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For the train that runs in New Zealand,","datePublished":"2014-11-27","dateModified":"2014-11-27","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/author\/lordneo\/#Person","name":"lordneo","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/author\/lordneo\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/de\/BhfBasel_Transalpin_26_3_1970.jpg\/220px-BhfBasel_Transalpin_26_3_1970.jpg","url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/de\/BhfBasel_Transalpin_26_3_1970.jpg\/220px-BhfBasel_Transalpin_26_3_1970.jpg","height":"202","width":"220"},"url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/transalpin-wikipedia\/","wordCount":2949,"articleBody":"This article is about the train that runs in the European Alps. For the train that runs in New Zealand, see TranzAlpine.The Transalpin is a EuroCity express train linking Z\u00fcrich (Switzerland) with Graz (Austria) via Liechtenstein. Introduced in 2013, it is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (\u00d6BB) and the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS). From 1958 to 2010 a train of the same name linked Basel or Z\u00fcrich with Vienna (see history below).The name of the train alludes to the fact that it crosses the Alps.  Transalpin was also the Ancient Roman word meaning “behind the Alps”, and referring to the region of that name in northern Switzerland.The train takes 9 h 34 min from Z\u00fcrich to Graz (9 h 35 min in the other direction) and stops at Sargans, Buchs SG, Feldkirch, Bludenz, Langen am Arlberg, St. Anton am Arlberg, Landeck-Zams, Imst-Pitztal, \u00d6tztal, Innsbruck, Jenbach, W\u00f6rgl, Kirchberg in Tirol, Kitzb\u00fchel, St. Johann in Tirol, Saalfelden, Zell am See, Schwarzach-St. Veit, St. Johann im Pongau, Bischofshofen, Radstadt, Schladming, Stainach-Irdning, Liezen, Selzthal, St. Michael in Obersteiermark, and Leoben. In Buchs SG (border checkpoint) and Selzthal the train changes its direction of travel.Table of ContentsTrain formation[edit]History[edit]Route (historic)[edit]Train formation (historic)[edit]See also[edit]References[edit]Notes[edit]Bibliography[edit]External links[edit]Train formation[edit]In the timetable period 2014\/2015 the EC Transalpin is composed of one first class open panorama coach of the SBB CFF FFS, the other coaches are of the \u00d6BB, including a dining car and a combine baggage car with first class seats, allowing to transport bicycles. In second class, both compartment coaches and open coaches are offered.[1]Between Z\u00fcrich and Buchs, the train is usually pulled by a locomotive of SBB CFF FFS class Re 420. Between Buchs and Graz, a locomotive of \u00d6BB class 1016 or 1116 is used, with another locomotive of the same class added in front between Buchs and Innsbruck.History[edit]  The Transalpin was first introduced in 1958, it was operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (\u00d6BB) and the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS). For most of its life, it ran between Wien Westbf in Vienna, Austria, and Basel SBB in Switzerland.  In 1987, it was designated a EuroCity train.[2]  In 2008, it was cut back from Basel SBB to Z\u00fcrich HB, Switzerland.  It was discontinued in June 2010, and replaced by a Railjet service.[3]From 1 June 1958 until 13 June 2010, the Transalpin was a showpiece of the \u00d6BB and the SBB. Introduced the year after the Trans Europ Express (TEE) network was set up in 1957, it had both first- and second-class accommodation, and therefore did not meet the “first class only” requirements to be a TEE.Throughout its history, the Transalpin ran daily in both directions.  Until the 2000s, it was always one of the fastest railway connections, with the fewest intermediate stops, in its area of operation.The initial train numbers of the Transalpin were TS 11\/12, and its original route was Wien Westbf to Z\u00fcrich HB.  In 1959, the route was extended to Basel (SBB station). When it became a EuroCity train, in 1987, its train numbers became EC 62 westbound and EC 63 eastbound.[2]To save time and the need for the train to reverse direction during its journey, the Transalpin did not stop at Salzburg Hauptbahnhof initially, but ran via the curve from Elixhausen to Salzburg-Gnigl, and stopped at Salzburg Aigen.  Even today, this curve, which is now used mainly by goods trains, is known by the name Transalpin-Schleife (Transalpin curve).In 1969, the route was changed. From then onwards, the Transalpin ran from the Western Railway at Salzburg Hbf to W\u00f6rgl via the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB)\u2013owned Rosenheim\u2013Salzburg and Rosenheim\u2013Kufstein railways, instead of along the previous route via Bischofshofen and Zell am See (Gisela railway).[4][5]  As the Transalpin had no scheduled stops in Germany, it was operated there as a so-called Korridorzug or “privilege train”,[5] a train in which (in the period before the Schengen Agreement) the passport and customs checks that would otherwise be required were not applicable.[5] Until the construction of the “Rosenheim Curve\u00a0[de]” in 1982, the train had been reversed at Rosenheim.In 1975, a writer for Fodor’s travel guides described the Transalpin as “one of the best trains in Europe for mountain scenery”.