Halle (Saale) Gbf

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The Halle (Saale) Gbf (" Halle (Saale) Güterbahnhof") station was the central marshalling yard in the Halle (Saale) railway junction and will be the central marshalling yard for Central Germany. It was designed as a two-sided flat station . A new marshalling yard under the name Zugbildungsanlage Halle-Nord was put into operation at the same location in 2018 .

location

The freight yard extends over a length of 3.6 kilometers in a north-south direction east of the facilities of the main station in the district of the DR in the east district.

It is connected to the VzG routes:

history

Halle Gbf on Dec. 17, 1969, directional tracks on Südberg
Halle Gbf on May 27, 1980 View from the north of the Berlin Bridge with the directional tracks of the Südberg
View of the freight yard from the skyscraper on the former Thälmannplatz , in the background the old Berlin bridge , July 1985

In July 1889 the freight yard, which was rebuilt in the area of ​​the Magdeburg-Leipzig shunting yard and the Berlin-Anhalter freight yard and which combined and replaced the systems built by the various railway administrations in Halle until 1872, was handed over to operation. From the turn of the century until the 1930s, the station was extensively modernized; numerous new signal boxes and the track layout, which has remained largely unchanged since then, were built. By 1954, 20 signal boxes ( Bw in Bahnbetriebswerk Halle G, Abzweig Am and Hg 1 to Hg 18 ) were built in the area of ​​the freight station alone. In 1910 the oldest interlocking Hg 6 (mechanical, Jüdel design) , which is still in operation today , was built and in 1954, Hg 12, the largest GS I DR switchboard interlocking to date, which replaced three mechanical interlockings.

The freight yard was made up of

  • the Southern System ( South mountain ), imports into the up coming to its closure in 1994 by the South trains and were dissolved. The south system had an approach group with 10 tracks, a direction group with 14 tracks, a subordinate group with 5 tracks ( small group ), the transformer group east with 2 tracks and various other shunting tracks. In the drainage system of the southern mountain, FEV bar track brakes were used as valley brakes and FEW three-force brakes as directional track brakes.
  • the north system ( north mountain ), which was entered from the north. In the north system there was a drive-in group with 8 tracks, a direction group with 21 tracks, the Umspanngruppe West (also called New World ) with 5 tracks and various other shunting tracks. Trains from the direction of Halle-Trotha-Könnern (route 6344) and formerly Halle-Thüringer Bahnhof (former route 6346) could not enter the drive-in group directly due to the location of the station, but had to enter the transformer group west and then as a shunting drive in the drive-in group reset to default. Exits in the direction of Halle-Trotha (and formerly Halle-Thüringer Bahnhof) took place either from the Umspanngruppe West or as counter-exits from four of the directional tracks. The following track brakes are available: FEV bar track brakes (valley brakes), screw-type track brakes (directional track brakes and occasional gradient compensation brakes) and rubber track brakes (gradient compensation brakes).
  • the inner station (groups 5 to 7 with loading tracks, head and side ramps and reloading hall)
  • the container transshipment point (group 8)
  • two connection groups ( north end and south end ) with various (mostly disused) sidings.
  • other additional facilities, such as a car repair shop, a railway depot with a 20 and a 24-hour roundhouse ( Sch I and Sch II ), a 6-person rectangular locomotive with an internal transfer platform for electric locomotives ( Sch V , today only a shelter for museum vehicles), the former Reichsbahn repair shop "Ernst Thälmann" Halle (Saale) (closed) and a thermal power station (closed).

The Halle (Saale) Gbf station was next to the Dresden-Friedrichstadt station one of the most important freight stations in the network of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In 1980 he had an average mountain performance of 2000 cars (north mountain) and 1600 cars (south mountain) per day. From here, as coal were produced from the mines of the district of chemical wholesale companies and products Leuna , Buna , Wolfen and Bitterfeld transported. Around 180 through freight trains continued to pass through the extensive area of ​​the freight yard every day .

As a result of the collapse of the GDR , the station lost its importance due to the sharp decline in freight traffic; most of the track system was recently no longer used. Of the original 20 interlockings, five were still in operation with greatly reduced systems until 2015, which meant that, in addition to serving the construction site, only the western bypass of the station area with the transformer group west could be used. Access to the DB Cargo plant was only possible via the open route from the direction of Peißen.

