Darmstadt – Worms railway line

Darmstadt – Worms
Route number (DB) :	3541 (Darmstadt – Goddelau) 4010 (Goddelau – Biblis) 3570 (Biblis – Worms)
Course book section (DB) :	655
Route length:	43.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	Goddelau – Worms and Darmstadt Hbf - mountain lane: 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Dual track :	Goddelau – Worms
Legend from Bensheim 61.6 Darmstadt Central Station to Aschaffenburg to Frankfurt from / to Aschaffenburg from Frankfurt 58,591 Darmstadt mountain lane ( Abzw ) to Groß-Gerau 55.6 Pallaswiese (to Darmstadt Hbf) various connecting lines Darmstadt-Griesheim Röhm Federal motorway 5 Federal highway 67 51.6 Griesheim 47.7 Wolf throats from Groß-Gerau 45.7 Riedstadt-Goddelau 89  m 42.7 Stockstadt (Rhine) 39.6 Biebesheim Connection route from Gernsheim harbor 36.4 Gernsheim 31.5 Gross Rohrheim Connection of Biblis nuclear power plant 28.1 10.0 Biblis 92  m to Bürstadt Weschnitz from Bürstadt 5.613 Hofheim (Ried) formerly from Weinheim Original route until 1900 Land dam ( Abzw ) Rosengarten station (1869–1900) 3.366 Regional border middle / southwest 2.566 Rhine bridge ,   state border Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate Worms port railway 2,318 Worms Bridge (until 2015) from Mainz 1,100 Worms confluence (Bft) formerly from Gundheim Worms Gbf (Bft) 0.064106 Worms Hbf (tracks 8 and 9; MEG km 0.000) to Monsheim to Grünstadt to Ludwigshafen Swell:

The Darmstadt – Worms railway line was formerly a continuous, standard-gauge railway line in southern Hesse through the Hessian Ried and is therefore also known as the Ried Railway .

The section between Darmstadt and Riedstadt-Goddelau is largely closed today, the section to Biblis is today, as part of the Mannheim – Frankfurt railway line, of great importance for long-distance passenger and freight rail transport , while the last section to Worms has local rail passenger transport and rail freight transport.

history

→ Main article : "History" in the article Mannheim – Frankfurt am Main railway line

The Riedbahn was built by the Hessian Ludwigsbahn from Darmstadt to the Rosengarten station opposite Worms on the Rhine in order to connect the city from there to the state capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse via the Worms – Rosengarten trajectory .

service

Darmstadt - Riedstadt-Goddelau

On the largely disused section between Darmstadt main station and Riedstadt-Goddelau is still up to the industrial area of Weiterstadt - Riedbahn a siding , which sporadically from freight transport is used.

Riedstadt-Goddelau - Biblis

On the middle section between Ried City Goddelau and Biblis in the run -distance passenger transport almost all intercity express - and Intercity trains between the railway junction Frankfurt am Main in the north (with the stations Frankfurt (Main) Hbf , Frankfurt (Main) south and Frankfurt Airport ) and the railway junction Mannheim Hbf in the south.

In addition, there is only one local rail passenger line , the Regional Express RE 70 from Frankfurt (Main) Hbf via Groß Gerau-Dornberg, Riedstadt-Goddelau, Biblis, Lampertheim to Mannheim Hbf.

Biblis - Worms

The southern section is served exclusively by local rail transport, namely by the regional train lines RB 62 from Biblis to Worms Hauptbahnhof, as well as the RB 63 coming from Bensheim and Bürstadt from Hofheim (Ried) to Worms Hbf (see also Nibelungenbahn ).

Around five freight trains, 13 regional trains with electric multiple units, 56 with diesel multiple units and two regional express trains run on the route every day.

Operating points

Worms main station

→ Main article : Worms Hauptbahnhof

Worms Hauptbahnhof is the most important station on the Nibelungen Railway. As the most important intermediate station on the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line and the starting point for the routes to Alzey / Bingen , Biblis and Bensheim, the station is an important railway junction . The main train station used to be the starting point for routes to Viernheim / Weinheim , Grünstadt and Gundheim .

Worms Bridge

→ Main article : Worms bridge station

The Worms Bridge stop was one of the last three train stations in Worms , along with the main train station and the Pfeddersheim train station. Originally, it was created because of the commuter traffic to the port of Worms and the industrial area surrounding it. The service at the stop was discontinued on December 14, 2014 due to insufficient passenger numbers.

rose Garden

→ Main article : Rosengarten station

From 1869 to 1900, the Rosengarten station was the end point of the Ried and Nibelungen Railway on the Worms – Rosengarten trajectory , as the Rhine bridge was not yet completed.

Hofheim (Ried)

The Hofheim (Ried) Bahnhof is the station of Lampertheimer hamlet Hofheim . In the station, the lines to Biblis (Riedbahn) and Bensheim (Nibelungenbahn) branch out.

Biblis

→ Main article : Biblis train station

In Biblis station, the line meets the Riedbahn from Mannheim . There is a connecting railway to the Biblis nuclear power plant .

Griesheim

The station in Griesheim was renamed in 1934 from "Griesheim b Darmst" to "Griesheim (b Darmst)".

Web links

• Walter Kuhl: The Riedbahn from Darmstadt to Goddelau

literature

• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 351 ff . (Route 020).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2009/2010 . 7th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
3. ↑ Tobias Vogel: Noise abatement program on federal railways: Line 3570 - Hofheim section from km 4.8 to km 5.8, Appendix 3-3 “Numbers of trains”. (PDF; 48.8 KiB) (No longer available online.) Modus Consult on behalf of DB Netz AG, April 27, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 1, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of January 20, 1934, No. 5. Announcement No. 39, p. 17; in: Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 . on the other hand only “Griesheim”.