Trolleybus Neuchâtel
Trolleybus Neuchâtel | |
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Basic information | |
Country | Switzerland |
city | Neuchâtel |
opening | February 16, 1940 |
Infrastructure | |
Route length | 25.7 km |
Power system | 600 volts direct current |
business | |
Lines | 3 |
Line length | 25.7 km |
vehicles | 34 |
Network plan 2020 |
The Neuchâtel trolleybus is the trolleybus system of the Swiss city of Neuchâtel in the canton of Neuchâtel . In addition, the neighboring municipalities of Auvernier , Peseux , Corcelles-Cormondrèche , Hauterive , Saint-Blaise and La Tène are served, until 1969 Valangin - where there was a link with the neighboring trolleybus Val de Ruz . The Neuchâtel trolleybus was opened in 1940 and gradually replaced the former Neuchâtel city tram until 1976 . The cumulative line length is now 25.7 kilometers, and 10.6 million passengers are carried annually.
The company has been owned by Transports Publics Neuchâtelois SA , or transN for short , since 2012 . Before that, the Neuchâtel trolleybus network was part of the Transports en commun de Neuchâtel et environs ( TN ). transN also operates the interurban tram to Boudry and various bus routes . The company also operated a further trolleybus network in the region until May 2014 with the temporarily discontinued La Chaux-de-Fonds trolleybus.
Lines
There are three trolleybus routes, including two diameter lines and one radial line . The three-digit line numbers were introduced for the timetable change in December 2013, before that the lines 1, 2, 7 and 8. The two radial lines 102 and 108 were first operationally and later fully linked to form a cross-city line 102.
line | route | length | Stops | Travel time | Cycle in minutes | Courses |
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101 | Cormondrèche - Place Pury - Marin-Epagnier Gare | 12.9 km | 42/43 | 39/40 minutes | 7.5 minutes | 13 |
102 | Serrières - Place Pury - Temple des Valangines | 4.7 km | 17/20 | 14/19 minutes | 10 mins | 4th |
107 | Place Pury - Hauterive, Poste (- Marin-Epagnier Gare) | 8.1 km | 26/26 | 26/23 minutes | 7.5 minutes | 6th |
history
The individual route sections went into operation as follows:
February 16, 1940 | Place Pury – Serrières |
May 21, 1949 | Place Pury – Terreaux – Temple des Valangines |
July 1, 1949 | Place Pury – Vauseyon – Valangin (- Cernier ) |
June 30, 1957 | Place Pury – Monruz |
August 29, 1957 | Monruz – Sentier Gare CFF – Saint-Blaise |
1964 | Terreaux – Rochettes – La Coudre |
1964 | Rochettes – Gare CFF |
1969 | La Coudre-Hauterive |
July 11, 1976 | Vauseyon-Corcelles-Collège |
August 30, 1976 | Corcelles-Collège-Cormondrèche |
October 9, 1978 | Saint-Blaise-Marin-Epagnier Gare |
1991 | Hauterive – Sentier Gare CFF |
The overland route to Cernier served by the former line 4 - it replaced the tram that originally only ran to Valangin - was shut down again on November 3, 1969. This was a joint line with the Compagnie des Transports du Val-de-Ruz ( VR ), the section Valangin - Boudevilliers - Fontaines - Cernier belonged to the Val de Ruz trolleybus. Between Neuchâtel and Valangin, VR trolleybuses drove under TN catenary, in the Valangin – Cernier section, corresponding TN wagons under VR infrastructure.
