Baumholder station
| Baumholder | |
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 Railway station with military train, 2006
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| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | SBH |
| opening | December 15, 1912 |
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| City / municipality | Baumholder |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 36 '44 " N , 7 ° 19' 51" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 479 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The station Baumholder is the terminus of the railway line Heimbach Baumholder . The station is in the center of the town of Baumholder in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Birkenfeld . Between 1981 and December 2014 it was used exclusively for the freight transport of the US Army and the German Armed Forces .
history
A Prussian law on the construction of a Heimbach – Baumholder small railway began in 1908 with the construction of the railway line . The line was finally opened on December 15, 1912. Despite the First World War , which broke out a short time later, traffic on the branch line developed quite well.
After the Baumholder military training area was built in 1937 and 1938, the Heimbach – Baumholder route experienced an upswing. In this context, the tracks in Baumholder station were expanded considerably. The station has a head ramp and a side ramp, and there are another three head ramps in the separate US Army station. Due to the large number of tracks, there are many shunting options.
Due to declining passenger numbers, passenger traffic was discontinued on May 31, 1981. Freight traffic has continued to this day with regard to the military training area. Buses took over the passenger transport.
On the occasion of the Rhineland-Palatinate Day 2007 in Baumholder , regional trains ran between Heimbach and Baumholder for the first time since 1981 from June 29, 2007 to July 1, 2007 .
In its meeting on December 10, 2008, the regional rail passenger transport association Rhineland-Palatinate South (ZSPNV Süd) decided to reactivate the Heimbach – Baumholder route for the 2014/2015 timetable change in December 2014 for passenger traffic. As part of the tender for the "Southwest Diesel Network", it is planned that trains will run between Baumholder and Kirn every hour . At the end of February 2012, ZSPNV Süd awarded the planned transports to the Regentalbahn , which will use Alstom Coradia LINT 54 and 81 vehicles there . The trains are operated by their subsidiary " vlexx GmbH " on behalf of the Regentalbahn . In this context, Baumholder station was completely renovated in summer 2014. In addition to the renovation of the house platform , a makeshift platform was built. In addition, the entire area around the station will be renewed.
Infrastructure
The station Baumholder heard the end of 2006 community of Baumholder which it together with the entire railway line the previous owner DB Netz has bought. Both the purchase price of EUR 310,000 and investments of around EUR 1.5 million were taken over by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The main users of the route, the US Army and the German Armed Forces, cover the annual operating cost deficit of around EUR 100,000 in a ratio of 80:20. Since December 10, 2006, the municipality has been entrusting RP-Eisenbahn with the management of the railway infrastructure company ; the railway company is usually DB Cargo .
The platforms in Baumholder station are 140 meters long and 55 centimeters high .
The train operator in Mulda, Saxony, monitors the route used in train control operations . The switches in the station can either be controlled from the signal box in Baumholder , or they are set with the aid of push buttons next to the tracks in EOW operation .
traffic
From the scheduled change of the 2014/2015 timetable on December 14, 2014, the newly established regional train line RB 34 runs every hour from Baumholder via Heimbach (Nahe) and Idar-Oberstein to Kirn, where on the same platform opposite after a short stop the from Saarbrücken to Mainz / Frankfurt operating Nahe-Express can be reached. This means that there is a connection from Baumholder every two hours with only one change to Frankfurt Airport .
The vlexx GmbH uses trains of the type LINT 54 and 81 a.
Web links
- Heimbach (Nahe) –Baumholder: Information from the operator RP-Eisenbahn
- Information about Baumholder train station and the Heimbach (Nahe) –Baumholder route
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 680 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ ZSPNV Süd: Baumholder - Heimbach rail line will be reactivated in December 2014 ( Memento from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ spnv-sued.de. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 10, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Heimbach - Baumholder railway line is reactivated
- ↑ Significant upgrade for the train station and laundry stream
- ^ Rhein-Zeitung of December 29, 2006
- ^ "European Private Railways '07", DVV Media Group, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-7771-0365-5 , p. 295
- ↑ a b Route data Heimbach (Nahe) - Baumholder. In: rp-eisenbahn.de. October 2014, accessed January 27, 2020 .