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 of bus routes and of tram routes.
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. It also owns and operates the Waldenburg railway, converted in 2022 to 1000mm.
The BLT's suburban routes include the long international route 10, which connects Basel with Rodersdorf in the canton of Solothurn, passing through the French commune of Leymen en route.
History 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 Bus Network: 115.940 km Tram Network 65.162 km Railway network: 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
Baselland Transport owns five railway lines over which it operates five tram services:
Line Length Opened Services Basel–Aesch 1907 , Basel–Dornach 1902 Basel–Pratteln 1921 Basel–Rodersdorf 1887 , Waldenburg 1880
Buslines
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
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
See also Transport in Switzerland
References
External links
BLT homepage