Baselland Transport

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Baselland Transport

Industry| Public transport
Founded| 1974
Headquarters|

Oberwil

Switzerland

Owner| canton of Basel-Land
Website| www.blt.ch

Baselland Transport AG (BLT) is a Swiss public transport operator in the cantons of Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Solothurn and in France. The BLT was founded in 1974, and is owned by the Canton of Basel-Land, located to the south of the city. It transports some 48 million passengers per year, using a fleet of 64 buses and 100 trams over a network of 165 kilometres (103 mi) of bus routes and 65 kilometres (40 mi) of tram routes.[1]

The BLT jointly operates the Basel tram network with Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB), owned by the canton of Basel-Stadt. Whilst the BVB owns and operates the inner-city network, the BLT owns the infrastructure for five longer suburban routes and operates four of these itself, leaving the fifth to the BVB to operate. All the BLT routes operate over BVB infrastructure in the inner-city. Both are part of the integrated fare network Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz (TNW), which in itself is part of the three countries-integrated fare network triregio.[2][3][4] It also owns and operates the 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) Waldenburg railway, converted in 2022 to 1000mm.

The BLT's suburban routes include the 25.6 kilometres (15.9 mi) long international route 10, which connects Basel with Rodersdorf in the canton of Solothurn, passing through the French commune of Leymen en route.

## History

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BLT was formed in 1974, through the joining together of four tram and railway companies. These were:

* Birsigtalbahn (BTB)
* Birseckbahn (BEB)
* Trambahn Basel-Aesch (TBA)
* Basellandschaftliche Ueberlandbahn (BUeB)

## Information

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* Bus Network: 115.940 km
* Tram Network 65.162 km
* Railway network: 13.1 kilometres (8.1 mi)
* Rolling stock (2002): Approx 30 Buses, 100 trams
* Passenger figures (2002): 39,782,620
* Gauge: 1000mm (trams), 750mm (Waldenburg railway)
* Depots: Hüslimatt, Dreispitz

## Rail and tram lines

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Basel tram network (2009)

Baselland Transport owns five 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) railway lines over which it operates five tram services:[a][5]

Line | Length | Opened | Services

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Basel–Aesch | 8.2 kilometres (5.1 mi) | 1907 | 11, E11
Basel–Dornach | 6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi) | 1902 | 10
Basel–Pratteln | 6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi) | 1921 | 14
Basel–Rodersdorf | 16.2 kilometres (10.1 mi) | 1887 | 10, 17
Waldenburg | 13.1 kilometres (8.1 mi) | 1880 | 19

## Buslines

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BLT bus in Gelterkinden

* 37 Bottmingen \- Bruderholzspital - Jakobsberg - Ulmenweg - Aeschenplatz (Bottmingen- Jakobsberg was operated by BVB from 2001)
* 47 Bottmingen - Bruderholzspital - Jakobsberg - St. Jakob - Muttenz
* 59 Bottmingen - Oberwil
* 60 Biel-Benken \- Bottmingen - Muttenz Bahnhof - Schweizerhalle
* 61 Allschwil \- Binningen \- Oberwil - Hüslimatt
* 63 Dornach \- Münchenstein \- Muttenz
* 64 Bahnhof St. Johann - Bachgraben - Allschwil \- Oberwil - Therwil \- Reinach \- Dornach
* 65 Arlesheim Dorf - Dornach - Aesch \- Pfeffingen
* 66 Local Bus of Dornach
* 91 Waldenburg \- Reigoldswil \- Bretzwil
* 92 Hölstein \- Bennwil
* 93 Lampenberg Dorf - Ramlinsburg \- Talhaus
* 106 Sissach \- Nusshof \- Wintersingen
* 107 Böckten \- Sissach - Eptingen
* 108 Sissach - Buckten \- Känerkinden
* 109 Rümlingen \- Häfelfingen

## Rolling stock

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BLT current rolling stock in Basel center Newly delivered Stadler Tango Tram on a driver training run

Power cars

* Be 4/6 101–108 (1971–1972), ex BEB
* Be 4/6 109–115 (1975–1976)
* Be 4/6 ex BVB Be 4/6 (1972)

Numbers: 123, 133, 135, 136, 141, 143, 158 (ex 623, 633, 635, 636, 641, 643, 658)
* Be 4/6 201–266 (1978–1981), from 1999 only: 213, 224–230, 258, 260–266 (16 vehicles.)
* Be 4/8 201–212, 214–223, 231–257, 259 (rebuilt from above with low floor sections 1987–1999, 50 vehicles.)

Trailers

* B 1301–1303, ex VBZ B 799–801 (1973)
* B 1304–1305, ex BVB B 1404, 1408 (1948)
* B 1316–1322, ex BVB B 1416–1422 (1961)

## Notes

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1. ^ Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe operates line 14 on the Basel–Pratteln railway line.

## See also

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* Transport in Switzerland

## References

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1. ^ "Portrait". BLT. Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2009. pp. 110–111\. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. ^ "Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz" (in German). Trarifverbund Nordwestschweiz. Retrieved 2014-11-05.
4. ^ "triregio - grenzenlos mobil" (in German and French). triregio. Retrieved 2014-11-05.
5. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 2\. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

## External links

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* BLT homepage (in German)
* Trams of BLT and BVB[usurped]

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