AG Binger branch lines
The AG Binger Nebenbahnen was founded on August 9, 1904 by the district and city of Bingen , the municipality of Büdesheim and two banks in Wiesbaden . She wanted to open up the Rhine-Hessian city of Bingen and some neighboring towns by means of a standard-gauge electric train. Two lines were planned, one from Bingen train station to Büdesheim, and one from Bingen Trajekt to Bingerbrück train station. The Grand Duchy of Hesse granted the concession as a small electric train for 50 years from January 14, 1905. A Prussian concession was also necessary for the line to Bingerbrück , since 420 meters of this line (from the state border in the middle of the Nahe to the Bingerbrück station forecourt ) was in Prussia. This section was licensed as a tram .
Route network
The first route began at the state train station in Bingen (today Bingen Stadt ) and led from February 25, 1906 via the Fruchtmarkt through Schmittstrasse and Gaustrasse, then on the right bank of the Nahe up south to the municipality of Büdesheim, where the depot was also located. The continuation to Bingen-Dietersheim was opened on November 2, 1907, so that the route was now 4.9 kilometers long. The freight was taken on 1 May 1906 and bypassed the city center with its narrow streets on a 1.3-kilometer parallel distance from the fruit market by Gerbhausstraße and Nahekai to Drususbrücke ran along the river.
Another line, 725 meters long, which was supposed to connect the Trajekt stop in Bingen with the Bingerbrück train station on the left bank of the Nahe in Prussia (now Bingen Hauptbahnhof ) , branched off at the Fruchtmarkt since November 20, 1906. It drove directly parallel to the state railway. When it went into operation, the state railway stopped the ferry service between Bingerbrück and Rüdesheim. The tram carried state railroad travelers free of charge to the Binger trajectory. For this she paid the AG an annual compensation of 10,000 RM . When this amount was devalued by the inflation after World War I , the Reichsbahn refused to increase the payment. As a result, the line was shut down in June 1922. After an attempt to restart operation at the beginning of 1926 failed, the license for the Prussian part was withdrawn. Then the tracks were dismantled.
Between 1906 and 1955 there were two electric locomotives , eight electric railcars , three sidecars, two sidecars converted from railcars and two summer sidecars along with two freight cars . The operating length was 5.6 kilometers, the total track length 7.7 kilometers. With the closure of the line to Bingerbrück, these numbers were reduced by 725 meters.
business
With the licensing of the extension from Büdesheim to Dietersheim, a 50-year license was granted for the entire network from April 1, 1907. After 2/3 of this concession period had expired, on April 1, 1940, as agreed, the railway became the property of the city of Bingen. In the following year the corporation went out.
On January 1, 1955, the “Stadtwerke Bingen / Rh. - Binger Nebenbahn «designated own operation of the city 5 railcars and 4 trailer cars with a length of 6.3 km and a length of 5.0 km. The city continued passenger transport until October 22, 1955, when it replaced it with an urban bus line . Freight traffic was stopped on March 31, 1957 when the license expired .
From July 21, 1925 to July 31, 1925 and again from August 1, 1930 to August 31, 1936, the AG Binger branch lines operated a bus route from Bingen to Ober-Hilbersheim .
literature
- Karl-Heinz Lautensack: 100 years of Binger Verkehrsbetriebe. 1906–2006: From the electric to the local public transport network RNN. Lautensack publishing house, Weiler bei Bingen 2005, ISBN 3-938184-02-7 .
- D. Höltge: German trams and light rail vehicles. Volume 4: Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland. Verlag Zeunert, Gifhorn 1981, ISBN 3-921237-60-2 , pp. 23-35.
- M. Kochems, D. Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 12: Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-393-2 , pp. 20–33
Individual evidence
- ↑ Association of Public Transport Companies (ed.): Handbook of Public Transport Companies , edition 1955/56, p. 33, Erich Schmidt Verlag (1955)