Weidenthal train station

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Weidenthal train station
Northern end of the station, in the background the Gipp tunnel
Northern end of the station, in the background the Gipp tunnel
Data
Operating point type railway station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation RWD
IBNR 8006261
Price range 5
opening August 25, 1849
Architectural data
Architectural style Late classicism
location
City / municipality Weidenthal
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 24 '52 "  N , 8 ° 0' 11"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '52 "  N , 8 ° 0' 11"  E
Railway lines

Mannheim – Saarbrücken (62.6 and 63.4 respectively)

Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The three-track Weidenthal station is on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line , which essentially emerged from the Palatinate Ludwigshafen – Bexbach railway . It was opened on August 25, 1849, when the full length of the Ludwig Railway was put into operation. Its reception building is a listed building.

When the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn started operating in 2003 , the facilities previously used for passenger traffic were abandoned and new ones opened in the northern area of ​​the station. This is in the network area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 111.

location

The station is located on the south-eastern edge of the Weidenthal settlement . It has three tracks and is 800 meters long. The former reception building and the former platforms are at the level of Bahnhofstraße . The current traffic station is around 800 meters further north in Sense Valley. The main line from Mannheim to Saarbrücken runs in the area of ​​the station from southeast to west-northwest. Bundesstrasse 39 and the Hochspeyerbach run almost parallel to the tracks . Immediately north of the train station is the Gipp tunnel . The former station building is at route kilometer 63.4, the stop for passenger trains at 62.6.

history

Originally, the location was supposed to be at the height of the Sense Valley before the choice fell on a location further south. The continuous opening of the route through difficult terrain finally took place on August 25, 1849. On the newly opened section, Weidenthal train station was one of two intermediate stations alongside Lambrecht . At the beginning of the 20th century, like all other stations in the Palatinate, the station received platform closures. During this time, the station was managed by the Neustadt a Hardt Operations and Building Inspectorate and was part of the responsibility of the Lambrecht railway maintenance office .

In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution, on April 1, 1937, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz directorate. A year later employed at the station railway workers were the carried out in the course of France, to 1924 permanent director operation reported. Then they returned.

The German Federal Railroad (DB), which was responsible for rail operations from 1949, incorporated the station into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , which allocated all the railway lines within the newly created federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate . In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz directorate in the early 1970s, its counterpart in Karlsruhe was responsible for the train station with effect from June 1, 1971. At the same time, the platform barriers were lifted. In the course of the planning of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn, it was planned to integrate the route initially to Kaiserslautern and later to Homburg into this local transport system. Since the passenger transport facilities were located far away from the town center, new platforms were built in the northern area of ​​the station in 1998 and opened at the end of 2003 with the opening of the S-Bahn to Kaiserslautern.

traffic

passenger traffic

In 1865 three pairs of trains ran on the Worms – Neunkirchen route. In 1884, local trains ran primarily on the Neunkirchen - Worms route . In addition, there were trains that only ran on sections such as Neustadt – Kaiserslautern and Kaiserslautern – Worms. Some did not stop at all the stations on the way, and Weidenthal was not approached by all local trains.

The trains on the Alsenz Valley Railway ran on the Bad Münster –Neustadt route in the summer of 1914 , made heads at Hochspeyer station and also stopped in Frankenstein. During the First World War and the interwar period, local transport was largely limited to the Neustadt – Kaiserslautern route. In the middle of the Second World War, most of the local trains only ran on partial sections along the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway. In a westerly direction they usually reached a maximum of Homburg. In the post-war period, traffic was again largely restricted to the Neustadt – Kaiserslautern section. From 1991 trains operated on the Trier - Offenburg route , which stopped east of Kaiserslautern everywhere and thus also in Weidenthal. A few years later, trains on the Homburg – Neckarelz – Osterburken or – Heilbronn route were added. From 2001, the trains that had previously run to Offenburg ran mostly exclusively to Karlsruhe .

Passenger train connections in the 2015 timetable
Train type Route Clock frequency
S 1 Homburg (Saar) - Kaiserslautern - Hochspeyer - Frankenstein (Palatinate) - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden) - Osterburken Hourly
S 2 Kaiserslautern - Hochspeyer - Frankenstein (Pfalz) - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden) Hourly

Freight transport

Like all stations along the former Ludwigsbahn, the station had a goods handling facility . The local quarry, with its own sidings, was an important freight customer. Were at it grindstones and millstones produced and shipped. In 1871 the normal freight trains on the Ludwigsbahn stopped at the station on the Kaiserslautern – Mainz, Homburg – Frankenthal routes. Ludwigshafen – Neunkirchen, Worms – Homburg between three and five minutes. There was also a stone train on the Kaiserslautern – Ludwigshafen route, which stayed at the station for a total of 15 minutes. In the service book for the staff there was the following remark: "Steinzug 41 has to take the stone wagons loaded at the Katharinenwoog with it in the following way: The machine drives from Frankenstein station on the south track after the break and brings the loaded wagons on the same track to Frankenstein station, to join them to the stone train. If passenger train 6 has not met the Steinzug on the line, the former has to stop in front of the Weidenthal quarry until Steinzug has left. ”Coal trains stayed at the station for between three and four minutes.

From the 1980s, transfer trains served the station, which at that time no longer formed a separate freight tariff point. It was operated from the Neustadt main station , which it served as a satellite. Currently is of Weidenthal from the siding of the neighboring Neidenfels based fine paper mill Glatz served.

Structure and track systems

Former reception building of the Weidenthal train station; in the foreground the underpass

The former station building is a late classicist plastered building that was built in 1848 and 1849. It was expanded in 1896. There is a memorial stone on the station forecourt dedicated to the Wittelsbach house . It consists of an iron plate and was erected in 1880. Both structures are under monument protection. The station itself was previously controlled by a push button interlocking from Siemens without automatic turnout, which is now out of order.

The station itself currently (2013) has three tracks, of which the middle one acts as a passing track. In this way, it represents one of a total of three options for train overtaking between Neustadt and Kaiserslautern. The two outer tracks - designated as tracks 1 and 2 - have an outside platform. At the south-eastern end there is also the non-electrified side track 4. Freight traffic facilities are no longer available. The maximum permitted speed through the station is 90 kilometers per hour in both directions.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Weidenthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science. Volume 53). New edition. pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .

Individual evidence

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