Retrieved September 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 10 years of SBB Historic: anniversary party and new depot. In: Swiss Railway Review. No. 12, 2011, p. 623.