Régional du Val-de-Travers
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 Fleurier train station
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| Timetable field : | 221 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 13.59 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 15 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Travers – Buttes / –St-Sulpice | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Régional du Val-de-Travers ( RVT ), officially Compagnie du Chemin de fer Régional du Val-de-Travers , is a former railway company in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland , which runs the almost 14 km long Y-shaped RVT route from Travers via Fleurier to St-Sulpice or to Buttes . In 1999 it merged with the Chemins de fer des Montagnes Neuchâteloises (CMN) and the Transports du Val-de-Ruz (VR) to form the Transports Régionaux Neuchâtelois (TRN).
history
The "Compagnie du Chemin de fer regional du Val-de-Travers", based in Fleurier, was founded in 1881 with the aim of connecting the villages in the Val de Travers with a railway line.
The « Compagnie Franco-Suisse » had already opened a railway line through the Val-de-Travers on July 25, 1860, but this leads to the higher Vallon des Verrières and on to Pontarlier . In order to achieve the necessary height, the railway line from Travers was built on a slope, far away from the settlements in the valley floor.
The "Régional du Val-de-Travers" was therefore built parallel to the "Franco-Suisse" and took over the local development in the valley floor from Travers.
On September 24, 1883, the Travers – Fleurier railway (the seat of the company at that time and the location of the depot) –St-Sulpice was opened. On September 11, 1886, the Fleurier – Buttes railway was opened.
While the Franco-Suisse had already undergone its second name change due to mergers at the time the RVT was founded and was nationalized as the Jura-Simplon-Bahn (JS) to the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in May 1903 , the RVT remained unaffected.
The shortage of coal during the Second World War led to virtually complete electrification of the railway network in Switzerland; the Travers station has been live as part of the (Neuchâtel–) Auvernier – Les Verrières line since November 22, 1942. The RVT took over the power system of the SBB (15 kV 16⅔ Hz) and started electrical operation on its route on May 4, 1944. The final step towards electric traction at RVT was marked in 1951 with the demolition of its last own steam locomotive.
The rolling stock was renewed around 1965 on the basis of the so-called « Private Railway Aid Act ». From the concept for standardized types of rolling stock developed by the Federal Office of Transport (EAV) and the Swiss rolling stock industry, the RVT procured a so-called " EAV multiple unit " (103), three matching control cars (201-203) and two standard cars I (301-302) that made it possible to create commuter trains.
Passenger traffic on the 1.6-kilometer section Fleurier – St-Sulpice was finally shut down on June 2, 1973 and replaced by a bus. Since then, the former branch line to Buttes has been the end of the main RVT line. The route to St-Sulpice, where an RVT depot was located, was formally retained for freight traffic and business trips. In 2001 the catenary was dismantled.
The disused section of the line was revived for the 100th anniversary in 1983 with nostalgic trips and was given a new use in 1984 with the establishment of the Vapeur Val-de-Travers (VVT) steam train association . The VVT now maintains the depot at the end of the route in St-Sulpice and uses the route for steam journeys. In 2012 the concession for the Fleurier – St-Sulpice section was transferred to the Vapeur Val-de-Travers .
In parallel with the incremental timetable introduced in 1980, two new railcars were procured that corresponded to those of the new BLS shuttle trains and, for cost reasons, were procured in order pools from various private railways. The two " Privatbahn-NPZ " (104-105) with two driver's cabs delivered in 1983 replaced the EAV motorcar 103 from 1965, which was sold to the Martigny-Orsières-Bahn (MO); the EAV control cars 202–203, however, were used with the new railcars.
Between 1985 and 1991, additional rolling stock was procured, including two newer "Privatbahn-NPZ" (106-107) with only one driver's cab, three matching control cars (204-206) and four new intermediate cars (304-307). The RABDe 104 was sold to the Chemins de fer fribourgeois Gruyère – Friborg – Morat (GFM). The BLS sold their three ABDe 4/8 741-743 in 1991 to the Oensingen-Balsthal-Bahn (OeBB), which in turn sold the 743 to the RVT in 1994, where it was given the number 313 according to the new numbering scheme.
