Main-Lahn Railway
The Main-Lahn-Bahn (also known as the Limburger Bahn or Taunus route ) is a double-track, electrified main line between Frankfurt am Main and Eschhofen near Limburg (Lahn) . The Main-Lahn-Bahn is not used by long-distance passenger trains.
history
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route
Since 1850, thought was given to a route between the Main and Lahn that would lead through the middle of the Taunus . However, the construction of the route only began due to the Prussian law of March 25, 1872. The license was granted to the Hessian Ludwig Railway (HLB). Construction began in Eschhofen , and each finished section was initially primarily used to transport materials in order to advance construction. The first section between Eschhofen and Niederselters was opened to traffic on February 1, 1875, and the line was opened on October 15, 1877. The branch line from Niedernhausen station to Wiesbaden main station , called " Ländchesbahn ", was opened on July 1, 1879. With the nationalization of the Hessian Ludwig Railway , which was mainly transformed into the new Mainz Railway Directorate, the line came to the Frankfurt Railway Directorate on April 1, 1897 .
From 1911 to 1913, the line was expanded to two tracks, electrified between Höchst and Niedernhausen in 1971, and between Niedernhausen and Limburg in 1986 .
On May 13, 1953, the steam locomotive 93 742 derailed between Oberbruch and Niederselters due to a "track fault". She fell down an embankment. The engine driver died.
Eppstein tunnel
The Eppstein tunnel had to be renovated at the beginning of the 21st century. The reconditioning of the existing tunnel while it was still in operation would only have been possible with years of significant disruption to rail traffic by abandoning the S-Bahn cycle. A new concrete shell inside the old tunnel would also have reduced its cross-section to such an extent that it could no longer have two tracks and therefore a new tunnel would have had to be built for the opposite direction anyway. Overall, the construction of a new tunnel was therefore cheaper. At Easter 2013, the tracks on both sides of the tunnel were swiveled from the old to the new tunnel over the course of four days and operations then started. 30 million euros were invested in the tunnel structure. Most of the old tunnel was filled in and turned into a bat domicile.
In connection with the new construction of the Eppsteiner Tunnel, the Eppstein train station was also rebuilt. The construction of the new tunnel required a new track layout in the station, including newly laid platforms . The open spaces were redesigned. An administrative office for the city ( citizens' office ) and a cultural café were set up in the old reception building , which was no longer used by the railway and which was restored in 2007 and listed as a historical monument . The goods hall , which is also listed , was demolished.
business
The operation with steam locomotives ended in 1972. In 1978 the S-Bahn - line S2 between Frankfurt (Main) Hbf and Niedernhausen began with the electric multiple units of the 420 series . Class 423 trains have been running here exclusively since 2014 . At the beginning of 2006, the Stadt-Express and Regional-Express trains with locomotives of the class 143 and, since 2008, double-decker coaches of the class 767.1 were converted.
On the section between Limburg (Lahn) and Niedernhausen there are also trains of the RB 21 line, which continue from Niedernhausen to Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof . From 2004 to December 2014 most of these trains were operated by vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft with LINT railcars .
The timetable change in December 2014 saw some changes in the timetable. The services of the RB 21 from vectus went to the Hessische Landesbahn . Since then, these trains have only continued to Limburg (Lahn) on Sundays. The city express trains ran every hour from Monday to Saturday to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf. The RE trains no longer run in the morning. In addition, however, the timetable was extended in the evening. The last regional train of the DB has been running two hours later, at 8:18 p.m. from Limburg and at 10:31 p.m. from Frankfurt. There is also another pair of trains at 10:18 p.m. from Limburg. This train does not leave Frankfurt until 12:28 a.m. The train was driven by the HLB with a LINT 41 .
Most trains on the RB 21 line have been driven with Desiro multiple units since December 2015 . These six railcars were previously in use on the Kahlgrundbahn . The extended trains to Limburg at rush hour run in double traction . In addition, a pair of trains (6:10 a.m. from Limburg, 3:36 p.m. from Wiesbaden) is driven with two Stadler GTWs , which are otherwise in use on the Dreiländerbahn (RB 29, RB 90).
With the timetable change in December 2016, line SE 20 was renamed RB 22.
| line | Starting station | course | Destination station | Tact | used vehicles |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peak hours | NVZ | SVZ | |||||
| RE 20 | Limburg | Niedernhausen , Frankfurt-Höchst | Frankfurt | 60 min | - | - | 143 with 3–5 DoStos |
| RB 21 | Limburg | Niedernhausen | Wiesbaden | 60 (30) min | - (60 min) | 120 (60) min | 642 / 646 / 648 |
| RB 22 | Limburg | Niedernhausen, Frankfurt-Höchst | Frankfurt | 30 min | 60 min | 120 min | 143 with 3 to 5 DoStos |
|
Wiesbaden | Frankfurt-Höchst, Frankfurt (low) | Rödermark-Ober Roden | 15 minutes | 30 min | 60 min | 430 |
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Niedernhausen | Frankfurt-Höchst, Frankfurt (low) | Dietzenbach | 15 minutes | 30 min | 60 min | 423 |
literature
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 501 ff . (Route 032).
- Heinz Hirt: 1877–2002 - 125 years of the Main-Lahn-Bahn Höchst-Limburg . Eppstein (Taunus) 2002, ISBN 3-00-010714-2 .
- Heinz Hirt (Ed.): 130 years of Eppstein station . From the temporary station building in 1877 to the modern city station in 2007. Eppstein 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022577-2 .
- Dieter Frey: From the steam locomotive to the ICE era . Over 130 years of railways in Idsteiner Land. 2008 (without ISBN).
- Friedrich Schiemenz: The railway history of the golden reason . 100 years of continuous operation on the Eschhofen - Frankfurt-Höchst route. Camberger Verlag, 1978, ISBN 3-87460-011-4 .
Web links
- Course and maximum speeds of the route on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1897, Announcement No. 48, p. 99.
- ↑ Peter Scheffler: The railway in the Mainz - Wiesbaden area . Eisenbahn-Kurier Verlag, Freiburg 1988. ISBN 3-88255-620-X , p. 129.
- ↑ The new tunnel is ready Frankfurter Rundschau from April 2, 2013
- ^ Taunus: Bats fed up with trains . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2013, p. 211.
- ↑ Railway tunnel comes later. (No longer available online.) In: Main-Taunus-Kurier. October 22, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 22, 2008 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
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