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Turgi–Koblenz–Waldshut railway line

Turgi–Koblenz–Waldshut
Overview
Locale Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany
Technical
Line length 16.65 km (10.35 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
Electrification 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Maximum incline 1.2%
Route map
 Operating points and lines 
from Zürich
27.43 Turgi 341,7 m
to Brugg (–Aarau)
Limmat (78 m)
30.76 Siggenthal-Würenlingen 350,8 m
32.74 ZWILAG siding
33.65 KKW Beznau siding
37.36 DöttingenDöttingen-Klingnau until 2002 325.4 m
38.33 Klingnau
to Laufenburg–Stein-Säckingen (–Basel)
41.13 Koblenz 320.3 m
to Eglisau (–Winterthur)
Koblenz Tunnel (181m)
to Eglisau (–Winterthur)
42,70/1,37 Rhine Bridge (190 m)
to Schaffhausen
-0.39 Waldshut 340.2 m
Upper Rhine Railway to Basel Bad

The Turgi–Koblenz–Waldshut railway line was opened on 18 August 1859 by the Swiss Northeastern Railway (German: Schweizerische Nordostbahn, NOB). It runs from Turgi in Switzerland via Koblenz to Waldshut in Germany. The Turgi–Koblenz–Waldshut line was the first rail link between Germany and Switzerland. It provides a connection from the Baden–Brugg line in Turgi to the Upper Rhine Railway in Waldshut.

Two branch lines were later built to Koblenz station: on 1 August 1876 the Winterthur–Bülach–Koblenz railway line opened via Eglisau and Bülach to Winterthur, and on 1 August 1892 the line opened to Stein-Säckingen, connecting to Basel.

The story begins two years before the opening of the Swiss Northern Railway. In 1845 a delegation travelled from Zürich to Baden to promote a concession for a railway from Basel to Waldshut. This would allow a connection towards Zürich. The line would cross the Aar river in Döttingen. It was proposed that the line would form an access route to a railway through the Splügen Pass or the Lukmanier Pass. In Zurich, however, a railway through the Gotthard Pass was favoured. Yet in 1847 a project to build a Lukmanier railway was approved, under an agreement "for the purpose of establishing a Lukmanier Railway Company". A bridge at Koblenz was well placed for such a railway. But after 1861, the NOB also supported the Gotthard project, while the Splügen project was filed away.


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