In 1999, the RVT merged with neighboring companies in which the Canton of Neuchâtel also held major stakes - the railway company Chemins de fer des Montagnes Neuchâteloises (CMN) and the bus company "Compagnie des Transports du Val-de-Ruz" (VR) formerly regional tramway du Val-de-Ruz (VR) - to the Transports Régionaux Neuchâtelois (TRN) .
Rolling stock
The RVT tended to orient itself towards the neighboring standard-gauge private railways when procuring rolling stock. Many vehicles are therefore either follow-up orders, come from joint orders coordinated by the EAV / BAV , or have been "swapped" with one another.
| model series | Manufacturer | Construction year | origin | number of pieces | Discarded | Remarks | |||
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| series | Numbers | total | today | ||||||
| Locomotives | |||||||||
| Be 4/4 | (301) 1 | ACMV / SAAS | 1952 | 1 | hist. 1 | historical vehicle | |||
| Railcar | |||||||||
| BCFe 2/4 ABDe 2/4 |
(311) 101 | SWS / BBC | 1944 | 2 | hist. 1 | 2006 | canceled | ||
| (312) 102 | 1945 | historical vehicle | |||||||
| ABDe 4/4 | 103 |
SIG / SWS SAAS / BBC / MFO |
1965 | 1 | 0 | 1983 | EAV railcars; on Mon sold | ||
| ABDe 537 | 313 | SIG / SAAS | 1946 | BN (1994) | (Ex) 1 | 0 | 2005 | «Blue arrow»; ex BN 743; submitted | |
| RABDe 4/4 | 104 | SIG / SWS / BBC | 1983 | 2 | 0 | 1991 | KTU-NPZ ; at GFM sold | ||
| (315) 105 | 2013 | KTU-NPZ; to Travys sold | |||||||
| RBDe 4/4 | (316) 106 | 1985 | 2 | 1 | KTU-NPZ; leased to TPF (2004–2013) | ||||
| (317) 107 | 1991 | 2018 | KTU-NPZ; at DSF sold | ||||||
| RABe 527 | 321-322 | BT / Alstom | 2002-2003 | 1 | 0 | 2008-2009 | Nina; at BLS sold | ||
| RABe 527 | 331 | STAG | 2007 | 3 | 3 | flirt | |||
| 332-333 | 2009 | ||||||||
| Control car | |||||||||
| Bt | 201 | SWP | 1964 | 3 | 0 | 1985 | EAV ( EW I ); on Mon sold | ||
| 202 | 1964/1983 | 2013 | EAV ( EW I ); to Travys sold | ||||||
| 203 | 1992 | EAV ( EW I ); at GFM sold | |||||||
| ABt | 204 | 1985 | 3 | 1 | KTU-NPZ; leased to TPF (2004–2013) | ||||
| 205 | 1991 | 2018 | KTU-NPZ; at DSF sold | ||||||
| 206 | 2006 | KTU-NPZ; at TPF sold | |||||||
| Passenger cars | |||||||||
| B. | 301 | FFA | 1965 | 2 | 1 | 2013 | EW I ; to Travys sold | ||
| 302 | 1965/2005 | EW I ; Conversion to B Jumbo | |||||||
| B. | 304 | SWP / SIG | 1985 | 4th | 1 | 2008 | «B Lego»; sold / rented to Travys ? | ||
| 305-306 | 1992 | 2018 | «B Lego»; at DSF sold | ||||||
| 307 | "B Lego" | ||||||||
| Shunting locomotives and tractors | |||||||||
| Te 4/4 | 11 | SWS / BBC | 1910/1949 | MO (1966) | (Ex) 1 | 0 | 1978 | ex MO BCFe 4/4 1; at CJ issued | |
| Ub = takeover from outside stock (used vehicle); Um = conversion from our own stock | |||||||||
- Remarks
- The set RBDe 567 316 + ABt 204 was leased to TPF on a long-term basis from 2004 to 2013, was modernized by the latter and was painted in TPF.
