File:OutlineMapLoetschbergbahnSwitzerland.jpg

DescriptionOutlineMapLoetschbergbahnSwitzerland.jpg	English: Outline map of the Lötschbergbahn between Spiez and Brig in Switzerland, showing the part from Frutigen to Brig. Note the long loop followed with a 270 degree spiral tunnel between Kandergrund and Felsenburg (ca. km 60 and 70) and the curved stretch of the Lötschberg tunnel between km 75 and 90. The straight version of the tunnel had to be abandoned when breaking into watercarrying sediment layers while advancing the tunnel underneath the Kander. Deutsch: Übersichtskarte der Lötschberg-Bahn
Date	1912, book (or prior source predating the publication of volume 2 of Röll's encyclopedia in 1912)
Source	Röll, V. Freiherr von: Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens, Band 2. Berlin, Wien 1912, p. 257 digitized version on www.zeno.org/Roell-1912
Author	Dietler, Hermann (1839-10-01 - 1924-01-24); Röll, Victor Freiherr von (1852-05-22 - 1922-10-12)
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File:LongitudinalProfileLoetschbergbahnSwitzerland woCaptions.jpg shows the change in elevation along the Lötschbergbahn.

No legend and no scale other than the one indicated by the traveldistance from Bern in [km] was provided in the article.

The article with this map was publiched in 1912 after the breakthrough of the Lötschberg tunnel on 31 March 1911. With work still in progress at the time the author estimated the line to open on 1 May 1913. The official inauguration took place on 15 July 1913. Please note that in this map the station names on the southern ramp differ from the ones later established and also used in the profile graph given in the link above.

Station names shown in the map versus the realized station names: Goppenstein/Goppenstein, Giesch/Hohtenn, German/Ausserberg, Lalden/Lalden, Brieg/Brig

Locations itemized in the graph are (links to German Wikipedia article if no English one existed, current station names are used on the southern ramp):

Station Frutigen

Station Kandergrund

Station Blausee-Mittholz

Stop Felsenburg

Station Kandersteg

Lötschberg Tunnel passing underneath the

Kander (flowing through the valley Gasterntal)

Station Goppenstein

Station Hohtenn, listed as Giesch in the map

Station Ausserberg, listed as German in the map

Station Lalden

Station Brig, listed as Brieg in the map

The original German caption of the graph in the cited publication was "Abb.89. Übersichtskarte der Lötschberg-Bahn".

The author Dietler did not provide a copyright for the graphs used nor did he use specific citations within his article and listed sources as "literature" solely at the end of his chapter. It is not clear if he is the original author of any of the drawings or whether he copied them from one of the books or periodicals listed or from elsewhere. The most recent dated literature listed originates from 1904. Obviously all listed sources predate the publication of volume 2 of Röll's encyclopedia in 1912. Dietler lists the sources as follows below. Originals of the graph might be found there.

Literatur:

W. Teuscher, Eine Lötschbergbahn als Zufahrtslinie zum Simplon und direkte Verbindung Berns mit Wallis. Bern 1889. Büchler.

W. Teuscher, Die Lötschbergbahn. Neues verbessertes Projekt Thun-Brig. Kritische Vergleichung mit dem Gegenprojekt Thun-Simmental – Simplon (sog. Wildstrubelbahn). Bern 1898. Schmid & Franke.

E. Stockalper, Thoune-Simmental-Simplon. Sion. Imprimerie F. Agmon. 1897.

E. Stockalper, Wildstrubel et Lötschberg. Etude de la traversee des alpes bernoises. Extrait du bulletin technique de la Suisse romande du 25 Juin et 10 Juillet 1903. Lausanne. Imprimerie H. Vallotton et Poso. 1903.

J. Hittmann u. K. Greulich, Technischer Bericht und Kostenvoranschlag der Lötschbergbahn. Bern. Buchdruckerei Ott & Bolliger. 1901.

B. Emch, Ing. Bern, Berner-Alpen-Durchstich. Das Basisprojekt Emch für eine Lötschbergbahn mit 15‰ Maximalsteigung, 1004 m Kulminationspunkt, einem 21 km langen Basistunnel und 122 km Betriebslänge. Bern. September 1904. Buchdruckerei R. Sutter.

Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Bd. 40, S. 55 u. 67; Bd. 42, S. 137; Bd. 43, S. 21; Bd. 44, S. 121; Bd. 48, S. 18; Bd. 52, S. 43 u. 200; Bd. 53, S. 13; Bd. 55, S. 333 u. 347 (Berner Alpenbahnen von Dr. Zollinger).

L. Thormann, Anlage und Fahrzeuge für elektrische Traktion auf der Versuchsstrecke Spiez-Frutigen.

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