Aalen municipal industrial railway
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The urban industrial line Aalen was a standard-gauge and non-electrified railway line in the southern urban area of Aalen , which was used exclusively for freight traffic to various sidings of industrial companies in the corner between the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt-Nördlingen and the Aalen-Ulm railway line . An alternative name from the early years was Aalen – Erlau industrial railway .
The train started at Aalen main station , where it began at the exit towards Ulm. It then ran about half a kilometer parallel to the Aalen – Ulm railway line, with which it crossed Walkstraße together, and then headed south across Ulmer Straße and Industriestraße to Erlau AG . Two industrial main tracks branched off from this main line at the former Stützel-Sachs pottery factory . The so-called main track I was about half a kilometer long and led to the former provisions office , while the so-called main track II was about one kilometer long, crossed Burgstallstrasse and ended at the Maier coal merchant on the other side of Julius-Bausch-Strasse.
history
The construction of the industrial railway, which was always run by the municipality itself , began on September 7, 1904 , in the course of the increasing industrialization of the city and after the extensive completion of the Aalen station renovation. The construction company Antonio Rossaro from Lauffen am Neckar carried out both the station conversion and the construction of the industrial railway . The industrial railway went into operation on May 24, 1905, and any interested company could join at its own expense. As early as October 1, 1915, it was serving twelve customers, at that time the total length of all sidings was 2,830 meters. Others were added later, for example for the Wehrmacht's food store , the so-called Provision Office, built between 1936 and 1939 , and in 1942 for the Am Burgstall ore mine , also called Faber-du-Faur-Stollen , which was reactivated at the time . At the time of its greatest expansion, the industrial railway comprised a total of 40 loading points to the left and right of the digester , which it served up to three times a day. Other important customers were:
- Aktiengesellschaft Union on Wilhelm-Merz-Strasse, formerly Schulstrasse
- Maschinenfabrik Seydelmann on Burgstallstrasse
- OWZ Ostalbwarmbehandlungszentrum on Ulmer Strasse, formerly Neue Heidenheimer Strasse
- Drop forge and hammer mill Schneider on Ulmer Strasse, formerly Neue Heidenheimer Strasse
- Egelhaaf silk twisting mill and tissue paper factory on Ulmer Strasse, formerly Neue Heidenheimer Strasse
- Karl Gartenmeier mineral oil products on Julius-Bausch-Strasse, formerly Mühlstrasse
After the Second World War , the number of connections fell; for example, the ore mine was no longer a customer as early as 1948. In 1964, the central warehouse of Triumph International AG on Burgstallstrasse was an important branch line. Nevertheless, the traffic on this main track II, which also included a small marshalling yard , fell sharply towards the end of the 20th century. In the years 1995 to 2000, only four transports took place on it, which is why it was largely shut down in March 2000 by dismantling the track crossing with main track I. The last customers on the main track II were Seydelmann and Triumph, who both signaled at the time that they no longer needed their connections. However, the first meters of main track II continued to serve as a siding for the drop forge. Soon after, the main track I was no longer necessary, before the penultimate freight customer, Erlau AG, gave up its connection. In the end, the industrial railway only consisted of the 860 meter long connection to the drop forge, which was finally closed in autumn 2016.
The respective state railway was always responsible for operating the connections ; the industrial railway never had its own locomotives . However, the provisions office temporarily had its own factory locomotive .
statistics
In its last years of operation, the industrial railway had the following transport services:
- 1992: 410 truckloads
- 1993: 211 truckloads
- 1994: 242 truckloads
- 1995: 320 truckloads
- 1996: 205 truckloads
- 1997: 233 truckloads
- 1998: 255 truckloads
- 1999: 41 truckloads
- 2000: 219 truckloads
- 2001: 255 truckloads
- 2002: 244 truckloads
- 2003: 248 truckloads
- 2004: 200 truckloads
- 2005: 153 truckloads
- 2006: 138 truckloads
- 2007: 150 truckloads
- 2008: 59 truckloads
- 2009: no information
- 2010: no information
- 2011: 123 truckloads
- 2012 and subsequent years: no information
Web links
- Description of the Aalen municipal industrial railway on bahn-express.de , accessed on February 12, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: Industriebahn Aalen – Erlau, pen drawing, hand-colored, (M 1: 1000, 236 × 79 cm) Contains: route and site plan
- ↑ Aalen Yearbook 1980, published by the Geschichts- und Altertumsverein Aalen e. V., edited by Karlheinz Bauer, page 222
- ↑ Is Aalen's industrial railway dead? “Boulevard Ulmer Straße”: Aalen's theater stimulates reflection. Article onwirtschaft-regional.de from November 2016, accessed on February 12, 2018
- ^ Annual reports of the city of Aalen, published by the main office