Zürich–Olten railway line

Zürich–Olten railway line
Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn locomotive in 1867
Legend
Water Unknown BSicon "tSTR"
Zürich S-Bahn
Water Unknown BSicon "tSBHF" Head station
0.0 Zürich
Water Exit tunnel Straight track
Water turning left Track turning left Junction from right
Enter transverse tunnel to right Unknown BSicon "WBRÜCKE1q" Junction to right
Zürich–Winterthur line
Water Straight track Track turning from left
Zürich S-Bahn
Water Unknown BSicon "ABZld" Unknown BSicon "ABZ3rf"
To Lucerne, Chur and Gotthard
Enter transverse tunnel to right Unknown BSicon "WBRÜCKE1q" Unknown BSicon "ABZrd"
Zürich–Winterthur line
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST"
4.1 Zürich Altstetten
Water Junction to left
To Zug via Affoltern
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST"
7.5 Schlieren
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST"
Glanzenberg
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST" Unknown BSicon "uKBFa"
11.1 Dietikon
Water Straight track Waterway turning to left
BD to Wohlen
Water Junction to left Track turning from right
Carriage sheds /
Water Straight track Small non-passenger station on track
Limmental goods yard
Unknown BSicon "WBRÜCKE1q" Unknown BSicon "KRZu" Junction to right
Connecting goods line to Furttal line
Water Junction from left Track turning right
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST"
16.1 Killwangen-Spreitenbach
Water turning from left Water turning right Junction to left Track turning from right
Water Track turning from left Unknown BSicon "KRZo" Junction to right
Rail overpass 312 m
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST" Track turning left Junction from right
Neuenhof
Water turning left Small bridge over water Water turning from right Enter tunnel
Junction from right Water Unknown BSicon "tSTR"
Furttal line
Unknown BSicon "SHST" Water Unknown BSicon "tSTR"
Wettingen
Track turning from left Junction to right Water Unknown BSicon "tSTR"
Heitersberg tunnel 4,929 m
Small arched bridge over water Small arched bridge over water Water turning right Unknown BSicon "tSTR"
Straight track Enter tunnel Unknown BSicon "tSTR"
Track turning left Unknown BSicon "tKRZ" Track turning from right Unknown BSicon "tSTR"
Kreuzliberg tunnel 988 m
Water Exit tunnel Straight track Unknown BSicon "tSTR"
Water Unknown BSicon "S+BHF" Unknown BSicon "eHST" Exit tunnel
Baden
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "eHST" Straight track
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "eHST" Unknown BSicon "SHST"
22.4 Mellingen-Heitersberg
Water Straight track Straight track Large bridge
Fislisbach bridge 168 m
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST" Straight track Straight track
Turgi
Unknown BSicon "WBRÜCKE1q" Junction to right Track turning left Junction from right
22.8 To Koblenz
Water Small bridge over water Transverse water Small bridge over water
Reuss River 193 m
Water Unknown BSicon "S+BHF" Straight track
Brugg
Track turning from left Unknown BSicon "ABZdf" Track turning from right Large bridge
OV Highway 5 66 m
Unknown BSicon "ABZ3rf" Unknown BSicon "KRZh" Junction from right Straight track
Bözberg line to Basel
Water Straight track Straight track Station on track
25.9 Mägenwil
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "SHST" Straight track
Lupfig
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "SHST" Straight track
Birr
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "vSTRrg" Track turning right
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST" Unknown BSicon "vÜST"
Schinznach Bad
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "vSBHF"
27.7 Othmarsingen
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "vSTRl-KRZo" Unknown BSicon "ABZ3rg"
30.0 Südbahn to Rotkreuz
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST" Straight track Straight track
Holderbank
Water Straight track Junction from left Track turning right
30.0 Gexi junction
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "vSTRrg" Transverse track
Seetalbahn to Luzern
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "vSBHF"
31.9 Lenzburg
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST" Unknown BSicon "vÜSTl"
Wildegg
Water Straight track Unknown BSicon "vSTRlf" Transverse track
32.4 To Zofingen
Water Junction from left Track turning right
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST" Waterway turning from left
35.6 Rupperswil
Water Unknown BSicon "S+BHF" Urban station on track
41.5 AarauSBB/WSB
Water Enter and exit tunnel Waterway turning to left
Aarau I / II (615/583 m)
Water Unknown BSicon "KMW"
43.4
50.8
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST"
48.1 Schönenwerd
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST"
45.7 Däniken
Water Unknown BSicon "SHST"
42.9 Dulliken
Unknown BSicon "WBRÜCKE1q" Unknown BSicon "ABZrd"
41.2 Hauenstein line to Basel
Water Unknown BSicon "S+BHF"
39.3 Olten
Unknown BSicon "WBRÜCKE1q" Junction to right
To Biel
Water Junction to left
To Lucerne
Water Straight track
To Bern

The Zürich–Olten line is a major railway line in Switzerland connecting the cities of Zürich and Olten. The original line generally followed the south bank of the Limmat River from Zürich to near its confluence with the Aar near Brugg and then it generally followed the south bank of the Aar to Olten. The central section between Killwangen-Spreitenbach and Rupperswil now follows a more southerly route through the Heitersberg Tunnel. The line is electrified at 15 kV 16.7 Hz and much of it has four tracks.

The section between Zürich and Baden was opened in 1847 and was the first line opened in Switzerland, apart from a line from Mulhouse, France to Basel. The line was extended from Baden to Olten in 1858; in 1975 the line was shortened by the opening of the Heitersberg Tunnel.

