Schwaikheim train station

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Schwaikheim
Schwaikheim station.jpg
Schwaikheim stop
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation TSWK
IBNR 8005454
Price range 5
opening October 26, 1876
Profile on Bahnhof.de Schwaikheim
location
City / municipality Schwaikheim
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 52 '5 "  N , 9 ° 21' 16"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '5 "  N , 9 ° 21' 16"  E
Height ( SO ) 289  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Schwaikheim station located at kilometer 6.8 of Waiblingen-Schwäbisch Hall railway and is a station in the network of S-Bahn Stuttgart . According to the railway building and operating regulations, however, it is not a train station , but a stopping point .

history

Planning and construction

In the 1860s, engineers planned a railway line from Waiblingen to Backnang . You worked out two proposals for the time being. In the first route would be basket after Winnenden come. The second suggestion was to leave the route in the Rems Valley as far as possible and to turn it northwards at Großheppach .

Ultimately, the decision was made to build a viaduct over the Rems near Neustadt and the current route. The Schwaikheim mayor Gebhard Friedrich Simon, who was a member of the state parliament at the time , tried hard to get a rail connection for his home town.

Some earthworks were necessary in the Schwaikheim area. In order to direct the railway line from the Erbachtal to the Winnender Höhe, the Royal Württemberg State Railway had to dig a tunnel. For the straight course in a westerly direction, a railway embankment was built over the Lohwiesenbach.

The station was built one kilometer south of Schwaikheim. The state railroad offered the municipal administration the construction of a passage for a country road. But this refused and only required the width of a pedestrian path.

The station building has been preserved. It is a two-story, 15-meter-long and nine-meter-wide building with a gable roof . The ground floor is made of sandstone, the upper floor is made of brick. Initially, there was also space for a post office with a telegraph on the ground floor.

Opening and development

On October 26, 1876, the grand opening of the Schwaikheim train station took place. On that day, the state railway put the first section of the Murrtalbahn between Waiblingen and Backnang into operation.

The municipal administration laid out Bahnhofstrasse. Initially, however, only as an unpaved dirt road. It was not until 1907 that it was expanded and continued to become the state road (today Kreisstraße 1911 Waiblingen – Winnenden).

Schwaikheim grew in the direction of the train station and developed from a farming village into a workers' settlement. Many of them only pursued agriculture as a sideline.

modernization

From 1962 to 1965 the two-track expansion and electrification of the Waiblingen – Backnang section took place with simultaneous integration into the Stuttgart suburban traffic . A new double-track tunnel was built next to the old single-track Schwaikheim tunnel. The route had to be swiveled a little on both sides of the station. During this renovation, the station was given a pedestrian underpass. The Deutsche Bundesbahn planned it to be two meters wide. But the municipal administration prevailed with their request for three meters.

As a further improvement in local traffic, the Federal Railroad put the S-Bahn line S3 Backnang - Schwabstrasse into operation on September 27, 1981 .

Infrastructure

Until 1965, the station had a siding on the then single-track Murrbahn. Since the two-track expansion, there is no longer any alternative. The two main tracks have outside platforms. Until the 1990s, there was also a loading track to the east of the reception building that was connected on both sides, which has since been dismantled and had to give way to the construction of a parking lot.

There is a GSM-R base station at the station , which supplies the tunnel and the section of the route that extends beyond Waiblingen with train radio.

Rail operations

The stop is served by the S3 line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. The trains in the direction of Waiblingen stop on track 1, on the house platform, and on track 2 in the direction of Backnang.

According to Deutsche Bahn AG, Schwaikheim station corresponds to station category 5.

Train

line route
S 3 Backnang - Winnenden - Waiblingen - Bad Cannstatt - Central Station - Schwabstraße - Vaihingen - Rohr - Airport / Messe
(booster trains in rush hour traffic between Backnang and Vaihingen).

Web links

  • Location, track systems, signals and permissible speeds of the station on the OpenRailwayMap

literature

  • Heinz Holub: The local register of Schwaikheim. Edited by Heinz Erich Walter i. A. the community of Schwaikheim. Walter-Ortsbücher-Verlag, Neckarwestheim-Liebenstein 1979.