Alsenz train station
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 Alsenz train station at the 2014 steam spectacle
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| Location in the network |
Through station (1871–1903) Connecting station (1903–1935) Through station (since 1935) |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | SAZ |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | May 16, 1871 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Alsenz |
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| City / municipality | Alsenz |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 43 '38 " N , 7 ° 49' 1" E |
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The Alsenz Station is the station of the Rhineland-Palatinate local church Alsenz . It belongs to the station category 6 of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) and has three platform tracks . The station is located in the network area of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 861. Its address is Bahnhofstrasse 1 .
It lies on the Alsenz Valley Railway Hochspeyer - Bad Münster and was put into operation on May 16, 1871 with the opening of the section from Winnweiler to Bad Münster. In 1903 the station became the starting point for a narrow-gauge branch line to Obermoschel , which was shut down in 1935.
location
The station is located within the northeastern settlement area of the local community of Alsenz. The local Bahnhofstrasse runs west of it .
history
Around 1860 there were first efforts to connect the Alsenz valley by rail . Above all, this was intended to create a shorter route for the transit traffic in the north-south direction that had previously run via Mainz . After the Hochspeyer – Winnweiler section had already been released in November 1870, the gap to Bad Münster was closed six months later on May 16, 1871. The Alsenz community on the line also received a train station.
In order to connect the nearby town of Obermoschel to the railway network, a narrow-gauge railway was built starting in Alsenz and opened on October 1, 1903; Alsenz thus became the connecting station . In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . Since the line to Obermoschel was underused, it was shut down in 1935. In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen management, the station changed to the Mainz management on April 1, 1937.
After the Second World War, the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) incorporated the station into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , which allocated all the railway lines within the newly created federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate . As early as 1971, when the Mainz management was dissolved, it came under the responsibility of its Saarbrücken counterpart . In 2000 the station, like the entire West Palatinate, first became part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV), before it was merged with the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later .
At the 2014/2015 timetable change on December 14, 2014, the new regional express line RE 15 between Mainz and Kaiserslautern was put into operation as part of the 2015 Rhineland-Palatinate cycle , which also stops in Alsenz.
Furnishing
Standard track judgment
The station has two through tracks and a passing track for passenger traffic . The house platform and the central platform - formerly Schüttbahnsteige - were modernized in 2011. On the eastern side of the station, there is still a piece of the former loading track of the agricultural trade (formerly the North Palatinate consumer association ).
At the time of its greatest expansion (see the station plan from 1910) the station had a total of 11 tracks. One of them, track 9 according to the plan from 1910, could also be used to load narrow-gauge vehicles onto transporters with standard lanes thanks to the head ramp and the appropriate equipment. On the eastern side of the station there was also the private siding of the stone carving company Spuhler.
| track | Usable length | Platform height | Current usage |
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| 1 | 177 m | 55 cm | Regional train in the direction of Kaiserslautern |
| 2 | 120 m | 55 cm | Regional train in the direction of Bingen |
| 3 | 120 m | 55 cm | no regular service |
Two interlockings were available to control and monitor the track systems and signals . Signal box I was located approximately at the same level as the station building on the eastern side of the station. The signal box II was located at the northern end of the station and also served the barrier system located next to it. Both buildings no longer exist.
Narrow gauge
The double-track narrow-gauge station was located on the forecourt of the station building on the street side . Connected to this were several shunting tracks for freight traffic on the northwest side . Two of them were equipped with trolley pits and thus allowed the transition from standard gauge vehicles to narrow gauge. With the end of operations in 1935, these tracks were also dismantled.
Buildings
Reception building
The station building corresponds to the architectural style that was practiced within the Palatinate at all railway stations that were built in the 1860s and 1870s. It no longer has any significance for rail operations.
Individual evidence
- ↑ db-netz.de: Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 . (PDF; 720 kB) Archived from the original on December 22, 2014 ; accessed on March 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Query of course book route 672 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ Vrn.de: Regional rail network and honeycomb plan . (PDF; 1.9 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; accessed on March 14, 2014 .
- ^ Bahnhof.de: Alsenz . Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
- ^ Rhineland-Palatinate-Takt 2015 in Rheinhessen-Nahe, section New connections Mainz - Kaiserslautern
- ↑ daten.verwaltungsportal.de: platform information - Alsenz station . Retrieved March 14, 2014 .
- ^ Deutschebahn.com: Alsenz train station modernized . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 14, 2014 ; accessed on March 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Martin Wenz: Type stations of the Palatinate Railways on the Southern Wine Route . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 12 .
