Trogenerbahn

The Be 4/8 31 of the Trogenerbahn on January 3, 2006 at the Trogen terminus

The Trogenerbahn was a railway company based in Trogen , which operated an electric meter-gauge railway from St. Gallen station via Speicher to Trogen as well as an electricity station. Its official abbreviation was TB , it was merged with the Rorschach-Heiden-Bergbahn and the Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen into the company Appenzeller Bahnen with a merger agreement of May 4, 2006 (absorption fusion). Trogenerbahn AG was owned by the federal government (37.2%), the cantons of St. Gallen and Appenzell Ausserrhoden , the municipalities of St. Gallen , Speicher and Trogen passed through and private individuals (3.7%).

history

Terminal station Trogen, 2009

The company was founded as the St. Gallen – Speicher – Trogen tram on July 26, 1900 in Trogen. On July 10, 1903, the company was able to open the St. Gallen – Trogen railway line ; the day before, a stagecoach ran between St. Gallen and Trogen for the last time . On October 30, 1909, the Federal Assembly granted the Trogenerbahn the license to extend it to Heiden and Walzenhausen . However, this remained unused and has now expired.

The line was initially electrified with 750 volts DC . The initiators were of the opinion that running a side business for the distribution of electrical energy would have a positive impact on the railways' finances. As a result, the construction of a pipeline network began in the autumn of 1900 and as early as 1901 incandescent lamps were working in the storage facilities and troughs. In addition, an installation and electrical specialist shop was set up from 1904. The ancillary business was initially spun off into a subsidiary Elektro Speicher-Trogen AG (EST) in 2001 and the corporate purpose of “building and operating systems for the supply of electrical energy to third parties and electrical installation businesses” was deleted from the articles of association. In March 2006, before the merger, EST was sold to the municipalities of Speicher (45%), Trogen (35%) and the city of St. Gallen (20%) with a profit of 1.5 million Swiss francs. These in turn were sold by EST on October 1, 2011 to St. Gallisch-Appenzellische Kraftwerke AG (SAK), which EST merged into its own company in February 2013.

In mid-1991 the Trogenerbahn withdrew from direct wagonload traffic, and since then the freight wagons have only been used for mail and own transport. The mail transport survived the merger for another year.

For the maintenance of the vehicles, the company operated a workshop in Speicher, which also housed the administration and electronics shop. After the merger, the building was still used by the Appenzeller Bahnen for vehicle maintenance and removal.

Vehicle fleet up to the merger

Vehicles and changes from 2006 see Appenzeller Bahnen (meter gauge network)

BDe 4/4 number 7 in orange VST uniform paint, parked in Bendlehn, September 2017

BDe 4/8 22 on the overland section

Former Trogenerbahn supporter with the international Rhine regulation railway

Railcar

• CFZe 4/4 1–5 (1903, 1906) SIG / MFO , discarded 1954–77, No. 1 and 1975 painted as Wetzikon-Meilen-Bahn CFe 4/4 3, restored from 1983 as WMB CFe 4/4 2, set up in Grüningen since 1992
• BDe 4/4 3 "-5" (1954) 1963 ex TL (Lausanne – Moudon), 1978 to S&H (Gmunden – Vorchdorf)
• CFe 4/4 6–8 (1952) No. 6 2005 to Madagascar, No. 7 since 2018 Restaurant in Wasserauen , No. 8 canceled in 2002
• Fe 2/2 21-22 (1903) from 1946 Xe 2/2, 1970 and 1968 broken off
• Xe 2/2 71 (1905) Schneeegemotorwagen, broken off in 1977

Official vehicle

• Xrotm 2/2 72 (1974), snow thrower

Multiple units

• BDe 4/8 21–25 (1975/77) 25 canceled in 2008, 21 and 24 handed over to the Rittner Bahn in South Tyrol on April 27, 2009
• Be 4/8 31–32 (2004) Stadler , low-floor multiple units
• Be 4/8 33–35 (2008) Stadler, low-floor multiple units