- Be 4/4 1
- Freight locomotive with a central driver's cab. Designation (UIC): Be 417 301.
- BCFe 2/4
- Designation from 1962 ABDe 2/4 101-102. Designation (UIC): ABDe 537 301-302.
- BCFe 4/8 "Blue Arrow"
- Designation from 1962 ABDe 4/8. Designation (UIC): ABDe 537 313. After scrapping in 2005, handed over to companies in St. Sulpice; parked not rollable.
- RABDe 4/4 «Privatbahn-NPZ»
- 104 and 105 with two driver's cabs and front wall doors. Designation (UIC): RABDe 537 315; after downgrading RBDe 567 315.
- RBDe 4/4 "Privatbahn-NPZ"
- 106 and 107 with a driver's cab without a front wall door. Designation (UIC): RBDe 567 316-317.
- Bt 201-203
- Control car for EAV railcars and ABDe 2/4. Conversion (1983) of Bt 202 and Bt 203 to control cars for NPZ railcars. Conversion (1997) from Bt 202 to ABt 202.
- B 302
- Standard car I , conversion (2005) to B Jumbo .
Rolling stock decommissioned
Selection.
Diesel railcars
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BCm 2/5 8–9, 1924–1938 or 1965 in service, from 1956 as ABm 2/5 9, built in 1914 for the Saxon State Railway
- Number 9 exhibited in the Verkehrshaus Luzern.
Steam railcar
- BCm 2/2 10, 1917–1946 in service, built as BCFZm 2/2 21 for the Rorschach-Heiden-Bahn, not renumbered until 1922
- CFm 1/2 1, 1939–1946 in service, built in 1907 as No. 301 for the Kgl. Prussia. Military railway, sold by the DRG in 1921 and commissioned as Cm 1/2 after renovation at the Sensetalbahn in 1922, rebuilt in 1927
Electric traction vehicles
- Be 4/4 1
- used for freight trains also in front of passenger trains.
- Te 4/4, ex MO ABDe 4/4 1
- was given to CJ in 1978 , who used parts for the De 4/4 number 111
Steam locomotives
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E 2/2 1–2 (1883)
- Manufacturer: SLM , discarded in 1916 and 1908
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E 2/2 3–4 (1886 and 1892)
- Manufacturer: Maschinenfabrik Mulhouse, discarded in 1916
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E 3/3 5-6 (1913)
- Superheated steam locomotive from Krauss & Cie (Munich), retired in 1952 and 1946
- E 3/3 7, ex JS F3 853, ex SBB E 3/3 8573; In service 1911–1928
- sold to Von Roll Klus (number 10), from 1941 in Gerlafingen
- today at the Steam Railway Association in Bern
- E 3/3 8, ex JS F3 855, ex SBB E 3/3 8575; In service 1911–1928
- sold to Von Roll Klus (number 11), from 1941 in Gerlafingen
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Ed 3/4 9, ex BSB Ed 3/4 52; Taken over in 1926
- Discarded in 1946
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Moser: The steam operation of the Swiss railways 1847-1966. Birkhäuser Verlag Basel and Stuttgart 1967, page 388
- ^ Alfred Moser: The steam operation of the Swiss railways 1847-1966. Birkhäuser Verlag Basel and Stuttgart 1967, page 387
- ^ Wolfgang Messerschmidt: Locomotives of the machine works Esslingen 1841-1966. Steiger Verlag, Moers 1984, ISBN 3-921564-67-0 , page 276
- ^ Wolfgang Valtin: German Locomotive Archive, directory of all locomotives and railcars 2, steam locomotives and steam railcars. Transpress, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-344-70740-X , page 448