Bentwisch – Poppendorf railway line

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Bentwisch-Poppendorf
Route number (DB) : 6949
Route length: 7.4 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~

The Bentwisch – Poppendorf railway connects the Rostock fertilizer plant in Poppendorf with the Bentwisch train station and thus with the Stralsund – Rostock railway .

history

Rostock S-Bahn network representation, status 1989

The history of the route is linked to the history of the Rostock fertilizer plant that is connected to it. The chemical industry was established in the early 1980s. The proximity to the Rostock overseas port , where the capacities for the handling of chemicals were created, was decisive for the choice of location . Interestingly, the plant was not built directly in the port, although the space for it was available. As is well known, the ammonium nitrate- based products produced there, among other things, can be explosive, which is why safety reasons were probably decisive for the construction of the plant away from larger residential and industrial facilities. The remote location of the plant made it necessary to build a rail link. In 1981, a large electrification program was launched in the GDR to save fuel. The new Bentwisch-Poppendorf connecting railway benefited from this. Electrical operation began on May 31, 1986, and the line is electrified with a single contact line as far as the works station . While the line was initially operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn , after 1990 it became the property of the Yara International plant .

Route

The line begins at Bentwisch station and initially runs parallel to the Stralsund – Rostock railway line and the 105 federal highway . After about two kilometers it branches off to the east, runs along near the village of Klein Kussewitz , crosses the Klein Kusswitz-Volkenshagen road on a bridge and ends at the works station. The total length of the route, calculated from Bentwisch station and excluding the tracks in the factory, is 7.4 km.

Werkbahnhof

Trains are disbanded and formed in the works station. Up to 14 tracks are next to each other here. To the east of the train station are the tracks in the plant, where loading and unloading points are reached. There is an approximately 250 m long passenger platform in the southern area of ​​the works station.

passenger traffic

From 1982 works passenger trains ran to the Poppendorf works station. These were tied S-Bahn trains of the Rostock S-Bahn . So they drove from Warnemünde via Rostock Hbf with a stop in Bentwisch to Poppendorf and back. Like all Rostock S-Bahn stations, the passenger platform in Poppendorf was dimensioned so that trains consisting of three four-part double-decker units could stop there. The trains were not public from Rostock Hbf, which was announced there by loudspeaker announcement. The trains were not included in the timetable of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Such feeder traffic, specially tailored to rush hour traffic, was common in several large companies in the GDR, e.g. B. also to the Lubmin nuclear power plant . Passenger traffic was initially retained after the fall of the Wall and ended on December 31, 1993.

Security technology

The work station and the shunting operations in the plant are controlled by a central interlocking, which is the GS III Sp68 type track diagram interlocking. Signals based on the HI signal system of the former Deutsche Reichsbahn are used.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaschka, Ralph: On the wrong track - infrastructure policy and development of the GDR using the example of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Ed .: Deutsches Museum ua, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2011, p. 267
  2. ^ Eisenbahn-Kurier Topics 47 - the DR 25 years ago 1986, EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, p. 13
  3. ↑ a b c Schultz, Lothar; Temmen, Josef: S-Bahn Rostock, VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2014, pp. 35/36
  4. ^ Lothar Schultz, Peter Wilhelm, Klaus Pfafferott: 150 years of the railroad in Rostock . Transpress, Stuttgart 2000, p. 83 .
  5. ^ Course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1987/88 (exemplary), timetable table 901
  6. ^ List of German signal boxes. In: Stellwerke.de. Retrieved March 10, 2016 .
  7. ^ Poppendorf works station (fertilizer plant). In: Ostseestrecke.de railway lines between Rostock and Rügen. Retrieved March 9, 2016 .

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