Contents

History

The section between Zürich and Baden was opened on 7 August 1847 by the Swiss Northern Railway (German: Schweizerische Nordbahn, SNB). It was the first line built in Switzerland, except for the line built from Mulhouse to Basel by the French company, Strasbourg–Basel Railway (French: Chemin de fer de Strasbourg à Bâle), opened to a temporary station outside Basel's walls on 15 June 1844 and to the permanent station on 11 December 1845. The construction of railways in Switzerland was delayed compared to most of its neighbours, partly as a result of its mountainous geography. In 1837, the Zürich Chamber of Commerce commissioned the engineer Alois Negrelli to investigate the route of such a line. In October of the same year the Zurich-Basel railway company was founded. The chosen route would lead from Zürich to Würenlos via Dietikon along the south bank of the Limmat, then cross the river to follow the north bank of the Limmat follow Wettingen, Ennetbaden and Obersiggenthal. In Untersiggenthal the line would turn to the north and have crossed the river Aar at Döttingen. It would have then followed the south bank of the Rhine to Basel. In April 1838 surveying of the route began, but angry residents obstructed their work. The Züriputsch of 1839 and a civil war-like Constitutional dispute in the canton of Aargau further delayed the start of construction. Although the Aargau parliament passed a law permitting compulsory purchase in November 1840, several shareholders lost their financial guarantees, and the company had to be dissolved in December 1841.[1]

In May 1845 a new committee was formed under the leadership of the Zurich industrialist Martin Escher. The planned line would now keep to the south bank of the Limmat, which it would only cross at Turgi. Finally, it was planned to cross the Rhine between Koblenz and Waldshut (then in the nation of Baden) to connect with the planned Baden Mainline between Basel and Konstanz. With an assurance that Alois Negrelli would be direct the engineering and that a branch line would be later built from Baden to Lenzburg and Aarau, the Aargau parliament approved the project in July 1845. The first stage of construction would be the section from Zurich to Baden. Negrelli relocated of the station in Baden to the north side of town, requiring the construction of the 80-meter-long Schlossberg tunnel. Gustav Albert Wegmann designed the Zürich railway station, while Ferdinand Stadler designed the Baden station. At the end of 1845 the Nordbahn company was founded with a share capital of 20 million francs, in the spring of 1846 construction work started. The route for the most part was easy, although there were small landslides between Neuenhof and Baden. The greatest challenge was the construction of the Schlossberg tunnel, where prisoners were initially used for this work, later unskilled workers were also used there. There were three fatalities in a blasting accident and an additional six workers died of typhoid. The tunnel was broken through on 14 April 1847.[1]

The line opened on 7 August 1847 with four trips in each direction. The 20 km journey took 45 minutes with the trains stopping at Altstetten, Schlieren and Dietikon. Soon after the opening of the line began to be called the "Spanisch-Brötli bahn" ("Spanish bun railway") because the Zürich gentry sent their servants by train to Baden to buy these pastries in order to impress their clients at Sunday morning teas.[1][2] The railway was not a commercial success. Its passenger numbers were reduced by the Sonderbund war and the Revolutions of 1848 in neighboring countries. The Nordbahn dropped one of the daily services and indefinitely delayed the construction of further stages. Construction of the branch line from Baden to Lenzburg and Aarau was abandoned.[1]

Extension to Brugg and Olten

Only after the enactment of the Federal Railways Act of 1852—made possible by the new constitution of 1848—and the merger of the company with Alfred Escher's Lake Constance and Rhine Falls Railway (German: Bodensee und Rheinfallbahnen) to form the Swiss Northeast Railway (German: Schweizerische Nordostbahn, NOB) in 1853 were construction plans resumed. The line was extended to Brugg and opened to Aarau on 15 May 1858, where it met the line from Olten built by the Schweizerische Centralbahn.[3] The line was incorporated in the Swiss Federal Railways on 1 January 1902. The whole line from Zürich to Olten was electrified on 25 January 1925.

Heitersberg Tunnel

On 23 June 1874 the Aargau Southern Railway (German: Aargauische Südbahn, AS) was opened from Rupperswil to Wohlen as part of the project to connect the Gotthard Railway to Olten and Basel, largely for freight trains. On 6 September 1877 the Swiss National Railway (German: Schweizerische Nationalbahn) opened a line from Wettingen to Zofingen as part of a plan to connect Singen, Germany and Lake Geneva in competition with the established railway companies. The line went bankrupt in 1878 and was taken over by the NOB. Part of this line between Mellingen and Gexi junction (near Hendschiken) together with the AS line between Gexi junction and Rupperswil was incorporated into the current main line between Zürich and Olten when a shorter and straighter line between Killwangen-Spreitenbach and Rupperswil was opened through the 4,929 metre-long Heitersberg Tunnel on 22 May 1975.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Mittler, Otto (1965) (in German). Geschichte der Stadt Baden, Band II: Von 1650 bis zur Gegenwart (History of the town of Baden, Volume II: from 1650 to the present). Aarau: Sauerländer. pp. 234–245). 
  2. ^ Allen, Geoffrey Freeman (1982). Railways: Past, Past Present and Future. London: Orbis. p. 78. ISBN 0-85613-322-1. 
  3. ^ Stutz, Werner (1983) (in German). Bahnhöfe der Schweiz bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg (Railway stations in Switzerland before the First World War). Orell Füssli. pp. 112–142. ISBN 3-280-01405-0. 

References

  • Railatlas Switzerland. Schweers+Wall. 2004. ISBN 3-89494-122-7. 

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