Gaildorf West train station
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 Gaildorf West train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | TGAW |
| IBNR | 8002168 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | December 1, 1879 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Gaildorf_West |
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| City / municipality | Gaildorf |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 0 '12 " N , 9 ° 45' 14" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 348 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Gaildorf West Railway Station is located at kilometer 49.1 of Waiblingen-Schwäbisch Hall railway . It is served by Regional Express trains.
Until 2005, this was the starting point for the Upper Kocher Valley Railway to Untergröningen . Most of the line is closed and partially dismantled. The Gaildorf West – Schönberg section is still available for possible rail connections to the adjacent industrial companies. However, trains no longer run.
history
Planning and construction
In 1843 the city's first post office was set up in the Zur Krone inn . As of this year, express coaches running between Stuttgart and Nuremberg have stopped in Gaildorf three times a week . Two years later, railway construction began in Württemberg .
Due to the location on the Kocher , a favorable connection between Hall via Gaildorf and Aalen could be established without hesitation . In the summer of 1857, experts arrived and measured the area in the Oberamt .
But the route via Gaildorf was always in competition with a railway line through the Jagsttal , which made it possible to connect Ellwangen and Crailsheim . In June 1861 the Gaildorf Railway Committee sent a memorandum to Stuttgart. It included the request to continue the "Kocherbahn" Heilbronn – Hall , which is under construction, via the upper Kocher valley to Wasseralfingen .
Another committee, called the Central Comité and made up of citizens from the Waiblingen , Backnang and Gaildorf offices, petitioned the state parliament in March 1864 . In this they demanded the construction of a railway from Waiblingen via Backnang and Gaildorf to Hall.
The Ellwanger and Crailsheimers were finally able to convince parliament, and the state parliament decided on April 13, 1865 to continue the route west of Hall and along the Jagst. The Gaildorf deputy Friedrich Kausler, without understanding, wrote a memorandum in which he once again underlined the importance of his administrative city and described Ellwangen and Crailsheim as insignificant cities .
The railway connection in Gaildorf was delayed for a few years. In order to build the line from Waiblingen to Hall as quickly as possible, construction work began at both end points. On April 18, 1878, the first train coming from Backnang reached Murrhardt .
State Railroad Time
On December 1, 1879, the Royal Württemberg State Railroad opened the Hessenthal –Gaildorf section. This meant the end of the stagecoach connection between Stuttgart and Nuremberg. In order to close the remaining gap between Murrhardt and Gaildorf, a tunnel had to be dug under the Kappelesberg. The north portal is about 300 meters before the entrance to the train station. The last section Murrhardt – Gaildorf was completed on May 15, 1880.
The Gaildorf train station was outside - over a kilometer west of the city and 800 meters south of the hamlet of Kleinaltdorf.
The station building has been preserved. It is a three-storey building with a hipped roof , to which a single-storey extension covered with gable roofs connects to the north and south . The ground floor is made of light sandstone. The facade of the upper floors is clad with wooden shingles.
For Gaildorf, the railway connection did not bring the desired upswing. At the beginning of the 20th century, around 1,700 people lived in the town on the Kocher, hardly more than in previous decades. The development of Bahnhofstrasse began very slowly. In 1902, the state railway recorded a record number of wagon loads at the station - but only in the forestry sector: at no other station in the Kingdom of Württemberg was so much wood loaded that year.
Since the state railway did not want to tackle the construction of a railway line to Wasseralfingen, the private Württemberg railway company tried to build it. On October 1, 1903, the first trains rolled to Untergröningen. Gaildorf received another train station south of the city - Gaildorf Stadt.
Renaming
After the completion of the branch line, the state railway renamed the Gaildorf station in Gaildorf Staatsbahnhof .
On April 1, 1920, the state railway was part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The obsolete addition of the State Station was later replaced by the Reichsbahnhof (sign: Gaildorf Reichsbahn ).
This designation lasted until after the Second World War . In the meantime, the addition of the Reichsbahn was a thing of the past. The Stuttgart Federal Railway Directorate decided to rename the station in Gaildorf West.
Time of the Deutsche Bahn AG and deedication of the Oberen Kochertalbahn
On May 31, 1996, Deutsche Bahn electrified the line from Crailsheim to Marbach (Neckar) .
The number of passengers on the Oberen Kochertalbahn has been falling steadily. As of May 15, 2000, buses took over most of the passenger transport. In addition to falling passenger numbers, there was also a deterioration in the condition of the route. On October 17, 2005, operations ceased. The Gaildorf West – Schönberg section is to be retained as a freight track.
Although the Gaildorf Stadt train station was now closed, Deutsche Bahn decided not to rename the only remaining train station in the city.
Rail operations
The station is served by regional trains. As planned, no more trains stop on track 1, on the house platform , it serves passing trains towards Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental. The trains stop on platform 2 in both directions. As planned, no trains will stop on platform 3 either. It is used by trains going through to Backnang.
According to Deutsche Bahn AG, Gaildorf West station corresponds to station category 6.
Regional traffic
Gaildorf-West station is served by the following Regional Express (RE) and Regionalbahn (RB) lines (as of December 2019). The overlapping between Stuttgart and Gaildorf-West creates a 30-minute cycle on weekdays.
| route | Clock frequency | |
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| RE 90 | Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt - Waiblingen - Backnang - Gaildorf West - Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental - Crailsheim - Ansbach - Nuremberg | 120-minute intervals |
| RE 19 | Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt - Waiblingen - Backnang - Gaildorf West - Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental (- Crailsheim) | 120-minute intervals |
| RB 19 | Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt - Waiblingen - Backnang - Gaildorf West | 60-minute intervals |
Web links
literature
- Klaus Rieder: Small town on the river. Gaildorf story . Ed .: Heike Krause. Gaildorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-031540-4 .
- The district of Schwäbisch Hall. Volume 1 . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 785 at Deutsche Bahn.