Railway line Breitengüßbach – Maroldsweisach

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Breitengüßbach – Maroldsweisach
Section of the Breitengüßbach – Maroldsweisach railway line
Route number (DB) : 5104
Course book section (DB) : 826
Route length: 33.8 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope : 19.2  ‰
Minimum radius : 300 m
Top speed: 60 km / h
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Bamberg
Station, station
 0.0 Breitengüßbach 248.6 m
   
 to court
   
 to Dietersdorf
Road bridge
 A 73
   
 Baunach gravel works
   
 Main (115 m)
Station, station
 3.8 Baunach 240.7 m
   
 Baunach gas storage facility
Stop, stop
 7.8 Reckendorf
Stop, stop
 10.3 Manndorf (demand stop)
Stop, stop
 13.4 Rentweinsdorf (demand stop)
   
 17.7 Ebern (since 2004) 271 m
   
 18.3 Boars (until 2004)
   
 19.6 Eyrichshof
   
 22.3 Fischbach (b Ebern)
   
 25.1 Pfarrweisach
   
 B 279
   
 27.0 Junkersdorf (b Ebern)
   
 28.3 Pfaffendorf
   
 B 303
   
 30.0 Todtenweisach
   
 32.2 Voccawind
   
 33.8 Maroldsweisach 328 m

The Breitengüßbach – Maroldsweisach line is a branch line in Bavaria that branches off the Bamberg – Hof main line . It is single-track and not electrified. The section from Ebern to Maroldsweisach was closed for passenger traffic in 1988, and freight traffic ended there on December 31, 1997. This section was then dismantled.

The route can be driven at a maximum of 60 km / h. At numerous technically unsecured level crossings, there are speed drops of up to 20 km / h.

history

Wendezug the German Federal Railways in the station boars , 1991

On April 1, 1882, the Bavarian State Parliament granted approval for the planning and construction of the local railway . On October 24, 1895, the section Breitengüßbach - Ebern was put into operation, on October 26, 1897 the extension to Maroldsweisach . The train connection was popularly known as the Maro Express . Gravel works in Maroldsweisach and Voccawind ensured extensive goods traffic with basalt gravel .

In the mid-1970s, the Deutsche Bundesbahn began to turn more connections in Ebern . At the beginning of the 1980s, only one pair of trains (concession train) ran to Maroldsweisach, as there was no decommissioning permit. On May 27, 1988, passenger traffic was stopped on the route between Ebern and Maroldsweisach. Freight traffic was carried out until November 21, 2001.

Abandoned Ebern station, 2007

In the course of the dismantling of the railway facilities, including those of the section of the line still in operation, and the downgrading of all stations to stops, the actual Ebern station was also separated from the remaining line. As a replacement, a single-track stop was built south of the original station and opened on September 13, 2004.

New stop in Ebern with diesel multiple units of the series 642 of the Deutsche Bahn , 2007
Today's end of the route in Ebern

Class 642 railcars have been running on the route since 2001 . When the timetable changed in December 2006, two to three pairs of trains ran from Monday to Friday only from / to Breitengüßbach with connections to regional trains in the direction of Bamberg or Lichtenfels, all other trains continued to run from / to Bamberg. For this purpose, a 90-minute cycle was set up on weekdays from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Since January 1, 2010, the route has been part of the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association (VGN). As a result, attractive fares created an additional argument for increased use of the route and for its preservation.

From the timetable change in December 2010, all trains - with the exception of individual early trains on weekdays - ran from / to Bamberg. During rush hour on weekdays there was an approximately 90-minute cycle. The journey time from Bamberg to Ebern was between 33 and 39 minutes. However, it was not possible to increase the cycle times because there are no signal systems on the single-track route that would allow train crossings. However, there is a siding without a platform in Baunach.

From Easter 2011 to the beginning of June 2011, all track systems between Ebern and Baunach were renewed by replacing the track bed and rails. At the same time, the PZB 90 was retrofitted. This enabled the top speed to be increased from 50 km / h to 60 km / h. The hourly service was thus implemented and since the takeover of passenger transport by agilis -Verkehrsgesellschaft on June 12, 2011, the route has been operated every day at hourly intervals.

business

Railcar of the type Regio-Shuttle from agilis in Reckendorf

passenger traffic

The route is part of the Upper Franconian diesel network tendered by the Bavarian Railway Company on February 8, 2008 , which started on June 12, 2011 with new vehicles and an improved range of operations. Since June 12, 2011, the route has also been operated every hour on weekends. The route is operated by the agilis transport company and is part of the “agilis Nord” region (Upper Franconia diesel network). Vehicles of the type Regio-Shuttle are used .

By increasing the line speed, the travel time between Ebern and Bamberg has been reduced by up to five minutes. It is now between 30 and 32 minutes. Since the timetable change in 2011, a late train has been running from Ebern to Bamberg at around 11:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and back around 1:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Freight transport

For freight transport, the gas storage facility in Baunach is served by Deutsche Bahn. Since the route is occupied by the clocked passenger trains during the day, the freight train journey usually takes place during the break in operation at night. The train from Bamberg hauled by a class 294 locomotive parks the wagons to be transported to the gas storage facility in Baunach, brings the wagons to be exchanged from the gas storage facility to Baunach and then delivers the wagons to the gas storage facility. Then the return journey to Bamberg takes place in the car that was previously parked in Baunach.

future

DB Netz AG is aiming to further increase the line speed to 80 km / h in the medium term within the next one to three years, but some unsecured level crossings / private roads in the municipality of Rentweinsdorf have prevented this project so far because some owners are adjacent to the line Plots did not want to do without rail crossings. The council of Rentweinsdorf showed great incomprehension about the fact that only every second train stops in Treinfeld (Hp Rentweinsdorf). agilis justified this with the implementation of the hourly cycle, as this would save time. Since the timetable change in December 2014, agilis has again stopped hourly in Rentweinsdorf.

The Rentweinsdorf and Manndorf stops are general demand stops that are only served on request.

The safety equipment of some level crossings with traffic lights and barriers along the railway line is to be implemented in the near future. The town council of Ebern, as well as the Rentweinsdorfer town council, approved the financial participation in securing the level crossings, which could not be realized in the course of the line renovation in 2011. The higher speed that this enables leads to shorter travel times and better connection options at Bamberg train station. Two railcars are permanently in use to implement the hourly service. Due to the travel time of 30 minutes (as of 2015) and four minutes of idle time in Ebern, the multiple unit only comes back to Bamberg station after 64 minutes. By increasing the speed to 80 km / h, the travel time is reduced to 25 minutes, which means that the vehicle would be back in Bamberg after 54 minutes and the hourly cycle with just one vehicle would be possible.

According to the concept of the Bavarian state government for more electromobility on the rails in Bavaria, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann proposed the Ebern – Bamberg route from a Bavarian perspective as a pilot project for operation with overhead line / battery hybrid vehicles.

literature

  • Kerstin Schäfer: The high-rise buildings of the Upper Franconian branch lines. History, inventory and conversion. Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-944237-05-3 .

Web links

Commons : Breitengüßbach – Maroldsweisach railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The ghost train in: Bahn Epoch No. 30, p. 84.
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Ministry for Economics, Transport and Technology: Free State of Bavaria puts out diesel train services on the rail network in northeast Bavaria ( Memento from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Press release from February 11, 2008
  3. ↑ InFranken.de: After 116 years the state railway is taking off
  4. ↑ Infranken.de: Will you be successful on the “political track”?
  5. ↑ Infranken.de: Improvements come step by step
  6. ↑ More electromobility on the rails. Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration, January 23, 2018, accessed on June 2, 2019 .