Orxhausen station

Orxhausen
Data
Operating point type	Depot
Platform tracks	0
abbreviation	HORX
opening	1991
location
City / municipality	Einbeck
Place / district	Orxhausen
country	Lower Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 51 '22 " N , 9 ° 59' 17" E Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '22 " N , 9 ° 59' 17" E
Railway lines
	SFS Hannover – Würzburg (km 62.2);
Railway stations in Lower Saxony

BW

The Orxhausen Station is a depot at kilometer 62 of the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed railway .

The railway system is located east of the village of Orxhausen , which belongs to the Lower Saxon town of Einbeck , and therefore bears its name.

Location and structure

The approximately 2000 m long train station is between the Gande valley bridge and the Hopfenberg tunnel .

The depot was used as an extended type with a Aufstellgleis (without catenary ), four sidings for construction and maintenance vehicles, a signal box and two extended stump tracks built. On both sides of the continuous main tracks there is an overtaking track with a usable length of 750 m. The two southern stump tracks have now been closed (as of April 1, 2011). The two continuous main tracks were connected to each other in the two station heads by changing tracks with four points each. The northern track changeover located on the Gandetalbrücke was dismantled at the end of the 1990s.

In addition to a switch assembly area, a (partially covered) superstructure storage area was also created.

A signal box on the premises of the railway system controls the depot. The Escherde depot is also remotely controlled from there. Social and common rooms were also created in the signal box.

Large parts of the railway system are located in a 2 to 6.5 m deep cut in a layer of loess clay several meters deep . The adjoining slopes are relatively flat (slope ratios from 1: 1.8 to 1: 2.5). To the south, towards the tunnel portal, the cut reaches a depth of up to 21 m. The station is located on a longitudinal gradient of 1.5 per thousand.

The station is connected to the K 645 district road via a driveway. During the construction phase of the station, this road was re-routed over a length of 750 m, raised and led over a bridge over the new line. As a replacement for several farm roads interrupted by the station, a new farm road was built east of the railway system.

history

The location of the train station proved to be favorable in order not to exceed the specified longitudinal slope of 1.5 per thousand.

In the planning and construction phase, the facility was in the planning approval section 2.12 of the new line. The station went into operation in June 1991 together with the Hanover – Edesheim section of the line.

On January 6, 2002, a tower car (TVT) derailed at the entrance to the depot because the elements of a switch were not in a coordinated position.

The station's electronic signal box , including the LZB control center, was renewed in 2012. Since then, it has been remote-controlled from the Hanover operations center.

Web links

Location and tracks of the station on the OpenRailwayMap
View over the depot and picture of the signal box on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de

Individual evidence

^ DB project group Hanover-Würzburg (North) (ed.): New line Hanover-Würzburg: Bad Gandersheim. , Brochure (14 pages, folded) as of April 1, 1984.
^ ^A ^b Project group Hannover-Würzburg North of the railway construction center at the Federal Railway Directorate Hannover (Ed.): New line Hannover – Würzburg: The section Hannover – Würzburg: The section Hannover – Northeim . 42-page brochure, 1984, pp. 9, 11.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group Hanover – Würzburg North of the Federal Railway Directorate Hanover: The new Hanover – Würzburg line. The Hanover – Northeim section . Brochure (43 pages) from 1984, p. 11.
↑ DB Netz AG (Ed.): Tracks in service facilities (PDF; 134 kB). Document dated April 1, 2011, p. 7.
↑ ^a ^b Deutsche Bundesbahn (Ed.): New Hanover – Würzburg line. The Hanover – Northeim section . Brochure, 42-page brochure, Hanover 1986, p. 10.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f DB, project group Hannover – Würzburg (North) (ed.): New Hanover-Würzburg line: Kreiensen, Orxhausen, Bentierorde, Billerbeck . Twelve-page fold-out brochure as of July 1, 1984.
^ DB project group Hanover-Würzburg (North) (Ed.): Giesen. Nordstemmen , brochure (12 pages, folded) as of November 1, 1984.
↑ Notification of safety problems with the high-speed switch . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , edition 2/2002, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 50.

[nbs-1984-211212n-1] DB project group Hanover-Würzburg (North) (ed.): New line Hanover-Würzburg: Bad Gandersheim. , Brochure (14 pages, folded) as of April 1, 1984.

[db-1984-11-2] A ^b Project group Hannover-Würzburg North of the railway construction center at the Federal Railway Directorate Hannover (Ed.): New line Hannover – Würzburg: The section Hannover – Würzburg: The section Hannover – Northeim . 42-page brochure, 1984, pp. 9, 11.

[bundesbahn-1984-11-3] Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group Hanover – Würzburg North of the Federal Railway Directorate Hanover: The new Hanover – Würzburg line. The Hanover – Northeim section . Brochure (43 pages) from 1984, p. 11.

[db-2011-04-4] DB Netz AG (Ed.): Tracks in service facilities (PDF; 134 kB). Document dated April 1, 2011, p. 7.

[db-1986-10-5] Deutsche Bundesbahn (Ed.): New Hanover – Würzburg line. The Hanover – Northeim section . Brochure, 42-page brochure, Hanover 1986, p. 10.

[db-1984-07-6] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f DB, project group Hannover – Würzburg (North) (ed.): New Hanover-Würzburg line: Kreiensen, Orxhausen, Bentierorde, Billerbeck . Twelve-page fold-out brochure as of July 1, 1984.

[nbs-1984-102-7] DB project group Hanover-Würzburg (North) (Ed.): Giesen. Nordstemmen , brochure (12 pages, folded) as of November 1, 1984.

[eri-2002-50-8] Notification of safety problems with the high-speed switch . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , edition 2/2002, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 50.