Epfenhausen station
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 former station building in 2014
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| Operating point type | Alternate junction |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | MEPH |
| opening | May 1, 1873 |
| Conveyance | May 29, 1985 (passenger service) |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Home style |
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| City / municipality | Penzing (Bavaria) |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 5 '49 " N , 10 ° 55' 2" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 595 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
The station Epfenhausen is a former railway station in the district Epfenhausen the Upper Bavarian municipality Penzing to the Bavarian Allgäu railway from Munich to Lindau . Furthermore, a siding to the Landsberg / Lech Air Base begins in Epfenhausen . The station has three tracks, two of which were equipped with intermediate platforms. After dismantling, it is only operationally an alternative connection point.
Epfenhausen station was opened in 1873 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways as a through station on the Munich – Buchloe railway line. In 1936 it became a separation station with the opening of the siding from Epfenhausen to Landsberg / Lech Air Base . The station has not been used for passenger traffic since 1985. However, freight trains still run sporadically from Munich via Epfenhausen to Penzing . On the siding to Penzing there was non-public passenger traffic in the 1960s and 1970s.
location
The station is located in the municipality of Penzing between the districts of Untermühlhausen in the south and Epfenhausen in the west, separated by the railway line. The station building is north of the tracks on Bahnhofstrasse, which connects the station to Epfenhausen, north of the line. The operating buildings of the station are outside the local area, the next buildings are about 150 meters away. To the west of the station, Burgstallstrasse crosses the tracks through an underpass and connects the station to Untermühlhausen. About 600 meters to the west, State Road 2052 crosses under the railroad tracks. Between the two road underpasses, the railway line crosses the Lost Bach, a section of the Friedberger Ach .
The Bavarian Allgäu Railway ( VzG 5520), where the train station is located, runs from Munich via Buchloe and Kempten to Lindau on Lake Constance . It is a double-track, non-electrified main line and is used in regional traffic from Munich to Allgäu as well as in international long-distance traffic to Switzerland . The Deutsche Bahn runs it as the route book route 970 Munich – Lindau / Oberstdorf .
history
On April 9, 1869, the Bavarian State Parliament passed the law to build a railway line from Munich to Memmingen , which was to connect to the Ludwigs-Süd-Nord-Bahn in Buchloe . No station was planned in Epfenhausen in the preliminary planning. Due to the demands of the municipality of Epfenhausen and twelve surrounding municipalities, which together had a population of over 4,500, the Royal Bavarian Transport Authority finally agreed to the construction of the station. At the end of 1869, construction work began on the railway line from Munich to Buchloe. On May 1, 1873, the Royal Bavarian State Railways opened the main line, known as the Bavarian Allgäu Railway, and the Epfenhausen through station.
The Epfenhausen train station had a two-storey reception building with a hipped roof . A goods shed with a loading ramp was built to the east of the building . There were two platform tracks with bulk platforms and a loading track. In 1891, the Bavarian State Railways built a wooden extension for the signal box on the south-west corner of the reception building , which was then known as the Centralapparat .
From 1935 to 1937 the Penzing Air Base was built south of the train station . To transport materials and aviation fuel, a siding to Penzing was put into operation in 1936, which branches off from the Allgäu Railway in Epfenhausen. The track systems in the station area were rebuilt so that freight train journeys to the air base were possible more frequently. The station received a fourth, platform-free track south of the previous track system for the freight trains to Penzing. As the importance of the station for passenger and freight traffic increased significantly, the Deutsche Reichsbahn modernized and expanded the station building from 1937 to 1938. The small wooden signal box front building was replaced by a brick front building along the entire length of the building. A long, single-storey extension with a covered, open waiting hall on the track side was built on the west side. The Reichsbahn replaced the hipped roof with a gable roof . The previous goods shed was demolished and replaced by a new building. During the Second World War , the station gained greater importance due to the branching off siding.
