Illingen (Württ) train station

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Illingen (Württ)
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Illingen station
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation TIL
IBNR 8003060
Price range 5
opening October 1, 1853
Profile on Bahnhof.de Illingen__Wuertt_
location
City / municipality Illingen
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 57 '23 "  N , 8 ° 55' 14"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 57 '23 "  N , 8 ° 55' 14"  E
Height ( SO ) 235  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines

Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Illingen (Württ) train station is located at kilometer 41 of the Württemberg Western Railway . It is served by regional trains every half hour between Bietigheim and Pforzheim on weekdays with hourly connections to Stuttgart or Bruchsal and every two hours to Heidelberg.

history

Planning and construction

When building the Westbahn , chief engineer Karl Etzel chose a relatively straight route from Bietigheim to Eckenweiher Hof . Illingen received a train station in the immediate vicinity. This is a rarity on the Württemberg part of the Western Railway, which only occurred in Großsachsenheim and Illingen. All other stations are topographically mostly kilometers away from the settlements.

The two-story entrance building resembled the existing building in Sachsenheim, but Illingen was given large gable dormers on the street and platform side, which enlarged the top floor. There was a goods shed to the east .

State Railroad Time

On October 1, 1853, the Royal Württemberg State Railroad opened the Westbahn and with it Illingen station. From 1859 to 1862, she expanded the line to two tracks .

Industry settled in and the population grew only slowly. Mainly carters benefited from the new means of transport, as the station was responsible for receiving goods from the municipalities of Mühlhausen an der Enz , Roßwag , Ensingen , Schützingen , Gündelbach and Häfnerhaslach . Some of the citizens of Vaihingen also used the train station: Although it was four and a half kilometers away from Vaihingen Nord train station (1863 Vaihingen-Sersheim), the way over the state road to Illingen saved the wagons the arduous climb up Vaihingen Bahnhofstrasse (today's Franckstrasse ).

In the 1860s, the General Management of the State Railroad examined several options for connecting the Northern Black Forest to the railway network, including in September 1862. The route proposed at that time was to branch off from the Western Railway, which had been two-tracked since that year, and via Vaihingen, Eberdingen , Weissach and Weil lead the city to Calw . In November 1864, engineers surveyed the site. However, this plan was not implemented, as early as February 1865 the Baden government approved that the Nagoldthalbahn - under Württemberg management - could keep its line beginning in Pforzheim .

Reich and Bundesbahn time

In 1935 the Deutsche Reichsbahn set up a loading ramp for military vehicles and troops, which was used several times during World War II .

After the war, road and rail traffic increased sharply. Illingen - located on two federal highways - felt this particularly hard. The Westbahn section Bietigheim – Mühlacker, electrified since October 6, 1951 and integrated into the suburban traffic in Stuttgart , was one of the most heavily used double-track lines in Germany. The level crossing on Bahnhofstrasse was therefore an obstacle. Backlogs in rush hour traffic up to Illinger Eck - the fork of the B 10 and the B 35 - were not uncommon. The municipal administration asked the Deutsche Bundesbahn to fix this problem.

The Federal Railroad responded and had a railway embankment built and a bridge built over Bahnhofstrasse. From 1973, track 2 could be used. Neither the municipality nor the federal railway were used for the station building and the goods shed, and both were torn down. In 1976, the new one-story building for the remote signal box and ticket sales in the flat roof style of the 1970s was inaugurated. With the construction of the new Mannheim – Stuttgart line , the east head of the station was rebuilt in 1989 to connect to the new Vaihingen station . Ticket sales were soon handed over to a travel agency that had been set up instead . After a few years, however, this sales option also shifted to ticket machines that were set up on the platforms and later replaced by the latest generation. The VPE tariff has been in force in local public transport since 1997 .

Rail operations

Regional trains serve the station. Track 1 is available for trains in the direction of Vaihingen (Enz) , track 2 for those in the direction of Mühlacker .

According to Deutsche Bahn AG, the Illingen (Württ) station corresponds to station category 5. Today it is only a stop, the alternative junction of which is served several times a day.

After Stuttgart, in Vaihingen (Enz) there is a platform-level transfer option to the faster Interregio-Express trains or Intercity trains, which enables a scheduled journey time of well under 30 minutes. It is also possible to change to the faster trains in the direction of Karlsruhe, so that Karlsruhe main station can be reached via Vaihingen (Enz) in around 50 minutes.

Regional traffic

line route Clock frequency
RB 17A Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Vaihingen (Enz) - Illingen (Württ) - Mühlacker - Pforzheim (- Wilferdingen-Singen / Bad Wildbad) Hourly (Mon-Fri between Bietigheim and Pforzheim every half hour)
RE 17B Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Vaihingen (Enz) - Illingen (Württ) - Mühlacker - Bretten - Bruchsal - Heidelberg Every two hours (alternating with RB 17C, between Stuttgart and Mühlacker together with RB 17A)
RB 17C Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Vaihingen (Enz) - Illingen (Württ) - Mühlacker - Bretten - Bruchsal Every two hours (alternating with RE 17B, between Stuttgart and Mühlacker together with RB 17A)

literature

  • Illingen and Schützingen . Published by the Illingen community. Illingen 1996, ISBN 3-931582-10-8 .
  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Kraichgau. Railway history between the Rhine and Neckar . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2006, ISBN 3-88255-769-9 , p. 242 .

Individual evidence