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36-674: Plans for a new connection between Romandy and Central Switzerland were developed in the context of the construction of the Gotthard Railway ( Gotthardbahn , GB). The projected line, running from Langnau to Lucerne through the Entlebuch , would compete with the existing lines of the Central Railway ( Schweizerische Centralbahn , SCB). Resistance emerged to the route through the Entlebuch. Alfred Scheurer campaigned for

72-707: A decisive influence on the Jura-Simplon Railways. The Bern–Lucerne line of the Bern-Lucerne Railway is divided into the following sections: The following is a list of locomotives used by the BLB: Romandy Romandy ( French : Romandie or Suisse romande ; Arpitan : Romandia ) is the French-speaking historical and cultural region of Switzerland . In 2020, about 2 million people, or 22.8% of

108-566: A line via Sumiswald , Affoltern , Huttwil and Willisau , but was defeated in the Grand Council of Bern in 1871. The main shareholders of the Bern-Lucerne Railway were the Canton of Bern and the Canton of Lucerne as well as some municipalities. However, many Emmental municipalities and the City of Bern showed little enthusiasm for subscribing for shares because they had already lost

144-512: A loose synonym. "Romandy" is not an official territorial division of Switzerland any more than there is a clear linguistic boundary. For instance, substantial parts of the canton of Fribourg and the western canton of Bern are traditionally bilingual, most prominently in Seeland around the lakes of Morat , Neuchâtel and Bienne (Biel). French is the sole official language in four Swiss cantons : Geneva , Vaud , Neuchâtel , and Jura ; and

180-574: A significant amount of money in the failed Swiss East–West Railway ( Ostwestbahn , OWB). Nevertheless, at the end of 1872, the Bern-Lucerne Railway had accumulated over CHF 14 million in the form of stocks and bonds , while construction costs were estimated at CHF 13.7 million. The company acquired the Gümligen–Langnau section from the Bernese State Railway ( Bernische Staatsbahn , BSB) for CHF 6.6 million and rolling stock from

216-747: A sum that went down in Bernese history as the Vorschussmillion ("million advanced"). Railway operations were started on 1 August 1875 by an operating company called the Jura–Bern–Luzern that had been established by the BLB and the Chemins de fer du Jura bernois (Bernese Jura Railway). Soon, the Bern-Lucerne Railway could no longer pay the interest on its bonds and was declared bankrupt on 26/27 February 1876. The canton of Lucerne did not take part in

252-699: Is a partially double-track, electrified railway through the Entlebuch in Switzerland. The main section between Langnau and Gütsch near Lucerne was opened on 11 August 1875. In 1857, the Swiss East–West Railway ( Schweizerische Ostwestbahn ) planned a railway on the La Neuveville – Biel – Bern – Gümligen – Langnau – Lucerne – Zug – Zürich route with a branch from Zug to Rapperswil , part of which would have formed this line. Since construction had begun without finance having been secured,

288-661: Is a regional dialectal variant of roman (modern French romain , i.e. "Roman"); in Old French used as a term for the Gallo-Romance vernaculars. Use of the adjective romand (with its unetymological final -d ) in reference to the Franco-Provençal dialects can be traced to the 15th century; it is recorded, as rommant , in a document written in Fribourg in 1424 and becomes current in

324-720: Is known as Röstigraben (lit. " rösti ditch", adopted in Swiss French as barrière de rösti ). The term is humorous in origin and refers both to the geographic division and to perceived cultural differences between the Romandy and the German-speaking Swiss majority. The term can be traced to the WWI period , but it entered mainstream usage in the 1970s in the context of the Jurassic separatism virulent at

360-702: Is known as Welschland or Welschschweiz , and the French-speaking Swiss as Welsche , using the old Germanic term for non-Germanic speakers also used in English of Welsh (see * Walhaz ). The terms Welschland and Welschschweiz are also used in written Swiss Standard German but in more formal contexts they are sometimes exchanged for französischsprachige Schweiz ("French-speaking Switzerland") or französische Schweiz ("French Switzerland"). Simple Westschweiz "western Switzerland" may also be used as

396-580: Is operate as a portion , with the other portion running between Wolhusen and Langenthal. Furthermore, a RegioExpress service runs hourly between Lucerne and Bern, consisting of a Lötschberger class ( Ra535 ) set. Since December 2016, the Regioexpress service has been coupled in Wolhusen with the S7 service from Langenthal to make a second direct connection to Lucerne. Operations of all three lines has been

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432-570: Is supported by Radio Télévision Suisse and the universities of Geneva , Fribourg , Lausanne and Neuchâtel . Historically, most of the Romandy has been strongly Protestant, especially Calvinist ; Geneva was one of the earliest and most important Calvinist centres. However, Roman Catholicism continued to predominate in Jura , Valais , and Fribourg . In recent decades, due to significant immigration from France and Southern European countries, Catholics can now be found throughout

