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S-Bahn Bern
The Bern S-Bahn (; ) is an S-Bahn commuter rail network focused on Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. The network is roughly coterminous with Bern's urban agglomeration. Its services connect with those of Lucerne S-Bahn, RER Fribourg, RER Vaud and Transports publics Neuchâtelois, transN. With approximately 9 million train kilometres per year, the Bern S-Bahn is the second-largest S-Bahn in Switzerland. It handles around 100,000 passengers daily (175,000 on weekdays), and thus carries the majority of the agglomeration's regional public transport traffic. Operations The Bern S-Bahn Bern is operated, under a joint commission from the Canton of Bern, its neighbouring cantons and the Federal Government, by the following railway companies: * BLS AG (BLS); * Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn (RBS). Upon the timetable change on 12 December 2004, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) withdrew from its previous involvement in the operation of the Bern S-Bahn, but also took over a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bern
Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has governmental institutions such as the Federal Assembly (Switzerland), Federal Assembly and Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Council. However, the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, Federal Supreme Court is in Lausanne, the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland, Federal Criminal Court is in Bellinzona and the Federal Administrative Court (Switzerland), Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Patent Court (Switzerland), Federal Patent Court are in St. Gallen, exemplifying the federal nature of the Confederation. With a population of about 146,000 (), Bern is the List of cities in Switzerland, fifth-most populous city in Switzerland, behind Zürich, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolling Stock
The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, Railroad car#Freight cars, freight and Passenger railroad car, passenger cars (or coaches), and Railroad car#Non-revenue cars, non-revenue cars. Passenger vehicles can be un-powered, or self-propelled, Railcar, single or Multiple unit, multiple units. In North America, Australia and other countries, the term consist ( ) is used to refer to the rolling stock comprising a train, a list containing specific information for each car of a train, or a group of locomotives. In the United States, the term ''rolling stock'' has been expanded from the older broadly defined "trains" to include wheeled vehicles used by businesses on roadways. The word ''stock'' in the term is used in a sense of inventory. Rolling stock is considered to be a liquid asset, or close to it, since the value of the vehicle can be readily estimated and then ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bern–Schwarzenburg Railway Line
The Bern–Schwarzenburg railway line is a railway line in Switzerland. It was built by the ''Bern-Schwarzenburg-Bahn'' (Bern-Schwarzenburg Railway, ''BSB''). It was opened on 1 June 1907 between and Schwarzenburg. A train derailed in Ausserholligen station on 28 June 1916 and a carriage and overturned; one passenger died and 20 were injured. The railway company merged on 1 January 1944 with the Gürbetalbahn (GTB) to form the Gürbetal-Bern-Schwarzenburg-Bahn (GBS), which continued the operation of the BSB line. The GBS was then part of an operating group led by the Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon railway (Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn, BLS). The four group companies merged in 1997 to form the BLS Lötschberg Railway, which in turn merged with the Regionalverkehr Mittelland (RM) in 2006 to form BLS AG BLS AG is a Swiss railway company created by the 2006 merger of BLS Lötschbergbahn and Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG. Its ownership is divided, with 55.8% of it ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lausanne–Bern Railway
The Lausanne–Bern railway is a mainline railway in Switzerland. The first part of the line was opened in 1860 and the original line was completed on 4 September 1862. The line was built by the Swiss Central Railway and the Lausanne–Fribourg–Bern Railway, which were taken over by the Swiss Federal Railways on its establishment in 1902. History The Canton of Fribourg delayed the construction of the line from Bern to Lausanne in a bid to have it run through the city of Fribourg rather than on flatter land further west; in 1857 the Swiss government, the canton of Vaud and the West Switzerland Company gave in, allowing construction to commence on the line. On 2 July 1860, the line opened from Bern to the northern end of the 352 metre-long Grandfey Viaduct being built over the Saane river in Balliswil, near Fribourg. The Bern–Thörishaus section was built by the ''Swiss Central Railway'' and the Thörishaus–Ballenwil section by the Lausanne–Fribourg–Bern Railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regionalverkehr Mittelland
Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG (RM) was a 1997 merger of * EBT - Emmental–Burgdorf–Thun-Bahn * VHB - Vereinigte Huttwil-Bahnen * SMB - Solothurn–Münster-Bahn which had been under common management since 1943. In 2006, the main owners of RM and BLS Lötschbergbahn, the canton of Bern and the Swiss Confederation merged the two companies, forming the new BLS AG BLS AG is a Swiss railway company created by the 2006 merger of BLS Lötschbergbahn and Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG. Its ownership is divided, with 55.8% of it owned by the canton of Berne, and 21.7% by the Swiss Confederation. It has two ma ....Werner Weber, Jürg Suter: ''Solothurn–Münster-Bahn. Die Linie Solothurn–Moutier der BLS AG.'' Band 322, Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2008, {{ISBN, 978-3-907579-28-2, Seite 65 References Defunct railway companies of Switzerland Railway companies established in 1997 Railway companies disestablished in 2006 Swiss companies disestablished in 2006 Swiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn
The Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn (BLS), known between 1997 and 2006 as the BLS Lötschbergbahn, was a Swiss railway company. In 2006 the company merged with Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG to form a new company called BLS AG. BLS owned the largest standard gauge network on the Swiss Railway system apart from the Swiss Federal Railways. The railway had not been built at the time that the Federal government took control of the five big Swiss standard gauge railway companies in 1902 and so it led a separate existence, being considered the largest of the Swiss "private" railways, although the majority of its capital was owned by the cantonal government of Canton of Bern, Bern, with the Confederation holding about one fifth. History Origins With the opening of the Gotthard railway line, Gotthard line in 1882 the canton of Bern became separated from the main north–south route. The administration, not being happy with the situation, made full use of its federal rights to build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail 2000