In the 1960s and 1970s, non-public passenger trains ran daily on the siding to Penzing to connect the air base. From the 1970s, the station was served by fewer and fewer passenger trains due to the decline in passenger numbers. In 1979 the Deutsche Bundesbahn shut down the mechanical signal box in Epfenhausen and from then on switched the station's switches and signals from Kaufering . In 1985, the German Federal Railroad decided to remove the level crossings along the Allgäubahn, as these represented too great an accident risk at a top speed of up to 140 km / h. The construction of a platform underpass would have been too cost-intensive in the previously uneconomical Epfenhausen station with its low passenger numbers. Therefore, on May 29, 1985, the DB ceased passenger services in Epfenhausen. The station has not been occupied since then.
At the end of the 1980s, regular freight traffic on the siding ended, and since then the connection has only been operated sporadically. In 1994 the Deutsche Bahn stopped the local freight traffic at the station. The loading track was shut down a few years later by removing the switches and partially dismantled in 2002. At the beginning of 2005, Deutsche Bahn sold the station building to a private person.
construction
Reception building
The station building from 1873 was a two-story brick building with a hipped roof and had a floor area of 10.9 by 17.4 meters. There are similar station buildings in Grafrath and Türkheim . On the ground floor there were seven larger rooms, three of which were used as apartments. The rest of the rooms housed the waiting room, service rooms and baggage check-in. On the first floor there were apartments for railway employees. On the track side of the building, a wooden canopy was installed along its entire length. Windows and doors were arranged asymmetrically, the window frames, the outer edges of the building and the area below the roof approach were provided with decorative ribbons made of light stone. From 1891 there was a small wooden signal box with large lattice windows on the south-west corner of the building under the canopy .
In 1937 and 1938 the reception building was fundamentally rebuilt and expanded. Here, the already in the station buildings was Ammersee Railway usual home style used. Since then, the station building has had a steeper gable roof instead of the flat hipped roof . On the track side there is a single-storey brick porch with a monopitch roof , which until 1979 housed the mechanical signal box of the standard design. On the west side, there is also a single-storey brick extension, in which the counter and waiting room were located. Between the two annexes a semi-open waiting area was available through a wooden wicket was separated from the platforms. The western extension and the waiting room were covered by a shared hipped roof, which was supported by brick and wooden pillars in the area of the waiting room.
After the cessation of passenger traffic, the station building, which was no longer occupied, stood empty for a long time and its condition deteriorated. In 2005 it was sold to a private person and is now used commercially together with the former goods shed. For this, the building was rebuilt and provided with a new gable roof with a larger overhang. The waiting hall was walled up and integrated into the building, and a new external staircase was installed on the east side of the building.
Track systems
When it opened, Epfenhausen station had two platform tracks, which were equipped with intermediate platforms designed as bulk platforms . In addition, there was a loading track connected on both sides, to which a stump track was connected in the west and east. The loading track was located between the platforms and the station building and could be crossed over the entire length of the first intermediate platform, while the second intermediate platform could only be reached via a narrow level crossing. In the early years, the course was set on site by change attendants. In 1891 the Royal Bavarian State Railways put a mechanical signal box into operation.
In 1936 the Deutsche Reichsbahn expanded the track system with the commissioning of the siding. A fourth track was added to the south of the platforms, which was connected on both sides. A stump track is connected in the east, in the west the track continues in the siding to Penzing. The siding runs for 1.3 kilometers parallel to the Allgäu Railway to the west and then turns south. Therefore, the two underpasses in this area had to be extended for the third track. In the course of the renovation, the Deutsche Reichsbahn replaced the station's bulk platforms with paved platforms in the same location. After the suspension of passenger traffic in 1985, most of the platforms were removed.
