Trolleybus Neuchâtel

Trolleybus Neuchâtel
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
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	04.7 km	17/20	14/19 minutes	10 mins	04th
107	Place Pury - Hauterive, Poste (- Marin-Epagnier Gare)	08.1 km	26/26	26/23 minutes	7.5 minutes	06th

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
	1-3	03	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	07th	Saurer / Hess	SAAS		Solo car	No	1949	(1) 15 in VST standard paint
	6th	01	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	02	Draize	-		pendant	No	1957-1958	Discarded in 1983
	183, from 1980: 383	01	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	04th	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	07th	NAW / Hess	FIG	BGT 5-25	Articulated trolley	No	1991
	121-125	05	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

Commons : Trolleybuses in Neuchâtel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the TN
• The Neuchâtel trolleybus on trolleymotion.ch
• Picture gallery on railfaneurope.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Neuchâtel trolleybus on trolleymotion.com
2. ↑ 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 
3. ↑ 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 
4. ↑ 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 
5. ↑ 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 
6. ↑ 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 
7. ↑ Information on the Neuchâtel trolleybus. trolleymotion.com