Lindau-Reutin train station

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Lindau-Reutin
Track systems of the Lindau-Reutin train station in 2012
Track systems of the Lindau-Reutin train station in 2012
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Design Through station
abbreviation MLIR
opening 1872
location
City / municipality Lindau (Lake Constance)
Place / district Reutin
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 47 ° 33 '8 "  N , 9 ° 42' 18"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '8 "  N , 9 ° 42' 18"  E
Height ( SO ) 399  m
Railway lines

Railway stations in Bavaria
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The Lindau Reutin station is the freight station of the city of Lindau (Bodensee) at the railway Lindau-Bludenz and Aeschacher curve . As part of the renovation of the Lindau railway junction, which began in 2016, it will be expanded into Lindau's new long-distance train station by December 2020.

Geographical location

The Lindau Central Station , which opened in 1854, is located on the island in Lake Constance that supports the historic old town of Lindau. This terminus station is connected via the Lindau Bodenseedamm with two double-track lines towards Aeschach and Reutin .

The station Lindau-Reutin contrast, is a transit station on the mainland in today Lindauer district Reutin. For through traffic, this location is more favorable than that of the existing main train station. The majority of the approximately 25,000 residents of Lindau also live on the mainland. Only about 3000 people live on the island. Several decades ago, this led to considerations - at least for continuous passenger traffic - to build a new train station in the most populous district of Reutin.

history

The Lindau-Reutin station was built as a freight station with the construction of the Lindau – Bludenz railway line after the station on the island had reached its spatial limits with freight traffic. In 1872 the Lindau marshalling yard with 21 freight tracks was put into operation. In 1876, the Lindau-Lokalbahnhof station followed for local trains, as well as mail and freight shipments and the construction of the Aeschach curve . In 1907, construction work began to enlarge the station, and the later station area was filled with rubble from Lake Constance. In the south of the facility, the 312 m long goods handling building and the loading street were built. The passenger station is in the Noden on Bregenzer Strasse. In November 1911, the station with the name Lindau-Ost was put into operation. Even then there were plans to stop long-distance trains only in Reutin instead of on the island. In 1913 a freight siding was opened in the Rickenbach district . In 1922 negotiations about passenger traffic to Rickenbach failed. In 1943 a barracks camp for forced laborers was built west of the station. Towards the end of the Second World War, the station was badly damaged by air raids. In 1980 passenger traffic in Lindau-Reutin was stopped. In 2006, the car loading, which had existed since 1969, was discontinued. Today the station is used for freight traffic.

From 1995 there were a number of different plans, all of which provided for the expansion of Lindau-Reutin station to become the new Lindau main station. The first took place as part of the " Bahnhof 21 " project series run by Deutsche Bahn (DB). It failed because the city considered the previous main station, the "Inselbahnhof", to be indispensable, but the railway only wanted to invest if it was abandoned.

From 2000 the DB tried again to implement its concept. That failed again: After two referendums in 2011 and 2012, the concept of the railway could no longer be implemented. Already after the first referendum, DB had the plan approval procedure it was running stop (see: here ).

modification

After the failure of the original project in 2011/12, there were renewed discussions between those involved, who had to include the results of the referendums. The compromise found, known in Lindau as the "combined solution ", includes the preservation of Lindau main train station to a lesser extent: The parking facility for vehicles and the filling station for vehicles powered by diesel fuel will be relocated to Reutin. This means that an area of ​​around five hectares can be released from railway operations and made available as building land in the future.

Also included is the conversion of the Reutin train station into a long-distance train station. A new electronic signal box (ESTW) will be set up there for the entire Lindau railway junction . The new long-distance train station Lindau-Reutin will have four platform edges (according to the visualization by DB Netz AG, two platforms with one track each and one platform with two tracks). In addition to long-distance traffic, the Vorarlberg S-Bahn and regional traffic will stop here. The regional and S-Bahn trains will also stop at the train station on Lindau Island. At the same time, the railway infrastructure of the approaching and departing routes to both stations will be comprehensively renewed, level crossings in the city area will be removed, the Aeschach stop will be modernized and equipped with platforms on the Allgäu Railway. In addition, the Oberreitnau district and the Hergensweiler , Schlachters and Weißensberg communities will receive new stops.

The cost of the entire measure was estimated at 130 million euros. In Reutin, an area of ​​around 12 hectares will be released from railway operations as a result of the renovation of the station and will therefore be available as building land in the future .

Lindau-Reutin railway station Construction progress April 2020
Lindau-Reutin railway station Construction progress April 2020
Lindau Reutin station (status of construction work July 2020)

The groundbreaking for the modernization of the railway systems in the Lindau area and thus for the conversion of the Lindau-Reutin station into a station for passenger traffic took place on October 24, 2016. However, construction work began earlier. Due to the location of the station, the platforms will only be accessible via overpasses a few meters above Lake Constance. This overpass also enables a transition over the track system to the loading street and to the shore of Lake Constance, after the steel truss pedestrian bridge that started west of the reception building on Bregenzer Straße was rammed by a truck with the loading crane extended too high and thus unusable and later completely demolished has been.

The new station will go into operation when the timetable changes in December 2020. Six daily connections will then be offered to Munich and Zurich, in particular through the expansion of the tilting technology and the electrification of the Geltendorf - Memmingen - Lindau-Reutin route , as well as the elimination of the previous change of traction and direction in Lindau main station, between the two cities about 20 minutes faster than before. For this purpose, from the timetable change, tilting technology multiple units of the type ETR 610 will be used instead of the previous, locomotive-hauled trains .

In August 2020 the city of Lindau acquired the reception building of the Reutin train station. The building is to be replaced by a new building.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lindau-Reutin train station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Dittrich: List of Abbreviations. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ pd / an: Groundbreaking ceremony in Lindau . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International, issue 12/2016, p. 606 f.
  3. ^ Manfred Rauscher: A through station for Lindau (Lake Constance) . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International, issue 5/2005, pp. 246–251.
  4. ↑ a b c d pd / an: Groundbreaking ceremony in Lindau , ERI 12/2016, p. 606.
  5. ↑ a b c pd / an: Groundbreaking ceremony in Lindau , ERI 12/2016, p. 607.
  6. ↑ Lindau train stations on the building information portal of Deutsche Bahn , accessed on July 22, 2018
  7. ↑ construction site blog | ABS 48: upgraded Munich-Lindau border D / A. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  8. ^ Karl Schweizer: 100 Years of Reutin Railway Station 1911 to 2011 edition-inseltor-lindau.de.
  9. ^ Zurich – Munich: New fleet, more connections and shorter travel times | SBB. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  10. ↑ New station planned: City of Lindau buys Reutin station building . all-in.de, August 17, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2020.