10-540: The Langenthal–Melchnau railway line is a metre-gauge line between Langenthal and St. Urban in Switzerland; it originally ran to Melchnau . It was built by the former Langenthal–Melchnau-Bahn ( lit. ' Langenthal–Melchnau Railway ' ; LMB). The line runs through the cantons of Bern and Lucerne and is now owned and operated by Aare Seeland mobil . The construction work began on 6 December 1915, not from Langenthal, but from Langenthal Gaswerk junctions on
20-763: Is used in Sofia . Another similar gauge is 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm ). Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano 23,489 km (14,595 mi) Mailani - Nanpara Railway (operating) 641 km (398 mi) Dakar–Niger Railway List of town tramway systems in Europe This is a list of cities and towns in Europe that have (or once had) town tramway (e.g. urban tramway) systems as part of their public transport system. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of
30-720: The Langenthal–Oensingen railway line of the Langenthal-Jura Railway ( German : Langenthal-Jura-Bahn , LJB). This had opened on 26 October 1912. This short section was used by trains of both the Langenthal–Melchnau Railway and the Langenthal-Jura Railway. All of the Langenthal–St. Urban–Melchnau railway was opened on 6 October 1917 and it was operated electrically from the beginning. Since
40-736: The Oberaargau-Jura Railway ( German : Oberaargau-Jura-Bahnen ; OJB). In 1990, the company was renamed Regionalverkehr Oberaargau ("Oberaargau Regional Transport"; RVO). This was in turn merged with the Biel–Täuffelen–Ins railway ( Biel-Täuffelen-Ins-Bahn ; BTI), the Solothurn-Niederbipp Railway ( Solothurn-Niederbipp-Bahn ; SNB) and the Oberaargauische Automobilkurse (OAK) to form Aare Seeland mobil ( ASm ) in 1999. Since then, Aare Seeland has been
50-494: The demolition. The main buyer in Melchnau was the municipality of Melchnau , which will use the acquired land for a future flood protection project. Metre-gauge Metre-gauge railways ( US : meter-gauge railways ) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of 1,000 mm ( 3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in ) or 1 metre . Metre gauge is used in around 95,000 kilometres (59,000 mi) of tracks around
60-447: The line and the rolling stock of the Langenthal–Melchnau Railway were built to the same standards as the Langenthal-Jura Railway, the rolling stock could be freely operated over both lines. Transporter wagons were used for freight transport from the beginning. These allowed the transport of goods without time-consuming reloading on to standard gauge wagons. The Langenthal-Jura Railway and Langenthal–Melchnau Railway merged in 1958 to form
70-491: The owner and operator of the line. Passenger services operate between Langenthal and St. Urban Ziegelei every half hour. Under the former Oberaargau-Jura Railway, passenger traffic between St. Urban, in the canton of Lucerne , and Melchnau, in the canton of Bern , was transferred to bus on 22 May 1982. A new bus route now ran from Roggwil to Melchnau via St. Urban and Untersteckholz and another new bus route ran from Langenthal to Melchnau directly via Obersteckholz , avoiding
80-515: The station building of Untersteckholz have been sold to private individuals. The only major freight customer on the St. Urban–Melchnau section before the line was finally closed in 2012 was the Melchnau branch of the Landi agricultural cooperative . The St. Urban–Melchnau section was dismantled from 2015 to 2016. The dismantling was financed by the sale of the land the line was built on and materials resulting from
90-409: The time-consuming detour via Roggwil and St. Urban. However, the bus route from Roggwil via St. Urban and Untersteckholz to Melchnau ran for only a short time. As a result, Untersteckholz lost its access to public transport. The short section from St. Urban to St. Urban Ziegelei was reopened for passenger traffic on 28 May 1989. The station building of Melchnau together with the coach house as well as
100-607: The world. It was used by several European colonial powers including France, Britain and Germany in their colonies. In Europe, large metre-gauge networks remain in use in Switzerland, Spain and many European towns with urban trams , but most metre-gauge local railways in France , Germany and Belgium closed down in the mid-20th century, although some still remain. With the revival of urban rail transport, metre-gauge light metros were built in some cities. The slightly-wider 1,009 mm ( 3 ft 3 + 23 ⁄ 32 in ) gauge
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