Leipzig / Halle Airport train station

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Leipzig / Halle Airport
Leipzig / Halle Airport train station
Leipzig / Halle Airport train station
Data
Operating point type railway station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation LFLU
IBNR 8012183
Price range 3
opening December 15, 2002
location
City / municipality Schkeuditz
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 25 '24 "  N , 12 ° 13' 22"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '24 "  N , 12 ° 13' 22"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations and stops in Saxony
i16 i16 i18

The Leipzig / Halle Airport railway station is a railway - operating agency of the new Erfurt-Leipzig central station . The train station is in Schkeuditz at Leipzig / Halle Airport between the two major cities of Leipzig and Halle (Saale) . It was opened on December 15, 2002, initially with only one connection to Leipzig. After the first construction phase of the new line between Gröbers and Leipzig was fully commissioned on June 30, 2003, continuous trains to and from Halle (Saale) were also able to use the airport station.

construction

The four-track system has two 410 m long side platforms on the outer overtaking tracks. Only on the east side is there a trapezoidal switch between the main tracks. Only in the extension of the northern platform track towards Gröbers is there a sweeping track for regional trains that end here. Due to this location, there is no clear directional operation on the platforms. The two inner tracks are used by passing trains. The platforms are roofed over a length of approx. 300 m by a sail-like plastic membrane that was attached to steel arches. The platforms are located directly below the airport terminal building. Escalators and elevators connect the platforms directly with the check-in area.

history

A cabinet decision of the Saxon state government demanded that a new line in the Leipzig area should be run via the airport.

The station was part of the planning approval section 3.2 of the new line. According to the planning status from 1995, the station should be at construction kilometer 102.0 of the new line.

Preliminary operation on December 20, 2002, the station is a construction site with a platform length that is only sufficient for a double multiple unit.

At the beginning of 2001, a delay in the commissioning of the station became known. Due to geological problems in the former mining area at the Gröbers railway junction, the commissioning of the Leipzig – Gröbers (-Halle) section was postponed by one year to 2003.

When the timetable changed on December 15, 2002, the section between Leipzig and the airport train station went into operation. Initially, class 642 railcars were used. Deutsche Bahn justified this with the low number of passengers. At the beginning of 2003, around 600 passengers per day used the half-hourly Airport Express between the airport, the exhibition grounds and Leipzig Central Station. At the time, work on connecting the new line was still going on at the Gröbers junction.

In the spring of 2003, a 24-hour ticket office was tested at the train station as well as ticket machines, where for the first time local and long-distance tickets could be purchased at the same machine.

Long-distance traffic operations began on June 30, 2003. The station was served by trains on IC lines 55 (Dresden– Dortmund ) and 56 (Leipzig– Oldenburg ). The regional transport line was also linked to Halle. On this day the station was officially "opened". Special trains from Leipzig and Magdeburg arrived at around 10 a.m.

The economic feasibility study for the Leipzig City Tunnel was based on two regional express lines superimposed every half hour between the airport train station and Leipzig city center.

The travel center in the train station was closed on May 3, 2019, and an agency has been selling tickets since May 4, 2019.

Transport links

Regional traffic

At the beginning of 2001 it was planned to connect the airport every 20 minutes by regional trains on the Halle-Leipzig line.

DB Regio announced in mid-2002 that it would set up a shuttle service to the airport from the end of the year. There was no underlying transport contract . According to the local transport board in Homburg , the company decided to make an attractive offer to its customers.

A RegionalExpress line ran on the Leipzig Hbf – Leipzig Messe – Leipzig / Halle Airport – Halle (Saale) Hbf line. The trains on this line ran every day from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. every 30 minutes, with every second train ending at the airport so that from Halle there were only 60-minute intervals. From December 2009 to April 2011, the compressors between Leipzig Hbf and the airport were operated by the Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn . In night traffic, the trains only ran every hour between Leipzig Hbf and the airport train station. The entire line between Leipzig and Leipzig / Halle Airport was canceled in 2011 for financial reasons. The airport – Halle (Saale) Hbf section was only served in night traffic on the nights before non-working days.

The Leipzig / Halle Airport train station belongs to the network area of ​​the Central German Transport Association (MDV) and is in its tariff zone 163.

With the completion of the Leipzig City Tunnel in December 2013, the airport train station was integrated into the Central German S-Bahn network, and the RegionalExpress line was replaced by two S-Bahn lines.

Long-distance transport

Before the 2015/16 timetable change, the station on the new Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line was connected to the cities of Hanover, Magdeburg, Halle (Saale) and Leipzig with hourly intercity trains. The trains continued to Cologne and Norddeich every two hours. In December 2015, the new line to Erfurt went into operation, with almost all ICE trains passing through without stopping. The stop on line 55 to Cologne was also canceled. A two-hour IC connection remained.

