Trolleybus Bern
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Trolleybus network from December 15, 2019
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Route length: | 21.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 600 V = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operator: | Municipal Transport Company Bern (SVB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opening: | October 29, 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lines: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stops: | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vehicles: | 20th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Trolleybus Bern is the trolleybus system of the Swiss federal city of Bern . It is operated by the public transport company Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe Bern , or SVB for short , which has mostly been marketed under the marketing name Bernmobil since 2000 . This also operates the Bern tram , which has been in existence since 1890, and a large part of the urban bus service that began in 1924 . The trolleybus went into operation in 1940 and today consists of three lines with a cumulative length of 21.7 kilometers that serve a total of 35 stops . Like the other means of transport in the region, the Bern trolleybus is also integrated into the Bern-Solothurn fare network.
Lines
The line network has been in this form since December 15, 2019. The lines have been regrouped for this purpose.
Line icon | Route | Line style | Stops | Monday-Friday |
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11 | Bern train station - Bollwerk - Brückfeld - Neufeld P + R | Radial line | 7th | 7.5 to 10 minutes |
12 | Holligen - Inselspital - Bern train station - Schosshalde - Paul Klee Center | Diameter line | 16 | 5 to 6 minutes |
20th | Länggasse - Bern train station - Bollwerk - Wyleregg - Wankdorf train station | Diameter line | 15th | 4 to 6 minutes |
The repeaters of line 20, which were already used by gas or diesel buses before the timetable change, were outsourced for the timetable change. You are now taking bus line 18 from Bern train station to Wyleregg.
Traffic performance
In 2010, the Bern trolleybus provided the following transport services:
- Kilometers driven: 1,439,000, this corresponds to 15 percent of the total transport volume of Bernmobil
- Passengers transported: 21,762,000, this corresponds to 23 percent of the total transport performance of Bernmobil
- Passenger- kilometers: 29,376,000, this corresponds to 16 percent of the total transport performance of Bernmobil
history
On December 2nd and 3rd, 1939, the citizens of Bern decided to introduce the trolleybus as the third means of urban transport. On October 29, 1940, it began operating on line S - which was later renamed line 12 - between Bärengraben and Schosshalde and initially only served as a tram feeder. In the beginning, the municipal trams Bern (SSB) was responsible, while the company Stadt-Omnibus Bern (SOB) was responsible for bus traffic . It was not until September 1, 1947 that the two companies merged to form the Bern Municipal Transport Authority.
On January 22, 1941, the 4.22 kilometer long trolleybus line 12 finally took over the section Bern Bahnhof – Bärengraben from tram line 8. Due to a lack of fuel, the 3.7 kilometer long bus route to Bümpliz was switched to a trolleybus on July 5, 1941 . In order to avoid crossings with the tram, passengers had to change trains to and from the city center at the Insel stop. On May 9, 1948, the Bümplizer line was switched back to bus service.
In 1961 the bus line Bern Bahnhof – Länggasse was electrified, until 1959 the tram operated there and connected with the trolley bus line 12 to Schosshalde. On September 24, 1972, the voters approved the proposal for the electrification of three further bus routes, these concerned:
- line 14 Bern station – Bümpliz underpass – Gäbelbach on October 27, 1974
- line 20 Bern Bahnhof – Wyler on April 15, 1975
- line 13 Bern station – Bümpliz underpass – Bümpliz on July 28, 1975
Lines 13 and 14 were also extended in the course of electrification. In addition, on May 18, 1977, line 11 followed from the freight yard to Brückfeld. This in turn was extended on May 5, 1992 by almost half a kilometer to the new park-and-ride car park in Neufeld.
On June 20, 2005, line 12 was extended by around 650 meters from Schosshalde to Zentrum Paul Klee. As early as July 1 of the same year, the trolleybus network shrank again when lines 13 and 14 were temporarily switched to bus operation as part of the Tram Bern-West project before the tram took over the service of these two western branches in 2010.
Since December 13, 2015, line 11 no longer runs to the freight yard, but instead on Freiburgstrasse via Inselspital to Holligen . The former Inselspital stop, which is about 200 meters from the main hospital building, has been renamed Inselplatz and the Güterbahnhof stop is now served by the PostBus line 101.
With the timetable change on December 15, 2019, the line branches west of the station were swapped: Line 11 was shortened from Holligen to the station, line 12 was relocated from Länggasse to Holligen and line 20 was extended from the station to Länggasse. Since then, the amplifiers on line 20 (which run on gas or diesel buses) have been running as their own line 18 (station - Wyleregg).
