page_title: Solothurn–Langnau railway
section_title: Plant opening with steam traction
hierarchical_section_title: Solothurn–Langnau railway / History / Plant opening with steam traction
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Tenderlocomotive B (ab 1887 E2, ab 1902 E 2/2) Nr. 12 Jlfis der Emmenthalbahn, gebaut 1881 inn der Schweizeriſchen Locomotiv- und Machines-Fabrique zů Winterthur (Fabr.-Nr. 211), 1907 außer Dienſt geſtellt und anſchließend abgebrochen.
context_page_description: The Solothurn–Langnau railway is a railway line in the Emmental in Switzerland. It was built by the Emmentalbahn, which was based in Burgdorf. The line runs from Solothurn via Burgdorf to Langnau im Emmental. It is now part of BLS AG.
context_section_description: The Emmental Railway developed out of the Derendingen–Biberist–Gerlafingen Industrial Horse Railway (Industriepferdebahn), which was opened on 1 April 1864. This connected with the Solothurn–Herzogenbuchsee railway (most of which is now incorporated in the Solothurn–Wanzwil railway) in Derendingen.
  The first section of the standard gauge railway was opened on 26 May 1875 between Burgdorf and Derendingen. The 15.62 kilometre-long line from Burgdorf to Biberist was built by the Emmental Railway and connected to the industrial railway from Biberist to Derendingen.
  On 4 December 1876, the Swiss Central Railway (Schweizerische Centralbahn, SCB) opened the so-called Gäubahn (Gäu Railway), including a section between Olten–Solothurn that is now considered part of the Jura Foot Railway and a 4.33 kilometre-long branch to Biberist, which ran into the station of the Emmental Railway in Solothurn. The branch line was transferred to the Emmental Railway on 21 November 1883. Operations were discontinued on the Biberist–Derendingen section on 30 June 1884.
  The EB opened the 18.23 kilometre-long section between Burgdorf and Obermatt junction on the Gümligen–Langnau line on the Bern–Lucerne railway on 12 May 1881. The last, almost three kilometre-long section between Obermatt and Langnau has been operated since its opening over non-EB tracks.
caption: Locomotive no. 12 Jlfis of the Emmentalbahn
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