From February 19, 2016, long-distance trains stopped at the Leipzig / Halle Airport station. With the discontinuation of the stop, the punctuality of the IC trains should be increased. According to other reports, the top speed for IC 2, which was reduced to 120 km / h as a result of roll problems with the new double-decker ICs between Halle Hauptbahnhof and Leipzig-Mockau, should be compensated. Since the timetable change in December 2016, the IC trains on the Emden – Hanover – Leipzig and Dresden – Hanover – Cologne lines have stopped at the station again. With the 2017 timetable change, the last ICE stops were canceled. This means that the long-distance train station is only served by IC.

In the year it went into operation, an average of 33 long-distance trains stopped working days. In December 2015, an average of 16 long-distance trains stopped working days, and between February 19 and December 10, 2016 only two long-distance trains.

Line overview

line Line course Cycle (min) EVU
IC 55 Dresden - Leipzig - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Halle - Magdeburg - Hanover - Dortmund - Wuppertal - Cologne 120 DB long-distance transport
S 5 Halle - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Leipzig - Leipzig-Connewitz - Altenburg - Crimmitschau - Zwickau 060 (Halle – Altenburg)
120 (Altenburg – Zwickau) 		DB Regio Southeast
S 5X Halle - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Leipzig - Leipzig-Connewitz - Altenburg - Crimmitschau - Zwickau 060 DB Regio Southeast

outlook

In the third expert draft of the Deutschland-Takt presented in June 2020, a half-hourly S-Bahn service and 1.5 hourly long-distance train pairs are stored for the station.

Costs and financing

The station, which cost 40 million DM (around 20 million euros) (as of early 2001), was financed by the Free State of Saxony and Deutsche Bahn.

In mid-2014, the federal government put the cost of the station at around 11.7 million euros. These are eligible construction costs including 13 percent planning costs. The cost of the actual train station is given as around 5.7 million euros, the cost of its connection to around 6.0 million euros.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Flughafen Leipzig / Halle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Representation of the railway system, permissible speeds and some signals on the OpenRailwayMap

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Report airport train station later . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 3/2001, p. 100.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Watzlaw: Planungsbüro Bahnbau: Also the concerns of the ecology considered . In: Alliance 90 / Greens parliamentary group in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament (ed.): In the intoxication of speed . Halle (Saale), 1993, pp. 11-14.
  3. ^ Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit , Projektzentrum Leipzig (Ed.): Transport project German Unity - Rail No. 8: ABS / NBS Nuremberg - Erfurt - Halle / Leipzig - Berlin: Section Erfurt - Leipzig / Halle: Figures and facts . 20-page brochure, Leipzig, August 1995, pp. 8–9.
  4. ↑ a b NBS Erfurt - Leipzig / Halle . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 5/2003, p. 194.
  5. ^ Announcement First stage of the Leipzig - Erfurt new line goes into operation . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 7/2003, p. 291.
  6. ↑ a b Report NBS Leipzig / Halle Airport - Gröbers opened . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 10/2003, p. 430.
  7. ↑ Message Good start for the airport express . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 3/2003, p. 101.
  8. ↑ a b Report Leipzig / Halle Airport . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 6/2003, p. 244.
  9. ^ Announcement: Financing of the NBS Erfurt - Leipzig / Halle secured . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 8–9 / 2003, p. 340.
  10. ↑ Andreas Glowienka, Reinhard W. Heinemann, Dietmar Ludwig, Walter Stone: Leipzig City Tunnel: reactivation of the project around 1989 . In: City-Tunnel Leipzig. Chronicle of a railway connection from the 19th to the 21st century . Strom & Strom, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-9807618-4-3 , p. 69.
  11. ↑ From business communications . In: Locomotive Report . No. 11 , November 2019, ISSN  0344-7146 , p. 24-26 .
  12. ^ Report on the Airport Express in Leipzig . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 7/2002, p. 308.
  13. ↑ No more IC stops at the airport. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, February 11, 2016, accessed on March 24, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Halle / Leipzig Airport decoupled from the Intercity network. Frei Presse, dpa, February 12, 2016, accessed on March 24, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Problems with the "Intercity 2" of the DB . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 4 , 2016, p. 178 .
  16. ↑ Andreas Dunte: The new ICE line to Erfurt is a hit - 40 percent more passengers . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . December 9, 2016, p. 1 .
  17. ^ Marcus Grahnert: Database search - database long-distance traffic. Retrieved on July 22, 2018 (German).
  18. ↑ Destination timetable Germany-Takt. (PDF) Third expert draft Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt / Thuringia. SMA und Partner AG, June 30, 2020, accessed on July 22, 2020 .
  19. ↑ German Bundestag (ed.): Answer of the federal government to the small question of the MPs Matthias Gastel, Harald Ebner, Christian Kühn (Tübingen), other MPs and the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN - printed matter 18/1420 - station project Stuttgart 21 - cost development and project progress . tape 18 , no. 1606 . Berlin June 3, 2014, p. 10 ( PDF file ).