vehicles
Current inventory
By 2017, 20 wagons were available, exclusively low-floor articulated wagons of the type BGT-N2 with electrical equipment from Kiepe , also known as Swistrolley 2. They were obtained as follows:
- First delivery lot:
- 1997: 1 II to 4 II
- 1998: 5 II to 8 II
- Second delivery lot:
- 1999: 9 II to 16 II
- 2000: 17 II , 18 to 20
These cars were decommissioned between December 2017 (car 8 after the accident on August 19, 2017) and November 12, 2018 (car 3 and 10)
In order to replace the Swistrolley 2 and to create greater transport capacity, Bern received the following trolleys between 2017 and 2019:
- Articulated trolleybuses 21 II to 28 II 2017 (Swisstrolley 5)
- Articulated trolleybuses 31 II to 36 II 2018 (Swisstrolley 5)
- Double articulated trolleybuses 41 II to 47 II 2018 ( Hess lighTram 5 )
- Double articulated trolleybuses 48 II to 54 II 2019 ( Hess lighTram 5 )
Originally, Swisstrolley 5 to number 39 were intended. Instead, three were canceled and seven more double-articulated trolleybuses were ordered. For reasons not known, numbers 29 and 30 are unoccupied. Blickpunkt Strassenbahn wrote about this: "Due to changes compared to cars 21-28, a new series with the number 31 began, so 29 and 30 remain free."
Former inventory
Numbers | piece | Years of construction | Years of use | Manufacturer | Electrics | Type | Remarks |
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1, 2, 9-12 | 6th | 1940-1941 | 1940-1966 | FBW / Ramseier & Jenzer / Gangloff | BBC / MFO | 1 | solo |
3-8 | 6th | 1940-1941 | 1940-1965 | Saurer / Gangloff | MFO | 4 TP | solo |
13-16 | 4th | 1942 | 1942-1966 | FBW / Gangloff | BBC | 2 | solo |
17th | 1 | 1942 | 1942-1967 | Saurer / Ramseier & Jenzer | MFO | 4 TP | solo |
21-29 | 9 | 1961 | 1961-1998 | FBW / Ramseier & Jenzer | MFO | GTr51 | Joint, nickname pinball machine |
30-55 | 26th | 1974 | 1974-2006 | FBW / Hess / Ramseier & Jenzer / Gangloff | SAAS | 91 GTL | Joint, from number 46 with VST standard painting (1) |
56-61 | 6th | 1977 | 1977-2006 | FBW / Hess | SAAS | 91 GTL | Joint, VST standard painting |
62-66 | 5 | 1985 | 1985-2009 | Volvo / Ramseier & Jenzer | BBC Sécheron | B10M-55 | Articulated (4) |
67-69 | 3 | 1974 | 1992-1994 | FBW / Hess | SAAS | 91 GTS | Articulated (2) |
1 to 20 | 20th | 1997-2000 | 1997-2018 | Hess | Box | BGT-N2 (Swisstrolley 2) | joint |
no | 1 | 1991 | 1991 | NAW / Hess | FIG | BGT-N | Articulated, low floor (3) |
(1) = Car 30 was a demonstration car for Swiss industry before it was commissioned in Bern and was used as a demonstration vehicle in Switzerland and abroad, for example in Vancouver . After a heating defect it burned out in 1976, but was rebuilt in 1977 in its own workshop. Car 55 was later used as a demonstration vehicle in Solingen and Arnhem, among others .
(2) = Rental car from the Neuchâtel trolleybus , used during the winter of 1992/93 and 1993/94. The planned takeover did not materialize. 67 formerly Neuchâtel 156, 68 formerly Neuchâtel 158, 69 formerly Neuchâtel 160.
(3) = Demonstration car of the type BGT-N , this was then used by all Swiss trolleybus companies except the Lugano trolleybus .
(4) = Joint order with articulated trolleys 61-66 of the Biel / Bienne trolleybus .
In addition, a type 4R trailer manufactured by Saurer or Gangloff was available from 1943 to 1960 . It was procured by the Stadt-Omnibus Bern, initially had the number 101 and was renumbered 201 in 1956. The trailer was used in both trolleybus and bus transport; trolleybus 6 and buses 54 and 55 were equipped to take along.
Whereabouts
The eleven cars with the numbers 33, 34, 46, 53, 54 and 56 to 61 were handed over to the Romanian city of Brașov in 2006 , where they are still in use. The former carriages 13, 28 and 59 are in the care of the Tramverein Bern ( TVB ), the trolleybus 38 is owned by the Trolleybusverein Schweiz ( TVS ). Car 55 came to the Obus-Museum Solingen e. V. and is the only one of the five Bernese trolleybuses preserved for museum purposes to be operational. Cars 3, 11 and 16 to 20 (Swisstrolley 2) were sold to the Sarajevo trolleybus in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2019 , where they will continue to be used and renew the vehicle fleet.
Web links
- Official website of the operator Bernmobil
- Trolleybus Bern at trolleymotion.com
- Picture gallery on railfaneurope.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of all timetable changes from December 15, 2019. Bernmobil, accessed on March 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Bern: Again three trolleybus lines ( memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on trolleymotion.com
- ↑ Annual Report 2010 ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2015 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. (PDF; 2.5 MB)
- ↑ History section ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 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. on trolleymotion.com
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/bernmobil/photos/a.501873409838577/2898662480159646/?type=3&theater
- ↑ https://www.bahnforum.ch/index.php/Thread/5294-Trolleybusse-und-Trolleybetrieb/?postID=625332#post625332
- ↑ BLICKPUNKT TRAM Issue 4/2018