Trolleybus Winterthur

Trolleybus Winterthur
Swisstrolley number 120, a representative of the latest generation of trolleybuses
Basic information
Country	Switzerland
city	Winterthur
opening	December 28, 1938
operator	City bus Winterthur
Transport network	Zurich Transport Association
Infrastructure
Power system	600 V DC
Depots	1
business
Lines	4th
vehicles	34 (24 BGT-N1C and 10 Trollino 18 )
statistics
Mileage	22,300,000 (entire bus network)dep1
Map of the trolleybus network in Winterthur

The Trolleybus Winterthur is the trolleybus system of the Swiss city of Winterthur . The Stadtbus Winterthur company operates - in addition to various bus connections - four electric lines. All are cross-city lines and meet at Winterthur railway station , the city bus from Winterthur as the main station is called.

Lines

line	route	Stops	Travel time	Timing sequence HVZ	Exit HVZ	Remarks
1	Töss - Central Station - Oberwinterthur	23 stops	23/21 minutes	6 minutes	11 courses
2	Wülflingen - main station - lakes	25 stops	25/25 minutes	6 minutes	11 courses
2E	Castle - Central Station - Waldegg	14 stops	17/17 minutes	12/18 minutes	04 courses	Concentration of line 2 to HVZ aimed at the S-Bahn
3	Rosenberg - Central Station - Oberseen	26 stops	32/32 minutes	7.5 minutes	09 courses

During the renovation of the Winterthur Bahnhofplatz from July 4, 2012 to June 28, 2013, the lines on line 1 coming from Oberwinterthur ran from the main station as line 2 to Wülflingen, while the lines on line 2 coming from the direction of lakes stopped in Technikumstrasse and continued as line 1 to Töss.

history

Between 1938 and 1951, the trolleybus gradually replaced the Winterthur tram operated by the same company . After the trolleybus in Lausanne , it was the second modern trolleybus operator in Switzerland. The individual route sections went into operation as follows:

date	Route (length)	line	modification
December 28, 1938	Main station - Wülflingen Lindenplatz (3.1 km)	Line 2	Tram replacement
July 24, 1941	Main station - lakes (4.2 km)	Line 2	Tram replacement
April 26, 1948	Central station - Rosenberg	Line 3	Bus replacement
October 6, 1951	Main station - Oberwinterthur train station (2.9 km)	line 1	Tram replacement
November 3, 1951	Main station - center Töss (1.8 km)	line 1	Tram replacement
4th December 1960	Wülflingen Lindenplatz - Wülflingen Härti	Line 2	New development
4th December 1960	Hauptbahnhof - Breite - Hauptbahnhof	Line 3	Bus replacement
June 2, 1965	Center Töss - Töss Rieter	line 1	New development
August 16, 1982	Oberwinterthur train station - Oberwinterthur Wallrüti	line 1	New development
October 26, 1991	Central station - Oberseen	Line 6	Bus replacement
April 6, 2011	Cemetery / Schachenweg - Rosenberg	Line 3	New development

With the timetable change on May 23, 1982, the Rosenberg line (line 3) was separated from the Breitelinie (new line 4). This ring line 4 was switched back to diesel bus operation on May 28, 1995 with the construction of the new Storchenbrücke . The amplifier line 2E was introduced on schedule in December, 2014.

vehicles

Former

All previously retired Winterthur trolleybuses were high-floor wagons :

Numbers	piece	Manufacturer	Electrics	Type	Art	Years of construction
11-14	04th	More sour	SAAS		Solo car	1938
15-19	05	More sour	SAAS		Solo car	1941
20-25	06th	FBW / Saurer	SAAS		Solo car	1948
161	01	Moser / Ramseier + Jenzer	no		pendant	1953
101-105	05	FBW / SWS	MFO	GTr51	Articulated trolley	1958
50-57	08th	More sour	SAAS	4IILM	Solo car	1960
106-119	14th	Berna / SWP / Ramseier + Jenzer	SAAS	4 GTP	Articulated trolley	1965-66
120	01	Volvo / Hess	BBC / Strömberg		Articulated trolley, prototype	1974
121	01	Saurer / Hess	Stromberg		Articulated car, prototype, VST standard paint scheme	1978
122-131	10	Sour / sassy high	Stromberg	GT 560 / 640-25	Articulated trolley	1982-83
141-161	21st	Daimler Benz	FIG	O 405 GTZ	Articulated trolley	1988-92

New electrical equipment with a chopper control from Strömberg was installed in the prototype 120, but a used BBC drive motor from a decommissioned solo trolleybus was reused in order to save costs.

Car 147 was equipped with a de-icing device and served as a work car . Former Winterthur trolleybuses were handed over to the cities of Burgas and Russe in Bulgaria and Baia Mare and Timișoara in Romania . Some of them are still in use there.

Today's

The Winterthur trolleybus now has a total of 34 vehicles, but 35 vehicles are required at the same time during rush hour. This is why there is daily mixed operation with diesel buses, especially on the 2E booster line, but also on the other trolleybus lines . All Winterthur trolleybuses are low-floor articulated vehicles:

Numbers	piece	Manufacturer	Electrics	Type	Years of construction
101 to 124	24	Hess	Box	BGT-N1C	2010-12; 2014
171 to 180	10	Solaris	Cegelec	Trollino 18	2004-05

gallery

The trolleybus No. 18 from 1941 in 1959 in the Stadthausstrasse
The former Saurer trolleybus 56 from 1960, here in 2005 as number 13 on the Timișoara trolleybus
Saurer articulated tram 128 from 1982, taken in 2005 in Oberseen, has since been retired
A Mercedes-Benz O 405 GTZ at the train station
A Solaris Trollino 18 in Töss
A Hess Swistrolley at the main train station

literature

Hans-Peter Bärtschi: Tram and trolley in Winterthur . Buffer stop, Krattigen 2013.

Web links

Commons : Trolleybuses in Winterthur - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official website of Stadtbus Winterthur
Information on the Winterthur trolleybus at trolleymotion.ch

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Winterthur (CH) - Fourth trolleybus line introduced ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2015 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 trolleymotion.eu @1@ 2

↑ City bus news . (PDF) Winterthur city bus, November 2014

↑ leaflet chronicle of Winterthur transport companies . (PDF; 3.2 MB)

↑ Roger Tacheron: Trolleys for the width . In: The Landbote . December 5, 2002.

↑ Hess 1882–2007, 125 years of tradition, innovation, emotion . 2007, ISBN 3-85962-147-5 , p. 97

↑ Extension of trolleybus route 3 opened .

[2E-1] Winterthur (CH) - Fourth trolleybus line introduced ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2015 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 trolleymotion.eu @1@ 2

[2] City bus news . (PDF) Winterthur city bus, November 2014

[3] t chronicle of Winterthur transport companies . (PDF; 3.2 MB)

[4] Roger Tacheron: Trolleys for the width . In: The Landbote . December 5, 2002.

[5] Hess 1882–2007, 125 years of tradition, innovation, emotion . 2007, ISBN 3-85962-147-5 , p. 97

[6] Extension of trolleybus route 3 opened .