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Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn
Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn RBS () is a Switzerland, Swiss public transport company. It operates train, tram, and bus lines between Bern, Solothurn and Worb. History There had been a desire for a direct connection between Solothurn and Bern since the middle of the nineteenth century, only partly satisfied by the opening of a standard gauge line between Solothurn and Burgdorf by the ''Emmental-Burgdorf-Thun Bahn, Emmentalbahn'' in 1876. A campaign for a line via Fraubrunnen finally resulted in a concession granted in 1912 for the ''Elektrische Solothurn-Bern-Bahn (ESB)'' to build a metre-gauge line between Solothurn and Zollikofen. Here it would connect with the ''Bern-Zollikofen-Bahn'', which had been opened in the same year. The full line was opened on 9 April 1916, but for the first eight years, passengers were obliged to change trains in Zollikofen. Public pressure led to the fusion of the two lines into the ''Solothurn-Zollikofen-Bahn (SZB)'' in 1922. The town of Worb ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