[6]In 1980, a trip on the Transalpin from Z\u00fcrich to Vienna was featured in “Changing Trains”, the final episode in Series 1 of Great Railway Journeys of the World, a BBC TV travel documentary.  The “Changing Trains” trip, which formed part of a longer journey from Paris to Budapest, was also described in the book published to complement the TV series.  In the book, Eric Robson, the presenter and author of “Changing Trains”, commented that the Transalpin, as of 1980, was simply the best train that the \u00d6BB had to offer, “… the star of this single main line to the east.”[7]When the EuroCity network was launched on 31 May 1987, the Transalpin was among the previously existing international express trains to be redesignated as EuroCity trains.[2]In June 2010, the Transalpin was replaced by the “Railjet 162” and “Railjet 163”, which run to approximately the same timetable.[3][8] In the timetable period 2013\/2014, five pairs of Railjets connect Z\u00fcrich and Vienna.Route (historic)[edit]In 2009\/2010 the route of the Transalpin was as follows:The train reversed its direction at Buchs SG.  In the westbound EC 162, the first-class cars were marshalled at the front of the train from Buchs to Zurich, and in the eastbound \u00d6BB-EC 163, they were at the front of the train from Buchs to Vienna.  This arrangement meant that at the two termini, both of which were terminal stations, the first-class cars were always closer to the station concourse.At times when there were interruptions on the Arlberg line due to railway construction work, or as a consequence of natural disasters \u2013 such as avalanches and debris flows, or between August and December 2005 after storm damage \u2013 the Transalpin was substantially diverted between Salzburg and Bregenz via M\u00fcnchen Hbf, the Munich\u2013Buchloe and the Buchloe\u2013Lindau railways.Train formation (historic)[edit]Initially, the Transalpin was operated by a four-member fleet of four-car Class 4130\u00a0[de] electric multiple units, which had been procured specifically for the purpose.  The Class 4130 was a development of the Class 4030, but had a higher capacity and top speed, and its control car was equipped with a kitchen.In 1965, the \u00d6BB replaced the Transalpin’s Class 4130s with three six-car Class 4010\u00a0[de] multiple units, which, again, had been procured specifically for the purpose.  Interior of an SBB-CFF-FFS panorama car.In May 1977, the Class 4010s were replaced with a locomotive-hauled train formation (consist).[9]On the first day of the new arrangement, 21 May, the Transalpin consisted of an \u00d6BB Class 1042 electric locomotive, five \u00d6BB Schlieren coaches, one DB WR\u00fcmh restaurant car (ex-Rheingold) and six additional \u00d6BB Schlieren coaches.From the following day, 22 May 1977, the train, now operating as Ex 462\/463, was made up of 12 \u00d6BB Z1 (Eurofima) coaches, one WR\u00fcmh and three DB RIC coaches.On the ascending grades of the Arlberg railway, the eastbound locomotive-hauled train often received assistance from a pilot or banking locomotive.In the 1990s, an SBB-CFF-FFS first-class panorama car was added to the train. In some of the annual schedules, the train received an additional SBB Am or Apm first class coach and the restaurant was an internationally equipped SBB WRm of the EWIV family.See also[edit]References[edit]Notes[edit]^ Train composition EC 163 and EC 164 on vagonweb.cz^ a b c Thomas Cook Continental Timetable (May 31 – June 30, 1987 edition), pp. 472, 475. UK: Thomas Cook Publishing.^ a b Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable (May 2010 edition), pp. 89, 583. UK: Thomas Cook Publishing.^ Bufe (2009), p 44.^ a b c “Stop Press” (changes taking effect).  Cook’s Continental Timetable (June 1969 edition), p. 107; also pp. 322, 326\u2013327. Thomas Cook Publishing.^ Tennant, David D. (1975). “Planning Your Trip: Rail Travel in Europe”.  In Eugene Fodor; Robert C. Fisher (eds.). Fodor’s Europe 1975. Fodor’s Guides. New York: David McKay Company. p.\u00a097.^ Robson (1981), p. 180^ Mauerer (2009), p 628.^ Thomas Cook International Timetable (May 22\u2013June 30, 1977 edition), p. 515. UK: Thomas Cook Publishing.Bibliography[edit]Bufe, Siegfried (2009). “Salzburg \u2013 Bayern – Tirol” [Salzburg \u2013 Bavaria – Tyrol]. Eisenbahngeschichte (in German). 36: 44.Inderst, Markus; Gemeinb\u00f6ck, Franz (2009). Die \u00d6BB-Reihe 4010: Der elektrische Triebwagenzug “Transalpin II” [The \u00d6BB Class 4010: The Electric Multiple Unit “Transalpin II”]. KIRUBA classic 1\/2009 (in German). Mittelstetten, Germany: KIRUBA Verlag. ISBN\u00a09783981297706.Maurer, Josef. “\u00c4nderungen beim \u00d6BB-Verkehr \u00fcber die Rosenheimer Schleife” [Alterations in \u00d6BB traffic over the Rosenheim Curve]. Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (12\/2009): 628f.Robson, Eric (1981). “Changing Trains”.  In Laughton, Roger (ed.). Great Railway Journeys of the World. London: British Broadcasting Corporation. pp.\u00a0179\u2013182. ISBN\u00a00 563 17903 1.“Der “Transalpin” ist Geschichte” [The “Transalpin” is History]. Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German). 8-9\/2010: 413.External links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/transalpin-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Transalpin – Wikipedia"}}]}]