Rail 2000 (German: ''Bahn 2000''; French: ''Rail 2000'', Italian: ''Ferrovia 2000'') is a large-scale project of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) established in 1987 to improve the quality of the Swiss rail network for the New millennium. It includes measures to accelerate a number of existing connections and the modernisation of rolling stock. The federal government decision to support the project in 1986 was approved by a referendum in 1987. In 2004 the first phase was completed consisting of around 130 projects with a budget of around CHF 5.9 billion. History Background After years of heavy investment in roads in the postwar years, the share of rail in the total passenger market in Switzerland had been significantly reduced by the end of the 1960s. At this time SBB decided that changes were necessary to increase rail patronage. More trains were operated in order to increase frequencies; this led to a 75% increase in passengers between 1971 and 1983 on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biel/Bienne Railway Station
Biel/Bienne railway station (; ) serves the bilingual municipality of Biel/Bienne, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is a major railway junction on the Swiss railways network. It lies on one of the two busiest major railway lines between the northeastern ( St. Gallen/Zürich) and southwestern Switzerland (Geneva); the other goes via Bern. An InterCity between St. Gallen and Genève-Aéroport only takes 3:58h with one of its tilting train compositions (in 2024). The other major line is between Basel and Lausanne/Geneva; via Delémont it also connects the canton of Jura with the Swiss railway network. And third, it also connects the French-speaking part of canton of Bern (the Bernese Jura) and La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE) in the west with Bern in the east. All trains of these lines meet in Biel/Bienne at ''a quarter after'' and ''a quarter before o'clock'' in a half an hour frequency according to the Swiss-wide applied clock-face scheduling, so that seamless changes of just a few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thuner Tagblatt
''Berner Zeitung'' (literally: "Journal of Bern"), also branded as ''BZ'', is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published by Tamedia in Bern. History and profile ''Berner Zeitung'' was first issued on 3 January 1979. Four different papers led to the creation of the also called ''BZ'': The ''Intelligenzblatt'' (1834), which was renamed ''Berner Tagblatt'' in 1888; The ''Emmenthaler Nachrichten'' (1883), the weekly newspaper of Emmenthal (1844) and the ''Neue Berner Zeitung'' (1919). When the ''Emmenthaler Blatt'' and the ''Neue Berner Zeitung'' were merged in 1973, ''Berner Zeitung'' was created. This paper merged with the daily news (former ''Emmenthaler Nachrichten'') in 1977 creating the ''Berner Nachrichten'', which was first released on 3 January 1979. The first editor-in-chief was Peter Schindler who was in charge between 1979 and 1982. His successors were Urs P. Gasche (1982–1985), Ronald Roggen (1985–1986), Beat Hurni (1987–1996) and Andreas Z'Graggen (1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Bund
''Der Bund'' (English: ''The Union'') is a Switzerland, Swiss German-language daily newspaper published in Bern. Established in 1850 and associated with the cause of Classical liberalism, liberalism, it was among the leading quality newspapers in Switzerland for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. In economic distress since the 1980s, its circulation has dropped and it has changed ownership several times since then. It is now owned by the Tamedia publishing group. History 19th century The newspaper was founded by Franz Louis Jent, a bookseller from Solothurn and veteran of the ''Freischarenzüge'' the Liberal insurrections of 1844–45 that led to the 1847 Sonderbund War, a Swiss civil war. The newspaper's name, ''Der Bund'', translates as "The Union", but is also shorthand for the Switzerland as a federal state, Swiss Confederation, the democratic federal state established in 1848 by the Liberal victors of the civil war. The newspaper was first published on 1 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clock-face Scheduling
A clock-face schedule, also cyclic schedule, is a timetable system under which public transport services run at consistent intervals, as opposed to a timetable that is purely driven by demand and has irregular headways. The name derives from the fact that departures take place at the same time or times during the day. For example, services with a half-hourly frequency might leave at 5:15, 5:45, 6:15, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45 etc. The goal is to enhance the attractiveness and versatility of public transport. Clock-face schedules are easy for passengers to memorise because departure and arrival times occur at consistent intervals, repeating during the day. A regular repeating schedule over the whole day can also improve services during off-peak hours. Clock-face timetables can be attractive for transport operators because the repeating pattern can allow the more efficient use of personnel, infrastructure and vehicles, and also make resource-planning easier. Repeating timetables were first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BLS RABe 525
The BLS RABe 525, also known as ''NINA'' or ''Nina'', is a Swiss electric multiple unit built by Bombardier Transportation with electrical equipment by Alstom. The train is principally used by the BLS AG on Bern S-Bahn services, four units (525 038-041) belong to RegionAlps. An updated version exists as the BLS RABe 535, also known as ''Lötschberger'', also exists with a revised front end and an interior intended for longer distance services. Design The articulated trainset was designed to be built with from two to six sections and with two to six motorized axles. The 3 car units have a length of , they are wide and tall. It has 20 first class seats and 114 second class seats as well as 70 standing places. The 4 car units have a length of , they are wide and tall. It has 20 first class seats and 159 second class seats as well as 85 standing places. The design speed is . The RABe 525 and 535 are technically equal in terms of traction equipment. Operation The RABe 525 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
