Trams Schaffhausen – Schleitheim

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Neuhausen-Oberwiesen-Stühlingen
StSS motor vehicle in front of the Siblingen depot, 1905
StSS motor vehicle in front of the Siblingen depot, 1905
Route length: 16.421 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system : 900 volts  =
Maximum slope : 60 
Minimum radius : 17 m
   
Schaffhausen tram
   
0.000 Hochrheinbahn 430  m above sea level M.
   
0.384 Neuhausen Kreuzstrasse 440  m above sea level M.
   
1,888 Engehof 455  m above sea level M.
   
4.046 Beringen StSS 456  m above sea level M.
   
5,942 Löhningen 470  m above sea level M.
   
8,882 Siblings 508  m above sea level M.
   
9.120 Siblingen depot
   
10,827 Siblingerhöhe 555  m above sea level M.
   
12,539 Hohbrugg 502  m above sea level M.
   
14,551 Schleitheim 467  m above sea level M.
   
Schleitheim depot
   
15,540 Bartenmühle (later abandoned)
   
16,421 Oberwiesen- Stühlingen 456  m above sea level M.

The Schaffhausen – Schleitheim tram , or StSS for short , was a transport company in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen . It operated an electric, meter-gauge overland tram , which from August 8, 1905 connected Neuhausen am Rheinfall with the Oberwiesen district of Schleitheim . The StSS trains ran continuously from and to the canton capital Schaffhausen . Here they used the tracks of the former Schaffhausen tram , which was operated by the Schaffhauser Strassenbahn (SchSt). On October 1, 1964, the trains on the overland route were replaced by buses . From then on, the company traded as the Schaffhausen – Schleitheim ( ASS ) car connection , and since 2001 it has been called the Schaffhausen RVSH AG regional transport company. The stock corporation mostly operates under the marketing name SchaffhausenBus and also operates lines 22 to 28.

In 2019, the regional transport company Schaffhausen merged with the transport company Schaffhausen to form the transport company Schaffhausen vbsh .

prehistory

In 1863 the Hochrheinbahn from Basel to Constance was opened. It led through the Klettgau in the canton of Schaffhausen. The route tried to make a compromise possible, as the various municipalities competed for a rail connection. With the exception of Beringen , the communities along the Randen could not be taken into account.

When the decision to build the Wutach Valley Railway was decided in 1870 , the idea of ​​a standard gauge connection from Stühlingen to Beringen came up. In 1872 the Swiss Confederation granted a concession to build a connection from Stühlingen to Beringen, and in 1875 a state treaty was even signed. However, due to the slowdown in the railway boom , the idea was never realized.

Large parts of the canton of Schaffhausen had a rail connection by the end of the 19th century . The government council of the canton of Schaffhausen therefore considered it appropriate for the canton to take the construction of a narrow-gauge railway into its own hands. On February 14, 1904, the canton's voters approved the decree on the construction and operation of the Schaffhausen – Schleitheim tram.

Route description

The kilometering of the overland route began with the passage under the Hochrheinbahn ; this took place in the course of the Klettgauerstrasse. This was followed by the Kreuzstrasse stop before the Engi was then crossed - this is the name given to the cut between the Buechbüel and the Galgenbuck. The first alternative point was at the Engihof , the official station name was Engehof . The route now led along the main road 14 via Beringen and Löhningen to Siblingen . The three locations each had a train station , and Siblingen also had the depot and workshop. The Beringer station was called Beringen StSS to separate it from the Beringen Bad Bf station on the Hochrheinbahn .

The apex of the route was at the Siblingerhöhe pass , where there was also a stop of the same name. In the further course it led without stopping past the settlement Näppental to the stop Hohbrugg , then following the valley to the train station Schleitheim , where there was also a depot. The Oberwiesen-Stühlingen terminus followed shortly afterwards , directly in front of the customs post for Germany. The Stühlingen station on the Wutachtalbahn was about half a kilometer away from there, and it was about a kilometer to the center of Stühlingen.

The infrastructure boundary between the SchSt and StSS also ran initially when passing under the Hochrheinbahn. The 780 meter long section between the Neuhausen Scheidegg stop and the Hochrheinbahn viaduct initially belonged to the SchSt and was not handed over to the StSS until 1908. Nevertheless, this section was electrified from the start with the 900 volts direct current that is common on the overland route. On the 1.74-kilometer route between Schaffhausen station and Neuhausen Scheidegg, on the other hand, the StSS trains ran under the 600 volts direct current common in city operations. However, they did not serve all intermediate stops of the city tram, only stopped at the stations Schaffhausen Kreuz and Neuhausen Rheinhof. The freight trains drove another 0.6 kilometers beyond the passenger station to the freight station. With these trains, goods traffic on the Schaffhausen tram network began in 1905.

A total of 13.7 kilometers of the 16.421 kilometer long overland route ran flush with the road. Only between Siblingen and the Siblingerhöhe there were two short sections on the Eigenentrassee, which were mainly due to the fact that the railway line used a larger curve radius than the road. There were no major engineering structures. Vignole rails were used for the most part , the railway only ran on grooved rails in the through-town areas .

vehicles

Motor vehicle

The staff of the StSS depot and workshop in Siblingen in the early days of rail operations around 1905, behind them the CFe 4/4 No. 3 passenger / luggage railcar.

The Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft (SIG), together with the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon (MFO), delivered four CFe 4/4 1–4 multiple units at the start of operations . They offered space for 36 passengers and also had a luggage compartment. They were originally 25 km / h fast, but were later converted to 40 km / h. They were 15 meters long and weighed 20 tons. Due to the positive traffic development, the same companies delivered the fifth CFe 4/4 5 multiple unit in 1907. One year after the start of operations, the above-mentioned companies delivered the Fe 2/2 51 luggage multiple unit. It was later renamed Xe 2/2 51 CFe 4/4 6 supplied.

pendant

The train had eight two-axle passenger cars C 11-18 and a four-axle passenger cars C4 61. There were also nine covered freight cars K 21-29, five gondolas L 31-35, four-axle Holztransportwagen M 41-44 and a four-axle Holztransportwagen M 46 available.

Relics

Former Station building Löhningen
  • Station building Löhningen
  • Freight shed Siblingen
  • Siblingen depot
  • Bus shelter Siblingerhöhe
  • Goods shed Schleitheim

literature

  • Jürg Zimmermann, Richard Gerbig: The Schaffhausen trams. History and rolling stock since 1901. Verlag Peter Meili, Schaffhausen 1976- ISBN 3-85805-052-0
  • Florian Inäbnit: Electric tram Schaffhausen – Schleitheim . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2000, ISBN 3-907579-14-3
  • 75 years of StSS / ASS . Supplement to the Schaffhauser Nachrichten, the Schaffhauser AZ, the Klettgauer Zeitung and the Schleitheimer Bote. Stamm + Co publishing house, Schleitheim 1980

Web links

Commons : Strassenbahn Schaffhausen – Schleitheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Law on the regional transport company Schaffhausen of August 21, 2000 , accessed on March 4, 2012 (PDF; 19 kB)
  2. Description on topographic map sheet 1031 from 1957
  3. Strassenbahn Schaffhausen - Schleitheim (StSS) In: discontinued-bahnen.ch by Jürg Ehrbar, accessed on June 13, 2020