The Lake Line at www.sbb.ch. Accessed on 13 Jan 2013. (german: Seelinie), as it is referred to by the
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* SBB (band), a Polish progressive rock band, or their self-titled albums:
** SBB (1974 album)
** SBB (1978 album, Amiga)
* Seán Bán Breathnach, also known as SBB, Irish TV personality
* ''Saas Bahu aur ...
in English, is the
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
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*Swiss Internati ...
railway line running from
Rorschach Rorschach may refer to:
* Hermann Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist
** Rorschach test, his psychological evaluation method involving inkblots
* Rorschach (character), a character from the comics ''Watchmen''
* Rorschach (comic book), a 2020 comic
* ...
via
Romanshorn
Romanshorn is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
History
Romanshorn was probably settled in the 7th century, and is first mentioned in 779 as ''Rumanishorn'' in a land grant from Waldrata to the Abb ...
,
Kreuzlingen
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,
Steckborn
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It is located on the south-western arm of Lake Constance known in German as the Untersee (Lake Con ...
and
Stein am Rhein
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The town's medieval centre retains the ancient street plan. The site of the city wall, and the city gates are prese ...
to
Schaffhausen
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and forms the Swiss section of the ring railway around
Lake Constance
Lake Constance (german: Bodensee, ) refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Lak ...
.
History
On 15 October 1869 the section of line from Romanshorn to Rorschach was opened. Not quite two years later, on 1 July 1871, it was followed by the Romanshorn–Konstanz line. During its early years the railway belonged to the
Swiss Northeastern Railway
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, the NOB, which was transferred in 1902 into the
SBB SBB may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* SBB (band), a Polish progressive rock band, or their self-titled albums:
** SBB (1974 album)
** SBB (1978 album, Amiga)
* Seán Bán Breathnach, also known as SBB, Irish TV personality
* ''Saas Bahu aur ...
.
In 1996, the line was taken over by '' Mittelthurgaubahn'' following a competition. They introduced half-hourly fixed-interval services and modernised both track and rolling stock. When ''Mittelthurgaubahn'' went bankrupt in 2003 the line went into the SBB subsidiary, Thurbo, which had been intended as a joint venture between the SBB and ''Mittelthurgaubahn''.