Cisalpine

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Cisalpine


Train type: 1961-1984: TEE
1984-1987: TGV , IC
1987-2003: TGV , EC
Countries: FranceFrance France Switzerland Italy
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
ItalyItaly 
Predecessor: Simplon Orient Express
First drive: July 1, 1961
Last drive: May 17, 2003
Former operator: SBB , FS and SNCF
route
Departure station: Paris Gare de Lyon
Destination station: 1961–1993:
Milano Centrale
1974–1979:
Venezia St. Lucia
1993–2003: Lausanne
Railway line: Simplon route
Route length: 822 km
Technical specifications
Rolling stock: 1961–1974:
SBB RAe TEE II
1974–1984:
Locomotives
FS E.444 , SBB Re 4/4 II and SNCF CC 21000
with Mistral 69 cars
1984–2003 :
TGV Sud-Est
Gauge (s) : 1435 mm
Power system (s): 1500 V =
3000 V =
15 kV 16 2 / 3  Hz
25 Hz 50 kV
Train run


Traction current systems :
France: 1500 V and 25 kV , Switzerland: 15 kV , Italy: 3000 V.

The TEE Cisalpin was an international European long-distance train ( Trans-Europ-Express ) that connected Paris with Milan . The train owes its name to the Roman name of the Po plain. Literally: this side of the Alps.

The pair of trains was introduced in the summer of 1961. In Switzerland it carried the train numbers 39 and 50, from 1963 to 1967 35 and 36. Intermediate stops were Dijon , Vallorbe (from 1962), Lausanne , Brig and Domodossola . Were used as vehicles modern four power unit trains of the Swiss series RAe TEE II . 1974 Cisalpin was on with locomotives hauled trains changed, for which the passenger car , the INOX-TEE cars of the SNCF ( SNCF ) were used, of which the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) also had 5 pieces.

Train run

Winter timetable 1970/71 according to the official Swiss timetable:

TEA 14 country railway station km TEA 13
15:00 ItalyItaly Italy Milano Centrale 0 21:08
16:15 ItalyItaly Italy Domodossola 125 19:54
16:45 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Brig 167 19:24
18:13 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Lausanne 313 17:57
18:48 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Vallorbe 360 17:20
20:18 FranceFrance France Dijon 507 15:36
22:44 FranceFrance France Paris Gare de Lyon 822 13:15

From 1974 to 1979 the connection, now run as TEE 22 and 23, was extended to Venice in the summer months . There was also a stop in Sion in 1975 and in Dole in 1978 . In January 1984 the connection was finally discontinued and partly replaced by TGV trains. However, these only run daily between Paris and Lausanne.

The connection from Paris Gare de Lyon to Milano Porta Garibaldi is now served several times a day by TGV, but the route no longer runs through Switzerland, but via Lyon Part Dieu , Modane and Torino Porta Susa .

Accidents

On October 5, 1962, TEE Cisalpin, traveling to Paris, suffered a serious accident near the Montbard train station . The almost brand new RAe TEE II 1053 of the SBB drove at 140 km / h into a tank car that had crashed on the opposite track and protruded into the clearance profile , derailed, overturned and then rammed a stone guard's house. The accident left ten dead and eleven injured. Control car 1, damaged in the accident, was broken off and replaced by a new vehicle.

On June 26, 1964, the RAe TEE II 1052 drove on a level crossing between Vaux-et-Chantegrue and Labergement-Sainte-Marie in a truck loaded with bitumen , with three fatalities and 20 injured.

literature

  • Center for public relations UIC: TEE . Ed .: Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer. Paris 1972 (Dutch).
  • DB advertising office: Right of way in Europe, TEE 1971/72 . Ed .: Deutsche Bundesbahn. Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • Peter Goette, Peter Willen: TEE trains in Switzerland and Swiss TEE trains abroad . Ed .: EK Verlag. Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-88255-697-8 .
  • Hans-Bernhard Schönborn: The TEE trains in Switzerland . Ed .: GeraMond Verlag. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7654-7122-4 .
  • Christian Zellweger: Icon of the luxury trains . Ed .: SBB Historic, AS Verlag. Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-905111-95-0 .
  • Jörg Hajt: The big TEE book . Ed .: Heel. Bonn / Königswinter 2001, ISBN 3-89365-948-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Center for public relations UIC: TEE . Ed .: Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer. Paris 1972, p. 14 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ General Directorate of the Swiss Federal Railways (Ed.): Official course book of Switzerland . 27. IX. 1970 - 22. V. 1971. Winter. Operations department of the general management of SBB, Bern 1970, timetable fields D1 (London · Paris via Genève et Vallorbe) and 20 (Domodossola – Simplon – Brig – St-Maurice – Lausanne / Genève – Vallorbe) .
  3. ↑ Le "Cisalpin" déraille: 3 mort 20 blessés, dont 2 Lausannois. In: Gazette de Lausanne, Lausanne. June 27, 1964, p. 16 , accessed on November 18, 2013 (French, in Le Temps - archives historiques).