Passenger cars

• C 11-14 (1903-04) 1960,64 discarded
• B 11 "–14" (1930, 1954) 1963.70 ex TL (Lausanne – Moudon), discarded 2002–06, 11–13 sold to the railway of the international Rhine regulation (IRR) in Lustenau
• B 15–18 (1906–09), No. 18 1954 ex CFe 4/4 5, No. 15 1966/70 from, others 1958–66 provided with steel boxes, 18 1995 and 17 1999/2000 discarded / broken off, No. 16 1983–94 converted to the Brs 16 party car
• C 81–82 (1906) 1951 ex Altdorf – Flüelen C 10–11, summer carriage, also used as a ski carriage, 1964 to X2 176–177, redrawn to O ° 91–92 in 1965, broken off in 1975
• C 83–85 (1920) 1953 ex Steffisburg – Thun – Interlaken C 41–43, summer car, fitted with windows in 1958, broken off in 1975
• C 86-89 (1921) 1959 ex Steffisburg-Thun-Interlaken C 31 ", 32", 34 ", 35, 1970-74 canceled
• O ° 99 (1957) single-axle ski cart, designated X1 171 until 1965, discarded in 1973, broken off in 1974

Freight wagons

• K (Gk) 31–36 (1903–30), No. 36 1937 rebuilt from L 53, 33 and 35 Gk-v for postal transport, sold in 2008 to Furrer & Frey and BTG, other wagons in 1973, 1993, 1999 and 2011 broken off
• J (Gkb) 61–62 (1903/62) converted from L 41–42 in 1962, No. 62 2008 to Furrer & Frey
• L (Ek) 51–53 (1903–07), nos. 41–42 and 53 to J 61–62 and K 36, nos. 43–52 1973–2003 discarded, except no. 45, 2003 to BTG , no. 47 modernized in 1998 and renumbered to Ek 56
• L ° (Ek) 53 "(1903) 1950 ex WMB L ° 51, canceled in 1969
• L ° (Ek) 54 (1909) 1950 ex Uster – Oetwil-Bahn UOe L ° 61, discontinued in 1970
• L (Ek) 55 (1910) 1950 ex UOe L 63, modernized in 1996
• Ek 56 (1906), modernized in 1998, ex Ek 47

Company car

• X1 171 (1957), ski cart, redrawn to O ° 99 in 1965
• X 172 (1903), tower car, without number until 1957, broken off in 1997
• X 173 (1961) snow plow, underframe ex Altdorf-Flüelen L 20, discarded in 1968, broken off in 1974
• X 75 (1897/1957) Tool and auxiliary trolley ex Tram St. Gallen VBSG C 75, broken off in 1965
• X 76-77 (1897, 1911/1958) Salt storage wagons ex VBSG B 73 and 67, broken off in 1972

literature

• Jürg Aeschlimann, Hans Waldburger: St. Gallen – Speicher – Trogen tram; The Trogenerbahn . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2003, ISBN 3-907579-24-0
• Daniel Brugger: 75 years of the Trogenerbahn 1903–1978. The history of the Trogenerbahn 1903–1978. Trogenerbahn publishing house, Speicher 1978

Web links

Commons : Trogenerbahn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel Brugger: 75 years Trogenerbahn 1903–1978. The history of the Trogenerbahn 1903–1978. Verlag Trogenerbahn, Speicher 1978, page 90
2. ^ Daniel Brugger: 75 years Trogenerbahn 1903–1978. The history of the Trogenerbahn 1903–1978. Verlag Trogenerbahn, Speicher 1978, pages 94-98.
3. ↑ Internet extract Trogenerbahn AG in the commercial register of the canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden  ( 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. as well as Internet excerpt from Elektro Speicher-Trogen AG in the commercial register of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden  ( 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.    
4. ^ Annual report of the Appenzeller Bahnen 2006, page 23
5. ↑ Magazin Glasklar der SAK, online ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
6. ↑ St. Gallen – Speicher – Trogen tram; The Trogenerbahn p. 121–123