Rammelsbach station

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Rammelsbach
Rammelsbach station with staff before the First World War
Rammelsbach station with staff before the First World War
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation SRCH
IBNR 8004929
Price range 7th
opening 1878
location
City / municipality Rammelsbach
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 32 '32 "  N , 7 ° 26' 39"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '32 "  N , 7 ° 26' 39"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Rammelsbach station is the railway operations center of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Rammelsbach . It belongs to station category 7 and has one platform track . The station is in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 770. The address of the station is Bahnhofstrasse 2 .

It was put into operation on September 22, 1878 as a through station on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line, which had already been opened ten years earlier . As a goods tariff point, it is still of great importance today due to the neighboring Rammelsbach quarry. Along the entire route, it is the only stop on the way that has freight traffic.

location

Local situation

The stop is located on the northern outskirts of Rammelsbach not far from the Kuselbach , which in this area runs parallel to the railway line. Settlement area extends both north and south of the station.

The stop is 212.2 meters above sea level between the railway stations Altenglan (km 0.0) in the east and Kusel (km 4.5) in the north. The train station has parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces and barrier-free access.

Railway line

The Landstuhl – Kusel railway runs in this area from east-northeast to west-southwest. Originally, it was mile long. The station was therefore at the route kilometer 26.0. With the opening of the Glantalbahn, which was built for strategic reasons and into which the Glan-Münchweiler-Altenglan section was incorporated, the existing line between Altenglan and Kusel had a new kilometer line that is still in use today.

history

Development of the station and subsequent period (1860–1945)

According to a memorandum published in Kusel in 1861, the railway was to branch off from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway in Landstuhl and lead along Mohrbach , Glan and Kuselbach via Rammelsbach to Kusel. The memorandum argued, among other things, that building a railway would counteract the poor economic and social conditions in the region.

The construction of the 28.7 kilometer stretch from Landstuhl to Kusel was largely uncomplicated. Cuts in the terrain were only necessary at Rammelsbach , whereby the construction workers came across a diorite deposit, which was further mined in the following period and gave rail traffic an additional boost. The construction work on the section between Glan-Münchweiler and Kusel was delayed because not enough workers could be recruited. The first freight train ran on August 28, 1868. Theisbergstegen station was officially opened on September 22, 1868 with the commissioning of the Landstuhl – Kusel line - at that time part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . The new railway line was received very positively by the population, as it improved the infrastructure in the rural region northwest of Kaiserslautern .

Although the nearby Rammelsbach quarry was the first freight customer on the line, initially only the two mixed trains stopped on site. Rammelsbach was also initially denied a station building. It was not approved until 1878; However, this was only the size of a station keeper's house and served as a temporary measure. In 1898 Rammelsbach received a "real" station building.

In the 1920s, the Rammelsbach station was expanded for freight traffic. In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution on May 1, 1936, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Saarbrücken management.

Further development

The German Federal Railways was divided the station after the Second World War in the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz one, they all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate allotted. In 1971, in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management, the hold came back into the area of ​​responsibility of its Saarbrücken counterpart.

In 2000 the station, like the entire West Palatinate, first became part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV), before it was merged with the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later .

Building

Reception building

The station building was completed in 1898. It contains the decorative elements made of hard stone. Over the years it has undergone several modifications. It no longer matters for rail traffic.

platform

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 130 m 55 cm Regional trains in the direction of Kaiserslautern and Kusel

traffic

passenger traffic

Initially there were two mixed trains and two pure passenger trains . In 1905 a total of 13,736 tickets were sold in Rammelsbach.

After the full length of the Glantalbahn , which ran from Glan-Münchweiler to Altenglan together with the Kuseler line, was opened in 1904, further journeys took place between Altenglan and Kusel, connecting them to the former's trains. Just a few years later, trains were running between Homburg and Kusel, which mainly served the miners from the region around Kusel employed in the Saar region. After the Second World War, in the course of the separation of what is now Saarland, their access was forbidden for the common population.

Although the railway line from Türkismühle in Kusel station immediately merged with that from Altenglan, there were no through trains, with a few exceptions, so that you usually had to change trains in Kusel. For example, there was a continuous connection from Türkismühle to Altenglan only in 1937. In the 1930s in particular, there were several corner connections on the railway lines in the Glan and Lauter catchment area, such as Kaiserslautern – Lauterecken – Altenglan – Kusel.

Current connections

line route Clock frequency
RB 67 Kaiserslautern - Landstuhl - Glan-Münchweiler - Altenglan - Rammelsbach - Kusel Hourly

Freight transport

Because of the Rammelsbach quarry, the station has always been of great importance in freight traffic. In 1905 he received or dispatched a total of 194,926.06 tons of goods.

In 1920 a local freight train ran on the Kaiserslautern – Kusel route and one from Altenglan to Kusel. The station has not played a role in reception since 1988. The last freight wagon that was unloaded in this regard was a coal wagon on May 24th of that year.

Block trains still run from the quarry with gravel to the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line .

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (=  publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science . Volume 53 ). pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Honeycomb plan. In: vrn.de. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b bahnhof.de: Station profile > Rammelsbach . Retrieved October 8, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 70 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 77 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 7th ff .
  6. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 174 f .
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 42 .
  8. ↑ kaiserslautern-kreis.de: Local public transport and school transport . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 35 .
  10. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 101 .
  11. ↑ bahnhof.de: platform information > Rammelsbach . Archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved October 8, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 34 .
  13. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 36 .
  14. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 37 .
  15. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 52 .
  16. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 49 .
  17. ↑ kaiserslautern-kreis.de: Kaiserslautern County: Transportation school bus. Retrieved November 17, 2012 .
  18. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 40 .
  19. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 65 .
  20. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 123 .
  21. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 67 .
  22. ↑ jan-steffen-gabriel.de: Railway Landstuhl - Kusel . Archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; Retrieved March 23, 2013 .