From 1979 the switches and signals of the station were remotely controlled by a track plan pushbutton interlocking of the standard electrical Lorenz L 60 type in the Kaufering station . After the end of freight traffic, the points of the loading track were removed and the track was closed. In 2002 the track in the area of the reception building was dismantled along with the remains of the platform. Remnants of the loading siding and the western dead end with switch and buffer stop are still present. Today the tracks consist of the two continuous main tracks of the Allgäu Railway, between which there are no longer any switch connections, and the connecting track to the air base with butt track, which is only connected on one side. The branch point of the siding was ultimately the only point in the station that was still set by the Kaufering signal box. Since November 23, 2015, it has been remotely activated by the newly built electronic signal box in Geltendorf station . The switch to the eastern dead-end track is set manually on site.
traffic
passenger traffic
The Epfenhausen station was served by local trains from 1873 , later by passenger trains of the Allgäu Railway. In 1914 six pairs of trains stopped in Epfenhausen . There were three passenger trains from Munich to Lindau and two from Lindau to Munich, one from Munich to Kempten and two in the opposite direction, two from Munich to Buchloe and one in the opposite direction, as well as a train from Kaufering to Munich. By 1939 the number of pairs of passenger trains had risen to nine, four of which ran from Munich to Kempten and five to Buchloe. In the Second World War, the number of trains decreased again, so that in 1944 there were still six pairs of trains running.
In 1971 the station was again served by ten pairs of trains every day, although not all local trains were connected to Munich. In addition to seven pairs of trains from Munich to Buchloe, Kempten and Memmingen , there was a pair of trains from Geltendorf to Kaufering, two from Geltendorf to Landsberg and one from Geltendorf to Buchloe. In the 1960s and 1970s, private passenger traffic took place on the siding to Penzing. A military train drove daily from Epfenhausen to Landsberg / Lech Air Base, and from 1969 to 1975 a military train called the Elo-Express was also used from Penzing via Epfenhausen to the bunker facility in Kaufering. The services were driven by Uerdinger rail buses. On May 29, 1985, the Deutsche Bundesbahn stopped passenger services at Epfenhausen station.
Freight transport
In the early years there was only minor freight traffic in Epfenhausen. Agricultural products, cattle, machines and general cargo were loaded at the goods shed. With the construction of the siding, freight traffic increased significantly. From 1936, freight trains transported building materials, aviation fuel, machines and ammunition to Penzing Air Base. From the 1970s onwards, with increasing individual traffic, the transport of goods in Epfenhausen declined. At the end of the 1980s, the construction of a pipeline ended the transport of aviation fuel to the air base. Since then, the siding has only been used sporadically for freight traffic. In 1994, Deutsche Bahn completely stopped local freight traffic.
literature
- Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7455-9 .
Web links
- Description of the Epfenhausen train station on Ammerseebahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roman Dilken: Route Portrait ( Memento of 17 October 2018 Internet Archive ). In: kbs970.de .
- ↑ a b c Alwin Reiter: Epfenhausen ( Memento from January 11, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: ammerseebahn.de .
- ↑ a b c Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . 2011, p. 49 .
- ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . 2011, p. 33-34 .
- ↑ a b Roman Dilken: A virtual journey on the KBS 970 from Munich to Lindau ( Memento of 30 March 2019 Internet Archive ). In: kbs970.de .
- ↑ a b c d Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . 2011, p. 50 .
- ^ Andreas Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn. Traffic development in western Upper Bavaria . Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 , pp. 106 .
- ^ Stephanie Millonig: Wanted tenant for kiosk. In: Augsburger Allgemeine , January 8, 2016.
- ^ Course book table 1915 in the course book from 1914 on deutsches-kursbuch.de, accessed on April 7, 2014.
- ↑ Course book table 405 in the course book from 1939 on deutsches-kursbuch.de, accessed on April 8, 2014.
- ↑ Kursbuch table 406 in the timetable from 1944 to pkjs.de, accessed on April 8, 2014.
- ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . 2011, p. 365-370 .
- ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . 2011, p. 336 .