468-478: The Léman , Simplon and Mont-Terrible départements , respectively). Suisse romande is used in contrast to Suisse alémanique ("Alemannic Switzerland") the term for Alemannic German speaking Switzerland. Formed by analogy is Suisse italienne ("Italian Switzerland"), which is composed of Ticino and of a part of Grisons . In Swiss German , French-speaking Switzerland

504-613: The Jura bernois changed its name to the Jura–Bern–Luzern (Lucerne) on 1 July 1884. The operating results of this company were always in positive territory, even in difficult times, and allowed the canton of Bern to demand a respectable rent for the Bern-Lucerne line. The main source of income was freight, although passenger transport was also important. As part of the merger of the Jura-Bern-Lucerne Railway with

540-600: The Western Switzerland–Simplon Company ( Suisse-Occidentale–Simplon ), the Berne-Lucerne Railway, which still belonged to the canton of Bern, became part of the newly established Jura–Simplon Railways ( Jura-Simplon-Bahn , JS) on 1 January 1890. The canton of Bern received a sizeable share of the newly created company in return for the Bern-Lucerne Railway and its share in the Jura-Bern-Lucerne Railway. The people of Bern were able to secure

576-691: The 17th and 18th centuries in Vaud and Fribourg; it was adopted in Geneva in the 19th century, but its usage never spread outside of what is now French-speaking Switzerland. The term Suisse romande has become widely used since World War I; before World War I and during the 19th century, the term Suisse française "French Switzerland" was used, reflecting the cultural and political prestige of France (the canton of Vaud having been created by Napoleon out of former Bernese subject territories, while Geneva, Valais and Jura were even briefly joined to France, as

612-622: The BLB had become insolvent, forcing it to be taken over in 1877 by the canton of Bern as the main creditor of the BLB. The canton commissioned the Chemins de fer du Jura bernois (Bernese Jura Railways, JB) to manage the company. From 1882, the Bern–Lucerne line was then leased by the JB, which changed its name to the Jura–Bern–Luzern (Jura–Bern–Lucerne Railway, JBL) in 1884. In 1890, the JLB finally went to

648-467: The Gotthard Railway. The financial problems of the canton of Berne, including the "million advanced", had not been settled. It had incurred railway debts of more than CHF 40 million. The subsequent approval of the "million advanced" was vigorously rejected in a referendum on 26 August 1877. The government councilors accepted the consequences from this rebuff and resigned. In the elections for

684-666: The Great Council in the spring of 1878, the Liberals suffered a severe defeat as a result of their financial policies. The operation of the railway was still carried out by the Jura–Bern–Lucerne operating group under the direction of the Jura bernois , initially on behalf of the canton of Bern and from 1 July 1882 under lease. Because the Bern–Lucerne line became part of its Delle – Biel/Bienne –Bern–Lucerne through line,

720-912: The High Alps again, separating the Val d'Anniviers from the Mattertal . Historically, the linguistic boundary in the Swiss Plateau would have more or less followed the Aare during the early medieval period, separating Burgundy (where the Burgundians did not impose their Germanic language on the Gallo-Roman population) from Alemannia ; in the High Middle Ages , the boundary gradually shifted westward and now more or less corresponds to

756-580: The Swiss Jura participate in the Frainc-Comtou dialect spoken in the Franche-Comté region of France. Since the 1970s, there has been a limited amount of linguistic revivalism of Franco-Provençal dialects, which are often now called Arpitan (a 1980s neologism derived from the dialectal form of the word alpine ) and their area Arpitania . The cultural identity of the Romandy

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792-708: The Swiss population, lived in Romandy. The majority of the romand population lives in the western part of the country, especially the Arc Lémanique region along Lake Geneva , connecting Geneva , Vaud , and the Lower Valais . French is the sole official language in four Swiss cantons : Geneva , Vaud , Neuchâtel , and Jura . Additionally, French and German have co-official status in three cantons: Fribourg/Freiburg , Valais/Wallis , and Berne/Bern . The adjective romand (feminine romande )

828-550: The auction of the company's assets on 15 January 1877, so the canton of Berne bid against a consortium in which involved the Central Railway. The representatives of Bern were finally awarded the assets for CHF 8,475,000. The canton of Bern, as the main creditor , bought the railway for almost the same price that it had sold the Gümligen–Langnau section for. Around CHF 14.5 million was written off in bankruptcy, including

864-488: The co-official language – along with German – in the cantons of Valais , Bern , and Fribourg , French speakers forming the majority of the population in the regions of Lower Valais , Bernese Jura and Fribourg francophone ("French-speaking Fribourg "). Bernese Jura is an administrative division of the Canton of Bern, whereas the two others are informal denominations. The linguistic boundary between French and German

