17-516: The Lake Thun railway line is a railway line in the Swiss canton of Bern . It links the towns of Thun , Spiez and Interlaken , running principally along the southern shore of Lake Thun . The line was opened in 1893 by the Lake Thun Railway ( German : Thunerseebahn , TSB) company, but incorporates much of the earlier Bödeli Railway ( German : Bödelibahn ) dating back to 1872. The line
34-556: Is 27.9-kilometre (17.3 mi) long, and is currently owned and operated by the BLS AG railway company. Besides traffic to and from Interlaken, the section of line between Thun and Spiez also carries heavy traffic to and from the Lötschberg line . The history of the Lake Thun line is linked to that of the shipping services on Lake Thun and Lake Brienz , which date back to at least 1834, when
51-761: Is a single-track standard-gauge line in Switzerland that is currently operated by BLS AG . It was formerly owned by the Spiez-Erlenbach-Zweisimmen-Bahn (SEZ), also called the Simmentalbahn (Simme Valley Railway). The line runs from Spiez through the Simmental to Zweisimmen . It is marketed as part of the GoldenPass Line between Lucerne and Montreux , which also includes the metre-gauge Brünig Railway and Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line and part of
68-506: Is now Interlaken Ost station , to Bönigen , on Lake Brienz. The line was not connected to any other railway, and served to connect the shipping on the two lakes to each other, and to Interlaken. The route of the Bödeli Railway crosses the Aare twice, using bridges with little headroom beneath them, and it has been suggested that this was done deliberately in order to dissuade attempts to canalise
85-808: The Bern-Neuenburg-Bahn (BN) and the Berner Alpenbahn-Gesellschaft Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon (BLS) to form the BLS Lötschbergbahn , which itself merged with the Regionalverkehr Mittelland to form the BLS AG in 2006. In Zweisimmen there is a connection to the narrow-gauge Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line of the Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (MOB), which runs from Lake Geneva to Lenk im Simmental. Local services operate hourly over
102-523: The International Union of Railways in its official publications and thesaurus. Also Centering spring cylinder . Also Railway air brake . Also Main Reservoir and Reservoir . Also see Reverser handle . A metal casting incorporating a slot that allows the casting to fit over the rail near the wheel of a derailed car. The locomotive then pushes or pulls the car so that
119-741: The Swiss Federal Railways owned Bern to Thun main line , and two other lines owned by the BLS AG; the Gürbetal line from Bern via Belp and the Burgdorf–Thun railway from Burgdorf via Konolfingen . Near the intermediate Spiez station , the Lake Thun line has junctions with two further lines owned by the BLS AG; the Spiez–Erlenbach–Zweisimmen line from Zweisimmen and the Lötschberg line to Brig-Glis . The line terminates just to
136-562: The Bödeli Railway between Därligen and Interlaken Ost. The Bödeli Railway was fully incorporated into the Lake Thun Railway company in 1900. In 1901, the Spiez to Frutigen line was opened, which was to become the first stage of the Lötschberg line , carrying heavy traffic across the Alps, and transforming the stretch of the Lake Thun line between Thun and Spiez. In 1913, the Lake Thun Railway company
153-644: The derailed wheel runs up the rerailer and back on to the track. Also see Extended Wagon Top Boiler . Also see Waist sheet . Also see Expansion knee . Also see Valve gear. Also see Grate Also see Train air signal apparatus. Also see Control system. Also Adhesion railway . Also Adhesion railway . Also see Hub. Also Adhesion railway . Also see Whistle stem. Also Coupler Yoke , Bell Yoke , Guide Yoke , Valve Yoke . Spiez%E2%80%93Erlenbach%E2%80%93Zweisimmen railway line The Spiez–Zweisimmen railway
170-596: The east of Interlaken Ost station , where it connects with the metre gauge Brünig line , which operates to Lucerne and is owned by the Zentralbahn , and the Berner Oberland-Bahnen , which operates to Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen . The Lake Thun line is built to standard gauge and is electrified using the Swiss mainline standard of 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC supplied by overhead line . Between Thun and Spiez
187-452: The first steamship was introduced. The two lakes are linked by a 5.5 km (3.4 mi) stretch of the Aare through Interlaken, but the river is not navigable, dropping some 6 metres (19.7 ft) and passing over several weirs . In 1872, the first part of the Bödeli Railway was built, from Därligen , on Lake Thun, to what is now Interlaken West station . In 1874, it was extended, via what
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#1733084695613204-563: The line is double-tracked; from Spiez to Interlaken it is single track with passing loops. Besides traffic to and from Interlaken, the section of line between Thun and Spiez also carries heavy traffic to and from the Lötschberg line . Railway line Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of
221-532: The river and thus maintain the railway's role. From 1873, the Bödeli Railway also operated a train ferry on Lake Thun, providing a connection for freight to the Bern–Thun railway line at Thun. In 1890, the Lake Thun Railway company obtained a concession for a railway from Scherzligen in Thun, via Spiez, to an end-on connection with the existing Bödeli Railway at Därligen. This line started operation in 1893, and also leased
238-661: The standard-gauge Lake Thun Railway . The SEZ was formed on 1 January 1942 from the merger of the Spiez-Erlenbach-Bahn (SEB), which opened the line from Spiez to Erlenbach on 16 August 1897, and the Erlenbach-Zweisimmen-Bahn (EZB), which opened the line from Erlenbach to Zweisimmen on 31 October 1902. In June 1997, the SEZ merged with the Gürbetal-Bern-Schwarzenburg-Bahn (GBS),
255-735: The world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail infrastructure . An example is the term railroad , used (but not exclusively) in North America , and railway , generally used in English-speaking countries outside North America and by the International Union of Railways . In English-speaking countries outside the United Kingdom, a mixture of US and UK terms may exist. Various terms, both global and specific to individual countries, are listed here. The abbreviation "UIC" refers to terminology adopted by
272-451: Was removed, although the site of the lakeside terminus can still be identified. With the 2020 timetable change, BLS dropped service at the three intermediate stations between Spiez and Interlaken: Faulensee , Leissigen , and Därligen . Regular bus service replaced the hourly Regio service that had previously operated. The 27.9-kilometre (17.3 mi) long Lake Thun line commences at Thun station , where it makes an end on junction with
289-522: Was taken over by the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway, which became today's BLS AG . Bönigen remained the eastern terminus of the line until 1969, when passenger service was cut back to Interlaken Ost station. However the BLS had built its main workshops alongside the line at Bönigen's western edge, and these remain open, along with the track between Interlaken and the workshops. The rest of line
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