Train formation facility in Halle-Nord

New construction of the drainage mountain
New construction of the direction group east
The new train formation facility in Halle (Saale) ready for operation in July 2018, the most important marshalling yard in Central Germany

A modern marshalling yard for Central Germany was built at the site under the name of Zugbildungsanlage Halle-Nord . The cost of the project should amount to around 120 million euros (as of April 2012). At the freight station, up to 2,400 freight wagons are to be put together to form new trains every day . For this purpose, the interlocking system automatically compiles 120 cars per hour into trains using radio locomotives, track brakes and conveyor systems. The wagons are distributed from eight entry tracks to 36 direction tracks ; their useful length is 700 m each. The project comprises a track length of 40 km and 135 points . In addition to the direction tracks, 14 tracks were laid on a loading road and loading ramps . 1130 LED light points on 650 masts illuminate the track field.

The financing agreement for the new building was signed on December 16, 2011 between the railways and the federal government. The construction work began with a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony on September 26, 2012. In addition to the thorough renovation of the track system, a new drainage hill and two electronic signal boxes to control the system were built. The investment volume is given as 146 million euros. A partial commissioning of the 16 eastern direction tracks was originally planned for December 2015. The plant was officially inaugurated on June 29, 2018, and regular operations started on July 2. Initially, operation with 20 trains a day is planned, by December 2018 full capacity with 2,400 freight wagons should be achieved in 24 hours. 20 employees should work on the system in five shifts. Then the Halle logistics location will be one of ten rail freight centers in Germany. In this context, the Leipzig-Engelsdorf freight yard was closed and activities were relocated to Halle.

In February 2019, only about a third of the capacity was reached. In order to increase the workload, the number of employees is said to have increased from 100 to 150.

literature

  • "Operating history" commission of the Halle freight station (publisher): 100 years of Halle freight station , Halle (Saale) 1989
  • Peter Neumann: 150 years of railways in Halle (p.): 1840–1990, 100 years of Halle main station (p.): 1890–1990. Salzverlag Halle / Fly Head Verlag Halle, Halle (Saale) 1990, ISBN 3-910147-26-7 .
  • DB Projektbau GmbH (Hrsg.): Railway node Halle (Saale) - electronic signal box with track plan conversion (brochure) . May 2013 ( online, PDF [accessed June 30, 2013]).

Web links

Commons : Halle (Saale) Güterbahnhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Finow: The newest track diagram signal box of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. In: Deutsche Eisenbahntechnik. Issue 8 1954, p. 306.
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim cherry, Lutz opinion et al .: The German Reichsbahn from A to Z . 1st edition. Transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1984, p. 196 f .
  3. ↑ Rail summit in Saxony-Anhalt: State government and Deutsche Bahn push ahead with rail expansion. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn , April 4, 2012, archived from the original on April 2012 ; Retrieved April 6, 2012 .
  4. ^ Michael Falgowski: Large station in Halle. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . May 9, 2011, accessed December 7, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Fast freight cross with a past . In: DB World . No. 5 , 2017, p. 11 .
  6. ↑ a b c 2012 is the start of construction for the marshalling yard in Halle. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . December 16, 2011, accessed December 7, 2012 .
  7. ↑ a b Light test at the freight yard - over 1,000 LED spotlights turn night into day. In: mz-web.de . May 16, 2018, accessed May 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Deutsche Bahn starts modernizing the train formation facility in Halle (Saale). Deutsche Bahn AG, September 26, 2012, archived from the original on January 1, 2013 ; Retrieved September 27, 2012 .
  9. ^ Rolf Wedell: DB Schenker Rail Deutschland AG in Central Germany, development in single wagon traffic. (PDF (1.8 MB)) (No longer available online.) In: Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry . Deutsche Bahn , April 19, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 7, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.leipzig.ihk.de
  10. ↑ a b Festival for the inauguration of the marshalling yard on June 29th. In: dubisthalle.de . April 4, 2018, Retrieved May 18, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, planning and construction defects? Halle's new marshalling yard is reaching its limits , February 7, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 0.1 ″  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 24.4 ″  E