Wemmetsweiler train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station | ||
| Platform tracks | 4th | ||
| abbreviation | SWR | ||
| opening | October 15, 1879 | ||
| Conveyance | 2006 ( passenger traffic ) | ||
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| City / municipality | Merchweiler | ||
| Place / district | Wemmetsweiler | ||
| country | Saarland | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| Coordinates | 49 ° 22 '9 " N , 7 ° 4' 43" E | ||
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The Wemmetsweiler train station is a depot in Wemmetsweiler , a district of Merchweiler in Saarland . The railway junction was also a passenger station until 2006 .
history
In 1876, Wemmetsweiler became a railway station with the construction of the Fischbachtalbahn , but the ceremonial opening of the line from Saarbrücken via Brefeld and Wemmetsweiler to Neunkirchen (Saar) did not take place until October 15, 1879. After the two-track expansion of this line in 1892 and the construction of the Primstalbahn to Lebach on May 15, 1897, the Wemmetsweiler station became a railway junction .
In 1965 the lines leading past Wemmetsweiler were electrified.
Since passenger traffic on the Fischbachtalbahn had long been geared more towards Lebach than Neunkirchen, the passenger trains in Wemmetsweiler always had to change direction. To change this, a connecting curve was planned as early as the 1990s . In April 2003, the construction of the single-track connecting curve , known as the Wemmetsweiler curve , to the west of Wemmetsweiler station, began; at the same time, the section between the merging of the connecting curve with the Primstalbahn and the Illingen station was expanded to double- track and the northeastern of the two tracks was electrified. The new route was inaugurated in February 2004. As a result, the link between the two lines was relocated from Wemmetsweiler station to Illingen station.
In 2006, the newly built Wemmetsweiler Rathaus stop closer to the town center at the eastern head of the station replaced the access point of the previous station, which has no longer been used for passenger traffic since then. The platform of the stop is on the route of the previous northern track; the line is only a single track in this area. The breakpoint is often just referred to as Wemmetsweiler . Operationally, the stop is part of the Wemmetsweiler station. It is only served by the trains of the Fischbachtalbahn Homburg – Neunkirchen – Illingen (RB 74) and the few through trains Homburg – Neunkirchen – Wemmetsweiler – Saarbrücken (RB 76).
On November 30, 2009, the " ESTW Wemmetsweiler" was put into operation on the Wemmetsweiler – Lebach section .
Web links
- Course book overview from 1944
- Route 3240, tunnel portals Merchweiler Tunnel as well as pictures of the construction of the Wemmetsweiler town hall tunnel
- History of the Saarland Railways ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Status: September 2007)
- Tracks in service facilities (SWR) , DB Netz AG (PDF) Track plan
literature
- Kurt Hoppstädter : The origin of the Saarland railways (= publications of the Institute for Regional Studies of the Saarland . Volume 2 ). Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, 1961, ISSN 0018-263X .
- Kurt Harrer: Railways on the Saar. One and a half centuries of railway history between technology and politics. Alba Verlag, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-87094-210-X , (Brief traffic history)
Individual evidence
- ↑ abbreviation
- ↑ Query of the course book route 624 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 681 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 683 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ cf. the station signs on the platform
- ↑ New signal box in Wemmetsweiler went into operation. on: bahnaktuell.net , November 30, 2009