900-764: The communities of Morat and Fribourg . It divides the canton of Fribourg into a western French-speaking majority and an eastern German-speaking minority and then follows the eastern boundary of Vaud with the upper Saane/Sarine valley of the Bernese Oberland . Cutting across the High Alps at Les Diablerets , the boundary then separates the French-speaking Lower Valais from the Alemannic-speaking Upper Valais beyond Sierre . It then cuts southwards into

936-595: The company went bankrupt. The canton of Bern took over the Bernese shares of the line and allowed the work to be completed. The Gümligen – Langnau section was opened by the Bern State Railway ( Bernische Staatsbahn ) on 1 June 1864. The Bern-Lucerne Railway ( Bern-Luzern-Bahn, BLB) took over the section in 1875 and opened the remaining section between Gütsch near Lucerne and Langnau on 11 August. Thus, continuous operations between Bern and Lucerne were possible. But because of excessive construction costs,

972-432: The high medieval period (see Walser ). Traditionally speaking the Franco-Provençal or Patois dialects of Upper Burgundy , the romand population now speak a variety of Standard French . Today, the differences between Swiss French and Parisian French are minor and mostly lexical, although remnants of dialectal lexicon or phonology may remain more pronounced in rural speakers. In particular, some parts of

1008-576: The line was electrified on 15 August 1934. New double-track sections went into operation between Worb and Tägertschi, Konolfingen and Zäziwil and Bowil and Emmenmatt at the timetable change on 12 December 2004, enabling an hourly Bern–Lucerne service on this line. Services on line S2 of the Bern S-Bahn between Bern and Langnau run half-hourly and services on line s6 of the Lucerne S-Bahn between Lucerne and Langnau run hourly. The latter

1044-589: The newly founded Jura–Simplon Railway ( Jura-Simplon-Bahn , JS), which also acquired the Bern–Lucerne line from the canton of Bern. With the nationalisation of the JS in 1902, the Bern–Lucerne line became part of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). After the Bern–Gümligen, Obermatt–Langnau and Gütsch–Lucerne sections had been electrified as parts of other lines as early as 1919 and 1924, the majority of

1080-544: The other hand, the Canton of Bern, which attached great importance to the direct connection of the Bern-Lucerne line to the Gotthard Railway, resisted. The Central Railway and the Northeastern Railway ( Schweizerische Nordostbahn , NOB) undertook to grant the Bern-Lucerne Railway favourable conditions for its connection at Lucerne and an unobstructed connection via the Lucerne–Rotkreuz –Immensee route to

1116-638: The region. The Tour de Romandie is an annual cycling event on the UCI World Tour , often considered to be an important race in preparation for the Tour de France . The Library Network of Western Switzerland is in the region of Romandy. It is a collection of Libraries of Western Switzerland that are based in the region of Romandy. 46°12′00″N 6°09′00″E  /  46.2000°N 6.1500°E  / 46.2000; 6.1500 Bern%E2%80%93Lucerne railway The Bern–Lucerne railway

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1152-508: The responsibility of BLS AG since the timetable change in 2010; previously the S6 was operated jointly by BLS and SBB. Until the timetable change in 2004, two-hourly SBB InterRegio services ran from Lucerne to Bern and onto Geneva Airport , stopping in Wolhusen, Langnau and Konolfingen and, at the edges of the day, also in Schüpfheim. Since 2004, these trains have been routed via Zofingen and

1188-474: The same source for CHF 703,500. It hoped to improve the profitability of the branch line to Langnau by extending it to Lucerne. The construction costs of the Langnau–Lucerne line , built between 1873 and 1875, amounted to CHF 17,045,166. The company asked the canton of Bern to advance funds for the completion of the construction on 23 July 1875. The governing council exceeded its financial powers and handed over

1224-493: The time. The linguistic boundary cuts across Switzerland north-to-south, forming the eastern boundary of the canton of Jura and then encompassing the Bernese Jura , where the boundary frays to include a number of bilingual communities, the largest of which is Biel/Bienne . It then follows the border between Neuchâtel and Bern and turns south towards Morat , again traversing an areal of traditional bilinguism including

1260-481: The total share capital of CHF 10.6 million. Suppliers of goods and services received 70 percent of the face value of their claims. The Bern-Lucerne Railway was not alone in having to fight against rising prices. Due to massive cost overruns in the construction of the Gotthard Railway in 1877, it was decided to abandon temporally the construction of some of its access lines—including the Lucerne–Immensee section . On

1296-531: The western boundary of the Zähringer possessions, which fell under Bernese rule in the late medieval period, and does not follow any obvious topographical features. The Valais has a separate linguistic history; here, the entire valley, as far as it was settled, would have been Gallo-Roman speaking until its upper parts were settled by Highest Alemannic speakers entering from the Bernese Oberland in

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