Local railway Amstetten – Gerstetten
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| Route number : | 9470 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 758, earlier 906 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 19.93 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The local line Amstetten – Gerstetten is a 19.93 kilometer long standard gauge branch line on the Swabian Alb in Baden-Württemberg . It branches off in Amstetten , the upper end point of the Geislinger Steige , from the Filstalbahn Stuttgart – Ulm and leads to Gerstetten . The line was opened on July 1, 1906 by the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (WEG). Regular passenger traffic was given up on March 1, 1996.
Today, passenger traffic on the railway line is only operated during the summer season and only on Sundays and public holidays. As a rule, a historic Schwäbische Alb Bahn (SAB) railcar runs at the normal DB tariff , on certain days it is replaced by a steam train operated by the Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde (UEF) at a special tariff.
history
Important trade routes led through Gerstetten for centuries. When, with the Filstalbahn from Stuttgart to Ulm and the Brenzbahn from Aalen to Ulm, railway lines were created outside the town, the community experienced an economic decline in the second half of the 19th century. From 1896 onwards, a citizens' association tried hard to establish a railway connection. When private railway companies were also licensed in 1899, Gerstetten's connection to the rail network was within reach. In 1901 the first discussions took place with the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, which was only interested in a connection to the Filstalbahn in Amstetten and not in the cross-connection from Amstetten via Gerstetten to Herbrechtingen an der Brenzbahn, which the municipality of Gerstetten was planning. In 1903 a contract was finally signed for the construction and operation of the line from Gerstetten to Amstetten, which was then built from December 1904 to June 1906. The opening ceremony took place on July 1, 1906. An extension of the route to Herbrechtingen was repeatedly discussed in the following years, but was never implemented.
From 1956 a single diesel multiple unit was used on the local railway (T05).
In 1996, the elimination of subsidies forced the WEG to cease operations after 90 years. In 1997 the Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde (UEF) took over the route, on which seasonal journeys with historical railway vehicles have been taking place since 1976. After the UEF took over the route, the club gave itself a new structure. Since 1999 the indirect section of the UEF, the association UEF Lokalbahn Amstetten-Gerstetten e. V. owned the track. The association is with the associated UEF transport company both as railway companies as well as with the established in March 2019 local train operating company as a railway infrastructure company operates. All work of the association is carried out on a voluntary basis.
Today's train traffic is carried out with the steam locomotive 75 1118 or the museum railcar T06.
The freight was a financial pillar of the haul operations, the main customer was the army. In 2013, freight traffic on the route to the former Bundeswehr depot was reactivated, and the siding is operated three to six times a week. Sand, which is needed for the construction of the new Wendlingen – Ulm line , is usually transported . The takeover of the former DB transfer station in Amstetten by UEF Lokalbahn has therefore developed very positively, as the tracks can be used as a storage facility for the freight cars.
Web links
- Information about the route on the homepage of the Ulm Railway Friends
- Representation of the route on the OpenRailwayMap
- Route description on www.vergessene-bahnen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local railway operating company. UEF Lokalbahn Amstetten-Gerstetten eV, March 24, 2019, accessed on July 21, 2019 .
- ^ Story 2 , accessed June 5, 2010.
- ^ The steam train - Association news of the Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde e. V. , p. 3