Bad Kreuznach – Wallhausen railway line

Bad Kreuznach-Wallhausen
Kleinbahn train on the Holzmarkt in Bad Kreuznach, 1906
Route length:	10.9 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Maximum slope :	14  ‰
Top speed:	25 km / h
Dual track :	No
Legend 0.0 Reloading station 0.5 Bad Kreuznach freight yard until 1908: city station 1.1 Bad Kreuznach railway bridge 1.6 Bad Kreuznach town house 2.0 0.0 Bad Kreuznach wood market 0.7 Bad Kreuznach viticulture school formerly: Neumorgen 0.9 Bad Kreuznach small train station 1.5 Bad Kreuznach – Winterburg railway line 1.8 Lohrer-Mühle road crossing 3.6 Hargesheim 4.6 Roxheim stopping point until 1898 6.5 Gutenberg 8.9 Wallhausen (Kreuznach district)

The Bad Kreuznach – Wallhausen railway was a narrow-gauge railway from Bad Kreuznach to Wallhausen , which was operated from 1896 to 1936.

Technical parameters

Together with the Bad Kreuznach – Winterburg railway line branching off at the Lohrer Mühle track triangle, the line formed the network of the Kreuznacher Kleinbahnen . The track width was 750 mm, the maximum gradient 14 ‰. In Bad Kreuznach the tracks, similar to those of the Kreuznach tram , with which they crossed, lay in the subgrade. Outside the city, the route led through the Graefenbach valley .

history

The Koblenz government issued the building permit on May 1 or 10, 1895, and the line was opened on August 15, 1896. Freight traffic began on September 7, 1896.

In 1909 and again in 1921 the electrification of the line was considered, but not carried out. The economic crisis that set in during the inflationary period hit the railway hard. The operator, the West German Railway Company (WEG) since 1900 , applied in 1922 to be allowed to shut down the line , which the district president approved on June 17, 1922. The Bad Kreuznach district and the neighboring communities then paid the company subsidies to prevent it from implementing this project.

The boom in road traffic was a growing threat to the existence of the railway. The 31st July 1936 was the last day of operation of the Kreuznacher Kleinbahnen, which were shut down the following day. From then on, the traffic was ensured by four buses and a truck of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The line was dismantled immediately afterwards.

business

passenger traffic

The travel time from Bad Kreuznach to Wallhausen was about half an hour. The trains initially offered 2nd and 3rd  class , some trains also offered 4th class.

Freight transport

Freights had to be reloaded from and onto the standard-gauge state railway in the Bad Kreuznach freight yard. Standard-gauge freight wagons could be transported on the narrow-gauge railway on roller stands . The stations Bad Kreuznach, Hargesheim , Roxheim , Gutenberg and Wallhausen had goods handling .

literature

• Rudolf Brumm: The Kreiznacher Kleenbahn 1896–1936. A detailed report on the planning, construction and operation of the Kreuznacher Kleinbahnen Bad Kreuznach - Winterburg Bad Kreuznach - Wallhausen district . Bad Kreuznach 1977.
• Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 .
• Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways - Volume 1: Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . EK Verlag, Freiburg 1989, ISBN 3-88255-651-X

Remarks

1. ↑ Wolff gives meter gauge, but Brumm explains explicitly why this was discarded.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brumm: The Kreiznacher , S. 34th
2. ↑ Brumm: Die Kreiznacher , p. 27.
3. ↑ Brumm: The Kreiznacher , p. 25
4. ↑ Brumm: The Kreiznacher , S. 59th
5. ↑ ^{a b} Brumm: Die Kreiznacher , p. 61.
6. ↑ Brumm: The Kreiznacher , S. 157th
7. ↑ ^{a b} Brumm: Die Kreiznacher , p. 90.
8. ↑ Brumm: The Kreiznacher , S. 160th
9. ↑ Wolff, p. 54.
10. ↑ Brumm: The Kreiznacher , S. 184th
11. ↑ So: Brumm: Die Kreiznacher , p. 60; according to the information on p. 81f. but there were only 2nd and 3rd class cars.
12. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of December 18, 1915, No. 62. Announcement No. 819, p. 399.