Roth railway station

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Roth
Roth Railway Station (2009)
Roth Railway Station (2009)
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 7th
abbreviation NGO
Price range 3
opening October 1, 1849
Profile on Bahnhof.de Roth
location
City / municipality Roth
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 14 '29 "  N , 11 ° 4' 58"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '29 "  N , 11 ° 4' 58"  E
Height (above sea level) 341  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Bavaria
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The Roth station is the station of Central Franconia district town Roth . It is part of the Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg line , the Roth – Greding branch line and the Nuremberg – Roth line built for the Nuremberg S-Bahn .

location

The train station is located in the southwest of the city, about 15 minutes' walk from the market square .

history

The station was built on the territory of the then community of Rothaurach . The opening of the station took place with the opening of the Schwabach - Pleinfeld section on October 1, 1849. In 1861 the place was referred to as the "Bahnwärterhaus" and "Eisenbahnhof". Between 1900 and 1904 the place Roth Bahnhof was incorporated into Roth. The Roth – Greding railway, which opened on June 1, 1888, branches off at Roth station . In the course of this, another station was opened in Roth's urban area (Lohgarten-Roth) about 1.5 kilometers from Roth train station. On June 9, 2001, the Nuremberg – Roth line went into operation parallel to the Nuremberg – Augsburg line . In the course of this, the station was given a new central platform north of the reception building with two separate platforms 90 and 91, which were only used by the S-Bahn , with the eastern track being a stump track and the western track being an extension of track 1 that runs past the house platform .

Current situation

Diesel multiple unit arriving from Hilpoltstein ( Roth – Greding branch )

traffic

Train type route Tact
RE Nuremberg - Schwabach - Roth - Treuchtlingen 60 minutes 1
RE Nuremberg - Schwabach - Roth - Treuchtlingen - Donauwörth - Augsburg 120 minutes
RB Nuremberg - Schwabach - Roth - Treuchtlingen - Donauwörth - Ingolstadt - Munich 120 minutes
RB Roth - Lohgarten-Roth - Eckersmühlen - Hilpoltstein 60 minutes 2
S. Altdorf - Feucht - Nuremberg - Reichelsdorf - Schwabach - Roth 20/40 minutes

1: only Monday to Friday; Gap between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m.
2: Monday to Friday 60-minute intervals, otherwise 120-minute intervals

(Status: 2020)

The regional express to Augsburg and the regional train to Munich complement each other on the joint section between Nuremberg and Treuchtlingen at 60-minute intervals. Be used normally for the regional express trains and regional trains to Munich railcars of type Bombardier TWINDEXX Vario (model series 445). Occasionally, still take electric locomotives of 111 series -covered double-deck - pull trains . On the regional train to Hilpoltstein run diesel railcars of the 642 series . The S-Bahn trains run with class 143 electric locomotives and four-part x-car push-pull trains .

Infrastructure

Today the station has seven platform tracks, in addition to the S-Bahn platform, a side platform on track 1, the main platform, and two central platforms between tracks 2 and 3 and 4 and 5. The platform on tracks 4 and 5 is not used in regular traffic. In the listed station building is a DB -Agentur. The platforms are barrier-free accessible via elevator systems . However, there are no toilets .

The speed limit in the station area is up to 140 km / h, by train traffic turnouts are equipped with 40 to 60 km / h passable.

In 2017, an application was made to dismantle a tank system in the south-east of the station. There are also two longer sidings available.

It was planned to keep the formerly existing houses above the staircases, which were removed during construction work. This is why there is only a temporary cover on the platform for tracks 4 and 5.

  • Nordkopf with the S-Bahn train arriving from Nuremberg

  • Track systems seen from the S-Bahn platform

In the station building there is a relay interlocking , on the southwest side there is also an electronic interlocking that controls the S-Bahn line . There is a GSM-R base station near the house platform .

outlook

The third expert draft of the Deutschland-Takt provides for three hourly S-Bahn train pairs and a half-hourly regional service. The line to Hilpoltstein will continue to be served every hour.

A study presented in August 2020 on the extension of the S-Bahn to Hilpoltstein recommends demolishing the reception building.

Lohgarten-Roth stop

The Lohgarten-Roth stop is more central to the city . From there it is a nine-minute walk to the city center. It lies on the Roth – Greding railway line, which opened on June 1, 1888 . In the course of this, this additional station was opened in Roth's urban area about 1.5 kilometers from Roth train station.

On May 28, 1972, the traffic on the 12 kilometer long section Thalmässing - Greding was stopped, although the bridge of the route near Hausen was widened before the construction of the hard shoulder of the federal motorway A9 . On September 29, 1974 the passenger train service on the 16 kilometer long section Thalmässing - Hilpoltstein was stopped. The freight between Hilpoltstein and Thalmässing ended 1 January 1998, September 30, 1999. In the decommissioning. Since then, passenger traffic has only taken place between Roth and Hilpoltstein.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abbreviation of the operating points 2020. Accessed on June 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Station price list 2020. Accessed on June 7, 2020 .
  3. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 1090 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized ).
  4. ↑ Administrative region Middle Franconia, administrative district Roth, city Roth, architectural monuments. D-5-76-143-1, Bahnhofstrasse 74. Roth train station; Station building. In: geodaten.bayern.de. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, April 16, 2020, p. 4 , accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Roth. Equipment features. In: bahnhof.de. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Martin Regner: Anyone who has to urgently at Roth train station has to wait five years. In: nordbayern.de. September 25, 2018, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Railway line No. 5971 Nuremberg - Roth, railway km 25,500 project “Dismantling of the tank system for rail vehicles in Roth”. (PDF) In: eba.bund.de. Federal Railway Office , September 13, 2017, archived from the original on September 17, 2020 ; accessed on June 17, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Destination timetable Germany-Takt. (PDF) Third expert draft Bavaria. SMA und Partner AG, June 30, 2020, accessed on July 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Stefan Bergauer: Will the Gredl become an S-Bahn? In: Hilpoltsteiner Zeitung . August 8, 2020.
  10. ↑ Jochen Münch: An ultra marathon for the "Grandpa Railway" . In: Hilpoltsteiner Kurier . No. 182 , August 8, 2020, ZDB -ID 1256658-5 , p. 21 ( online ).