Stansstad – Stans tram
| Stansstad – Stans | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 3.47 km | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 550 volts = | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 10 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 50 m | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Stansstad – Stans tram , or StSt for short , was an electric, meter-gauge cross - country tram in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden .
history
The Stanserhorn Railway (SthB) opened in 1893 . The builder of this line, Franz Josef Bucher , then suggested the construction of a tram from Stansstad to Stans . It was supposed to create a connection between the steamship landing stage on Lake Lucerne and the valley station of the funicular . The tram went into operation on August 26, 1893 and transported day trippers and locals to Stans.
When the meter-gauge Stansstad – Engelberg Railway (StEB) from Stansstad via Stans to Engelberg was opened in 1898 , the StSt lost some of its passengers due to this competitive situation and was shut down on September 30, 1903.
Infrastructure
There were grooved rails of the type 2a Phoenix used with a meter weight of 24 kilograms. The straight track bays had a length of nine meters. These were not laid on sleepers, but only connected with tie rods, which were attached every 2.25 meters. The track was covered with gravel. The superstructure turned out to be too light, and it was poorly laid. It was causing problems all the time. The smallest radius on the route was 50 meters, the radius of the switches 40 meters. The three turnouts had a usable length of around 60 meters. They were in the Stansstad station, in Gerbi and in front of the Stanserhornbahn in Stans.
The overhead line was attached to wooden poles with steel brackets. The masts were 30 to 40 meters apart and carried an iron feed line. This was connected to the single-wire copper contact line at a distance of 100 meters. The air switches of the overhead line, which were initially present at the crossing points, were dismantled as a result of constant disruptions, so that one of the railcars had to take its pantograph with contact strip from the contact line when a crossing was pending.
The two-tier depot was located next to the Stanserhornbahn, it was connected to the siding via a turntable .
vehicles
Three two-axle railcars as well as two trailer cars and two freight cars were purchased. The three two-class railcars BCe 1/2 1 to 3 were supplied by the Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft (SIG). The two passenger cars B 2 11 and 12 also came from SIG and were open summer cars . Their undercarriage corresponded to that of the motor vehicle. They had 18 second class seats. The freight cars had an axle base of two meters and a total length of four meters. The boxcars K 21 was like the gondolas L 22 a load capacity of five tons.
The B 2 11 got usable windows in 1894 and, like the motor car No. 1, which had meanwhile been converted into a BCe 2/2, was sold to the former Lucerne Tramway (TrL). In Lucerne, railcar 1 was converted to the C 50 trailer and was in use until 1945. B 11 was C 51 in Lucerne and was also discarded in 1945. The K 21 was scrapped and demolished in 1900, and the L 22 was redesignated as the L 21 and sold to a private person in Giswil in 1905. Their whereabouts are not known.
literature
- Christoph Berger: Electric tram Stansstad – Stans . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 1993, ISBN 3-85884-050-5 .
- Peter Berger, Hans Waldburger, Christoph Berger: Railways to Engelberg . Minirex AG, Lucerne 1998, ISBN 3-907014-10-3 .
- Christoph Berger: The little book from the Stanserhorn . Odermatt, Dallenwil 2005, ISBN 3-907164-12-1 .
Web links
- Tram Stansstad - Stans (StSt) In: discontinued-bahnen.ch by Jürg Ehrbar
