Ansbach train station

Ansbach
Station forecourt and reception building
Data
Location in the network	Crossing station
Design	Through station
Platform tracks	7th
abbreviation	NAN
IBNR	8000009
Price range	3
opening	July 1, 1859
Website URL	Station profile of the BEG
Profile on Bahnhof.de	Ansbach
location
City / municipality	Ansbach
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 17 '54 "  N , 10 ° 34' 40"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '54 "  N , 10 ° 34' 40"  E
Height ( SO )	408  m
Railway lines
Treuchtlingen – Würzburg (KBS 920) Nuremberg – Crailsheim (KBS 786, 890.4)
Railway stations in Bavaria

The Ansbach station is the central transportation hub of the city of Ansbach . The two main routes Nuremberg – Crailsheim and Treuchtlingen – Würzburg intersect here .

history

Ansbach was connected to the railroad with a leased railway that connected Ansbach with Gunzenhausen , located on the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn over a length of 28 kilometers, and was opened on July 1, 1859. In 1869 the route was then passable from Würzburg to Treuchtlingen. In 1875 the line from Nuremberg was added, which was extended over the state border to Crailsheim in 1876 . In 1903 the Leutershausen-Wiedersbach-Bechhofen railway was opened, the trains of which, known locally as the Bechhöfer Boggala, were mostly tied through to Ansbach. However, it was shut down on November 28, 1966.

With the construction of the Ansbach station, a depot for the maintenance of locomotives and cars was also built. It was closed in the 1970s and the engine shed was sold to a scrap company. It deteriorated noticeably and burned to the ground on May 31, 2012.

In 1987 the transport association for the greater Nuremberg area (VGN) came into force. The Nuremberg - Ansbach line was integrated as the R7 from the start . After the VGN expansion on July 1, 1997, the R7 was extended to Dombühl and the route from Uffenheim to Treuchtlingen was added to the network as the R8 .

During the 2010 summer vacation, DB Netz closed the northeastern head platform at Ansbach station between tracks 1 and 1a completely and converted it. He got a new platform 140 meters long and 76 cm high for the S-Bahn. With the timetable change in December 2010, the Nuremberg S-Bahn network was significantly expanded.

On December 10, 2017, the VGN extended the S4 by 23 kilometers to Dombühl . However, only every fourth S-Bahn continues every two hours from Ansbach during the day.

traffic

Rail transport

Ansbach station has seven platform tracks, two of which are butt tracks. As a rule, the S-Bahn to Nuremberg use the 76 cm high head platform between tracks 1 west and 25 (until 2010 track 1a). The two 400 meter long island platforms between tracks 2 and 3 and tracks 4 and 5 have not yet been modernized and are only 30 cm high. There are hourly connections on the same platform opposite: East at minute 10 between Regional Express or Intercity to Stuttgart on platform 2 and RB to Würzburg on platform 3. And to the west at minute 50 between RB to Treuchtlingen on platform 4 and regional Express and Intercity trains to Nuremberg on track 5. Occasional trains from the west turn on track 1 east or 27 (until 2010 track 1b).

The following trains operate at Ansbach station:

Line / type of train	VGN line	route		Clock frequency
IC 61		Nuremberg  - Ansbach  - Aalen  - Stuttgart  - Karlsruhe		Every two hours
IC 26		Hamburg-Altona  - Hamburg  - Hanover  - Göttingen  - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe  - Würzburg  - Ansbach  - Augsburg  -	Munich	a pair of trains
			Munich East - Berchtesgaden	a pair of trains
			Oberstdorf
RE	R7	Nuremberg - Ansbach  - Crailsheim  - Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental - Backnang  - Stuttgart		Every two hours
RB	R8	Treuchtlingen  - Gunzenhausen  - Ansbach  - Würzburg (- Karlstadt -  Gemünden )		Hourly
S.	S 4	Nuremberg - Roßtal - Ansbach  (- Dombühl)		20- / 40-minute intervals (two-hour intervals to Dombühl)

Bus transport

At the end of the 1990s, the Ansbach station forecourt was redesigned and modernized and got a central bus station . All city and regional bus routes that connect the surrounding area with Ansbach stop there.

future

In order to relieve the Fürth main station node , the idea was given in 2009 to increase long-distance traffic between Würzburg and Munich via the Treuchtlingen - Würzburg railway line. According to the will of those responsible at Deutsche Bahn , the Ansbach train station should also benefit from the stop of the ICE . If these plans are implemented, extensive construction work will be necessary on the infrastructure. The city and district of Ansbach want to contribute 80,000  euros to the preliminary planning.

However, the long-distance transport concept 2030 published by DB Fernverkehr in 2015 no longer contains ICE connections for the Würzburg - Ansbach - Treuchtlingen route. There is only one daily tourist IC train pair from / to Hamburg and Upper Bavaria as well as the IC line Nuremberg - Stuttgart - Karlsruhe.

See also : List of train stations with stops for Intercity trains operated by Deutsche Bahn

literature

• Ansbacher Eisenbahnfreunde (Ed.): Commemorative publication on the anniversaries 125 years of Ansbach station and 90 years of branch line Wicklesgreuth - Windsbach . Ansbach 1984.
• Pro Bahn Mittelfranken (publisher): 150 years of the railway in Ansbach 1859-2009 - commemorative publication on the anniversary of the Ansbach-Gunzenhausen line . Ansbach 2009.

Web links

• Tracks in service facilities (NAN) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 682.36 KiB)
• The station Ansbach in the station looking for the Deutsche Bahn
• Railway system and some permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
• Reconstruction of Ansbach station in 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kuchinke, Stephan; The Ludwigs-Süd-Nordbahn ; Stuttgart, 1997.
2. ↑ Former engine shed burned down
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ Herrmann informs himself about the expansion of the Nuremberg S-Bahn. Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Transport, July 30, 2014, accessed on December 23, 2017 . 
5. ↑ New timetable: Extension of the S4 to Dombühl. Retrieved December 18, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Ansbach hopes to have its own ICE stop. (No longer available online.) Nürnberger Nachrichten, August 27, 2009, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 23, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
7. ↑ The new long-distance transport of the DB. (No longer available online.) DB Group, archived from the original on September 7, 2017 ; accessed on May 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.