On June 10, 2001, the short connection between Rochettes and Gare CFF was also discontinued. It was served by line 6 Place Pury-Gare CFF, on which replacement diesel bus services took place from March 18, 2001.
vehicles
The following vehicles have been procured for the Neuchâtel trolleybus over the years; the vehicles currently in use are highlighted in gray:
Numbers | piece | Manufacturer | Electrics | Type | Art | low-floor | Years of construction | Remarks | |
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1-3 | 3 | Saurer / Eggli | BBC | Solo car | No | 1940 | Number 2 today a museum car belonging to the Association Neuchâteloise des Amis du Tramway | ||
11–17, from 1980: 111–117 |
7th | Saurer / Hess | SAAS | Solo car | No | 1949 | (1) 15 in VST standard paint | ||
6th | 1 | FBW / Tüscher | Solo car | No | 1939 | Used in 1951, taken over from the Zurich trolleybus , number 53 there, parked in 1976 | |||
21–30, from 1980: 121–130 |
10 | Saurer / Hess | SAAS | Solo car | No | 1956-1957 | (1) 22, (1) 23, (1) 25, (1) 26 and (1) 28 in VST standard paint | ||
181-182, from 1980: 381-382 |
2 | Draize | - | pendant | No | 1957-1958 | Discarded in 1983 | ||
183, from 1980: 383 |
1 | FBW / Moser | - | pendant | No | 1957 | Used in 1976, taken over by Auto AG Rothenburg , previously used as bus trailer number 54 by the Lucerne transport company until 1974, VST standard paintwork in Neuchâtel, decommissioned in 1983 | ||
31–40, from 1980: 131–140 |
10 | Saurer / Hess | SAAS | Solo car | No | 1964 | |||
7-10, from 1980: 107-110 |
4th | FBW / Gangloff | BBC | Solo car | No | 1942 | Used in 1967 taken over from the trolleybus in Bern , there numbers 13-16 | ||
51–60, from 1980: 151–160 |
10 | FBW / Hess | BBC / SAAS | 91 GTS | Articulated trolley | No | 1976 | VST standard painting | |
161-172 | 12 | FBW / Hess | BBC Sécheron | 91 GTS | Articulated trolley | No | 1983-1984 | ||
103-104, 106-107, 110-112 |
7th | NAW / Hess | FIG | BGT 5-25 | Articulated trolley | No | 1991 | ||
121-125 | 5 | Hess | Box | BGT-N2 | Articulated trolley | Yes | 1996 | Used in 2013 (123–125) and 2014 (121–122) taken from La Chaux-de-Fonds. In Neuchâtel, only cars 124 and 125 were in use; car 123, which had been damaged in an accident when it was taken over, was cannibalized as a spare parts donor and scrapped in the same year. | |
101-102, 105, 108-109, 113-120, 621 |
14th | NAW / Hess | FIG | BGT 5-25 | Articulated trolley | No | 1991 | 621 formerly 121, renumbering took place in 2013 | |
131-150 | 20th | Hess | Box | BGT-N2C | Articulated trolley | Yes | 2009-2011 |
The last solo cars were withdrawn from the stock in 1991. Because no low-floor trolleys were available before the delivery of the type BGT-N2C, low-floor buses were used in mixed traffic on routes 1 and 7 between 2004 and 2010 . The aim was to offer passengers at least individual, barrier-free journeys marked in the timetable. Since the last Zurich O 405 GTZ was taken out of service in 2015, Neuchâtel is also the last Swiss trolleybus operator to operate purely high-floor trolleybus routes.
literature
- Jean-Philippe Coppex: The Swiss overland trolleybuses . Verlag Endstation Ostring, Geneva 2008, ISBN 978-3-9522545-3-0 (French, German)
Web links
- Official website of the TN
- The Neuchâtel trolleybus on trolleymotion.ch
- Picture gallery on railfaneurope.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Neuchâtel trolleybus on trolleymotion.com
- ↑ Ligne 1 Neuchâtel - St-Blaise ( Memento of the original of February 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 anat.ch
- ↑ Ligne 2 Neuchâtel - Serrières ( Memento des Originals from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 anat.ch
- ↑ Ligne 7 Place Pury - La Coudre ( Memento of the original of November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 anat.ch
- ↑ Trolleybus Saurer 2 ( Memento of the original from May 25, 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. on anat.ch
- ↑ La Chaux-de-Fonds: decision postponed . ( Memento of the original from September 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. trolleymotion.eu, July 28, 2014
- ↑ Information on the Neuchâtel trolleybus. trolleymotion.com