Erlangen-Bruck – Herzogenaurach railway line
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| Route number : | 5916 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 821, 414e (1963) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 8.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | Erlangen-Bruck– Abzw large power station: 15 kV, 16 2/3 Hz ~ |
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The Erlangen-Bruck – Herzogenaurach railway was a branch line in Bavaria . It ran between the Erlangen district of Bruck and Herzogenaurach and branched off the main line from Nuremberg to Bamberg south of the Erlangen-Bruck train station . It is also known as the Aurachtalbahn .
history
The line was opened on April 16, 1894. It was single-track and was electrified after the opening of the large power plant in 1967 between the branch from the main line to the connection , the rest of the line was not electrified. The superstructure was significantly reinforced for the coal trains to the power plant. All passenger trains ran to and from Erlangen train station. Directly behind the stop board in Herzogenaurach train station, the line merged into the Adidas AG siding. In 1945 the Regnitz Bridge was blown up by German troops, and after five months a makeshift crossing was made. A new bridge was only built in 1950.
For the construction of Autobahn 3, a ceiling construction station was built in Frauenaurach in 1961/62, to which the building materials were delivered and prepared for construction. That brought a considerable amount of additional freight. After the work was completed, the facilities were dismantled. In 1971 a siding was built from Frauenaurach to the Main-Danube Canal . The train traffic was dense: in 1963 there were 14 pairs of trains. On September 28, 1984, passenger traffic was discontinued, with special trains still running on the route at times (special school trains for the Herzogenaurach grammar school and special trains for excursions in the city). Freight traffic between Frauenaurach and Herzogenaurach was ended on September 25, 1994, and the section was closed on May 28, 1995.
Freight trains are currently running from Erlangen to the Erlangen Landing , and the trains have to change direction at the Frauenaurach station. These freight trains from Frauenaurach the 2.43 kilometers long track at the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal to Müllumladeanlage at the border Erlangen along. The other connections to the industrial area there have been closed. The shovel at the garbage reloading system is carried out using a cable pull.
outlook
As part of the planned City-Umland-Bahn Erlangen (StUB) between the city of Erlangen and the districts of Erlangen-Höchstadt and Forchheim , a tram based on the Karlsruhe model could run on parts of this route . According to the previous plans, however, this only affects the section between Herzogenaurach and Frauenaurach. Since the StUB is not supposed to merge into the main route in Bruck, different route variants over the Erlangen districts of Geisberg and Büchenbach are included in the zoning plan.
literature
- Günther Klebes: The manatee - secondary railway Erlangen – Graefenberg and local railway Erlangen – Herzogenaurach . Freiburg 1978. ISBN 3-88255-852-0
- Günther Klebes: Erlangen Local Railway = Bruck - Herzogenaurach . Schweinfurt 1994. ISBN 3-928786-27-X
- Gotthard Lohmaier: Discarded: The history of a railway line . Nuremberg 1991. ISBN 3-924523-11-8
photos
In the Bruck district of Erlangen, 2010
Bridge over the Regnitz in Bruck, 2010
Bridge over the Regnitz in Bruck, 2010
On the left the junction in the Erlangen district of Frauenaurach to the port of Erlangen, 2007
Cable shunting system at the port of Erlangen, 2007
Frauenaurach station, 2007
Historic trains and locomotives at the disused Kriegenbrunn station, December 2010
Herzogenaurach train station, 1984
Goods shed at the former Herzogenaurach train station, 2007
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Mrugalla: The DB and the motorway construction . In: railway magazine . No. 3 , 2020, p. 50 .
- ↑ City of Erlangen: Land use plan 2003 with legend ( memento of the original from January 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file, 5 MB)
