ملف:OutlineGotthardbahn Route SpiralTunnels Gotthardtunnel Branchlines.jpg

 وصف قصير

The original German caption of the graph in the cited publication reads "Abb.287." without any additional text. The German title in the lower left corner of the graph translates to: "Map of the Gotthard Line" No scale or legend was provided with the map.

Links to the Gotthardbahn station (links to German Wikipedia article if no English one existed, even for non-German speakers it might be worth to have at the German articles as well, because of the more extended illustrations and maps.) The ones marked on the map are displayed in bold characters:

Branchline Zug to Arth-Goldau: Zug , Walchwil, Arth-Goldau

Main Gotthard Line:
Luzern, Meggen, Küssnacht, Immensee, Arth-Goldau, Steinen, Schwyz, Brunnen, Sisikon, Flüelen, Altdorf, Erstfeld, Amsteg, Gurtnellen, Wassen, Göschenen, Gotthard Tunnel, Airolo, Ambri-Piotta, Ambri-Piotta, Rodi-Fiesso, Faido, Lavorgo, Giornico, Bodio, Biasca, Osogna, Claro, Castione, Bellinzona, Giubiasco, Rivera-Bironico, Taverne, Lugano, Melide, Maroggia, Capolago, Mendrisio, Balerna, Chiasso

Branchline Bellinzona to Locarno: Bellinzona, Giubiasco, Cadenazzo, Gordola, Locarno

Branchline Bellinzona to Darinella: Bellinzona, Giubiasco, Cadenazzo, Magadino, St. Nazzaro, Ronzo-Gera, Dirinella

A longitudinal profile of the Gotthardbahn including its branchlines providing station elevations and maximum slopes between stations was provided in the same article.

The map shows the Gotthard line in its full extent with the main line coming down from Luzern passing through the Gotthard tunnel and going via Locarno to the Italien boarder in Chiasso. The branch line starting at Zug joines the main line in Arth-Goldau. The two southern branchlines start of at Bellinzona and extend southwest halfway to the southern likeside of Lago Maggiore before the line bifurcates with one line going norhwest to Locarno and the other line continuing its way to the Italien border on the southern lakeside.

The Map illustrates the extended train network of the north being connected to an equally extended network in the south over the traffic hostile and network free barrier of the alps being only crossed by the Gotthard line.

The map demonstrates in some detail the heart of the Gotthardbahn installation: Going south on the northern ramp and having passed Erstfeld you turn right into a right turn spiral tunnel followed by a double loop to gain the necessary elevation to enter the 15km long Gotthard tunnel crossing the mountain pass underground. Going down on the southern ramp you encounter to two sets of double spiral tunnels. You enter the first left turn spiral tunnei into the left mountain side, leave over a bridge to the other side of the valley, where you enter the right mountainside going into a right turn spiral tunnel. Crossing the valley again further down you enter into a set of two left turn spiral tunnels into the left side of tthe mountain loosing the elevation again you gained on the northern side.

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 illustrations or whether he copied them from one of the books or periodicals listed or from elsewhere. Disregarding the listed business reports of the Gotthardbahn and its liquidation commission the most recent dated literature listed originates from 1895. Obviously all listed sources predate the publication of volume 5 of Röll's encyclopedia in 1914. Dietler lists the sources as follows below. Originals of the graph might be found there. With standard operation of the Gotthardbahn having started on 1 June 1882 the line was well established during the publication of of volume 5 of Röll's encyclopedia in 1915. The engineering drawings probably dates from somewhere between the final planning period and the time just before the last construction phase.

Literatur of the article:

– Die Gotthardbahn in kommerzieller Beziehung. Zürich 1864.

– Begründung von Distanztabellen, graph. Darstellung der Verkehrsgebiete. Basel 1864.

– Die Gotthardbahn in technischer Beziehung, enthaltend die technischen Gutachten von Beckh und Gerwig, Dezember 1864, und von Wetli, Januar 1865, sowie eine Rentabilitätsberechnung von Koller, Schmidlin u. Stoll, März 1865. Zürich.

– Koller, Schmidlin und Stoll, Die Gotthardbahn und ihre Konkurrenten. Zürich, August 1865.

– Koller, Schmidlin und Stoll, Die Gotthardbahn und der Luckmanier. Zürich, Oktober 1865.

– Les projets de chemins de fer par les alpes helvétiques. Zürich 1869.

– Conférences internationales pour la construction du chemin de fer par le St. Gotthard, tenues à Berne, Procès-Verbal des Séances, 15 Septembre – 13 Octobre 1869.

– Hellwag, Die Bahnachse und das Längenprofil der Gotthardbahn nebst approximativem Kostenvoranschlag und die Ursachen der Überschreitung des Voranschlags der tessinischen Bahnen, Zürich, 3. und 6. Februar 1876.

– Expertise concernant le chemin de fer du St. Gothard, Commission Plénèire et Sous-Commission, Procès-Verbal des Séances, 31 Juliett – 22 Novembre 1876. Bern.

– Conférences internationales pour la construction du chemin de fer par le St. Gothard tenues à Lucerne, Procès-Verbal des Séances, 4–13 Juin 1877.

– Erster bis achtunddreißigster Geschäftsbericht der Direktion und des Verwaltungsrates der Gotthardbahn über den Zeitraum vom 6. Dezember 1871 bis 30. April 1909; drei Geschäftsberichte der Liquidationskommission über den Zeitraum vom 1. Mai 1909 bis 30. Juni 1912.

– Rapports mensuels et trimestriels du Conseil federal suisse sur l'état des travaux de la ligne du St. Gothard.

– Wanner, Geschichte der Begründung des Gotthardbahnunternehmens. Luzern 1880.

– Dolezalek, Die Gotthardbahn. Hann. Ztschr. 1882.

– Wanner, Rückblick auf die Entstehung und den Bau der Gotthardbahn. Luzern 1882.

– Wanner, Geschichte des Baffes der Gotthardbahn. Luzern 1885.

– Stapff, Geologische Übersichtskarte der Gotthardbahnstrecke Erstfeld-Castione, 10 Blätter 1 : 25.000. Berlin 1885.

– Mémoire du Département Fédéral Suisse des chemins de fer sur la construction du chemin de fer du St. Gothard. Bern 1888.

– Rich. Bechtle, Die Gotthardbahn. Stuttgart 1895.

 ترخيص

هذه الصورة هي ضمن الملكية عامة بسبب إنتهاء فترة صلاحية حقوقها في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية و أي دولة أخرى ينص قانونها على مرور 70 سنة كحد أعلى على وفاة المنتج لإنتهاء صلاحية الحقوق.