Basel tram line 1: Dreirosenbrücke - Badischer Bahnhof

City: Basel (Switzerland).
Total route length: 7.1 km (4.4 miles).
Driving time: 16 min.

Track gauge: 1000 mm (metre gauge).
Opened: May 6, 1885.

Stops

Dreirosenbrücke → Basel Badischer Bahnhof → Bahnhof SBB → Markthalle → Barfüsserplatz → Rheingasse → Messeplatz → Kunstmuseum → Bankverein.

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Photos and videos of Basel tram line 1: Dreirosenbrücke - Badischer Bahnhof

Basel tram line 1 with low-floor articulated tram 316 at Bahnhof SBB (2020)By Janus Boye.
August 25, 2020.

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Switzerland: Trams in Basel (2016)BLT (yellow) & BVB (Green) trams in Basel & surrounds.By Video Mitch - April 18, 2016 - April 19, 2016.

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BVB Basel Tram | Line 15: Bruderholz - Messeplatz (2015)Car type: Be 4/4 ''Swiss standard car'' Car number: 464By ZH3o3o - February 14, 2015.

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Most viewed - April 2023
Tram Basel SBB (2012)Video sequences were filmed not far from the Basel SBB station. Centralbahnplatz.

Basel tram line 1 with articulated tram 357 at Bahnhof SBB (2006)By Henrik Boye.
April 13, 2006.

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Longest tram line in Switzerland - tracking shot on the BLT line 10 (1993)The legendary camera ride of the STADTKANAL Basel on tram line 10 of the Baselland Transport AG BLT is now finally available in full length on YouTube. Climb in and enjoy the ride from the summer of 1993 through Basel and the region. Contact: http://www.telebasel.ch 25.5 kilometers long 40 stops 3 cantons 2 countries Rodersdorf Leymen (F) Flüh Bättwil Witterswil Ettingen Känelmatt Therwil Hüslimatt Oberwil Stallen Bottmingen Batteriestrasse Mühle Bottmingen Binningen Oberdorf Dorenbach Zoo Heuwaage Theater Bankverein Aeschenplatz Monument Grosspeterstrasse Münchensteinerstrasse Wolfgottesacker Dreispitz Neue Welt Birseckstrasse Dammstrasse Hofmatt Elektra Birseck Dorf Münchenstein Brown Boveri Baselstrasse Im Lee Arlesheim village Hirsland Stollenrain Dornach train stationBy Telebasel - May 1993 - August 1993.

Postcard: Basel tram line 1 with articulated tram 602 on Steinenberg (1992)Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB): Prototype motor car Be 4/6 602 (SIG/BBC 1962, rebuilt several times) + B 1503 (SWP/FFA 1972) at Steinenberg towards SSB station on line 1.By D. Madörin, Ernst B. Leutwiler Verlag, Henrik Boye - March 1, 1992.

Postcard: Basel tram line 1 with articulated tram 602 on Steinenring (1992)Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB): Prototype motor car Be 4/6 602 (SIG/BBC 1962, rebuilt several times) + B 1503 (SWP/FFA 1972) on Steinenring towards SBB station on line 1.By Ernst B. Leutwiler Verlag, Henrik Boye, M. Schoenmann - January 1, 1992.

Postcard: Basel tram line 1 with articulated tram 622 at Markthalle (1987)Basler Verkehrsbetriebe: Düwag motor vehicles of the first generation Be 4/6 622 + B 1486 on March 9, 1987 at the Markthalle stop.By D. Madörin, Ernst B. Leutwiler Verlag, Henrik Boye - March 9, 1987.

Basel tram line 1 with articulated tram 654 on Barfüsserplatz (1981)By Henrik Boye.
July 6, 1981.

Basel tram line 1 with sidecar 1335 on Barfüsserplatz (1981)By Henrik Boye.
July 6, 1981.

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Birsigtalbahn back in the day in blue/white (1975)Scenes from the Birsigtalbahn (Birsig Valley Railway) filmed in 1975 by the late Ben Wolff from Holland. He kindly shared the film with us for digitization. It features Basel with its trams, the BTB (Birsig Valley Railway), and ends with scenes from Amsterdam. I've added subtitles and a brief description... Among other things, it also covers the Pro Birsigthalbahn association. www.probirsigthalbahn.ch Greetings! Alfonso Durandi, Therwil (alduro@sunrise.ch or +41796445050). Does anyone have any films from this era? A film by Ben Wolff from the Netherlands. It must have been in 1974. We are in Basel. The BVB with its green trams. The Basel tram. What a beautiful summer car of the Basel tram. Central Station Square, Basel SBB. Those were different times. Today, we have to ride in closed, air-conditioned vehicles without being able to open a window. BVB trams are still running with old rolling stock on line 7. View towards Aeschenplatz. To the right is the almost-completed Hilton Hotel, which was demolished after just 41 years in June 2016. The Schlotterbeck building has also not stood there since 1993. Heuwaage Birsigtalbahn with commuter train rolling stock from 1966. Ticket machines were just being introduced. The Heuwaage was a large station for the BTB for a long time. This was the starting or departure point—terminal station of the 17 km long Basel-Rodersdorf line. The railway station building was demolished at the end of the 1980s and moved to Rheinfelden. This was the normal operating mode from 1968 onward. The old intermediate cars, numbers 51-56, were converted and remained in service until the transition to tram operation at the end of September 1984. The motorcars always stayed on the Basel side because there was a control car on the other side, departing toward Basel. As early as 1975, the first advertising panels were mounted on vehicles. The BTB was a true railway—windows could be opened, and passengers could stick their heads out. The BTB merged with three other suburban railways in 1974, which signaled the end of these vehicles, as the line was to connect with different lines. The last run with this rolling stock occurred at the end of September 1984. Many cars were then taken to the AOMC in Valais. In the meantime, they were also decommissioned and donated there. Two motor cars (8 and 9) went to Austria on the Attersee. They are no longer there either. Travel along Ebnetstrasse toward Therwil. The old railway station, which was demolished at the end of 1975. Just before Ettingen from Witterswil (Estrella curve). Oberwil. The Batteriestrasse station. The track crossing in Binningen, and that's how it was. We are the Pro BTB association, and we saved four of these vehicles. They are located in Rodersdorf. www.probirsigthalbahn.ch provides more information. Binningen. Back in Basel at the train station.By Alfonso Durandi - 1975.

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