Flieden – Gemünden railway line

Flieden-Gemünden (Main)
Route number (DB) :	3825, 3826
Course book section (DB) :	801
Route length:	56.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	160 km / h
Legend from Fulda 0.000 Lilacs 314 m to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf 3.300 Federal motorway 66 5.500 Thistle lawns (Flieden-Fuldaische Höfe) Connection curve from Schlüchtern 10.152 Elm 310 m 10.166 10.188 Kilometer jump -22 m 12,436 Ebertsberg tunnel (232 m) 13.112 Brandenstein tunnel (150 m) 16.600 Full pain 18.103 Ramholz Tunnel (389 m) 21,611 Dying fritz 372 m 22,180 Sterbfritztunnel (1092 m) 24.200 Mottgers 29.900 Altengronau North 30.456 Ziegenberg Tunnel (208 m) of wild spots 32.600 Jossa 33.250 Jossa 251 m 34.009 Ruppertsberg Tunnel (321 m) 34,462 Sinn , state border Hesse / Bavaria 36,360 Upper sense 38,353 Middle sense 200 m 43,511 Burgsinn 184 m to the high-speed line to Würzburg from high-speed line from Hanover 48.271 Rieneck Sinnberg (Abzw) 49.291 Rieneck tunnel (422 m) 50.000 sense 50.410 Rieneck 51.600 sense Würzburg – Hanover high-speed line 52.400 sense 54.300 Gemünden Zollberg (Abzw) to Aschaffenburg from Bad Kissingen 54,953 Gemünden Saale Bridge (Abzw) 55.097 Franconian Saale (162 m) 56,340 Gemünden (Main) 159 m to Waigolshausen to Würzburg Swell:

The Flieden – Gemünden railway , also known as the Fulda-Main Railway , is a double-track, electrified main line in Hesse and Bavaria . It runs from Flieden to Gemünden am Main . From 1945 to 1988 the line was part of the most important long-distance connection between northern and southern Germany in the area of ​​the Trizone and the old Federal Republic of Germany .

route

Sterbfritz station

New and old south portal of the Ramholz tunnel

North portal of the Ramholz tunnel

Trains in Jossa station

The line branches off from the Kinzig Valley Railway from Fulda at Flieden station . From here it runs through the foothills of the Spessart and Rhön , via the Elm depot and the abandoned Vollmerz train station , the Sterbfritz train station , which is operated by passenger traffic, and the abandoned Mottgers and Altengronau Nord stations, until it reaches the Sinntal near Jossa . The route then largely follows the River Sinn and partially runs parallel to the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg . There is a link with the high-speed line south of Burgsinn in the Burgsinn depot .

The 388 meter long old Ramholz tunnel (built between 1868 and 1871) has been replaced by a 474 meter long new building in recent years. The breakthrough for the new tube took place in June 2007. Since June 17, 2008, trains have been traveling south through the new Ramholz tunnel.

history

Historically, the route consists of two parts:

• The branches Flieden – Elm and Schlüchtern – Elm were created during the construction of the Frankfurt-Bebraer Railway , whose southern section is now the Kinzig Valley Railway. They were put into operation on December 15, 1868. At that time there was a hairpin at Elm station in which all through trains had to turn. This operationally complex traffic routing was used to drive over the thistle lawn , a ridge that separates the Kinzig and Fulda valleys.
• In 1873 the Fulda-Main Railway from Gemünden was connected to the head end of Elm station . Elm became a through station and the Flieden – Gemünden railway was created. However, the trains of the Frankfurt-Bebraer Bahn still had to "turn heads" here. This only changed with the opening of the Schlüchtern tunnel in 1914, which drives under the thistle lawn.

In 1906, the entire goods yard area at Elmer Bahnhof slipped over a large area as a result of geological disturbances in connection with insufficient drainage.

In the course of the Allied transport offensive, a P-47D fighter-bomber pursued a transport train of V2 warheads coming from Wildflecken in November 1944 with multiple use of weapons and finally stopped it in Elm. The explosion of the freight train caused widespread destruction, including the reception building from the early days. The structures were rebuilt in a simplified manner in the post-war period due to their increased importance. The Bw Elm was closed in 1951.

After the Second World War, the Flieden – Gemünden railway was part of the old north-south route between Hanover and Würzburg .

business

Long-distance transport

Scheduled long-distance passenger rail traffic has not existed on the Fulda-Main-Bahn since the completion of the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg in 1988, with the exception of night trains, individual intercity trains and diversion traffic. In December 2014, the Rottaler Land intercity train pair from Hamburg to Passau, which ran the route between Rieneck Sinnberg and Gemünden, was the last scheduled long-distance train to be stopped on Saturdays .

Regional traffic

Regional train in Burgsinn station

In the local rail passenger traffic , the Fulda-Main-Bahn was served by the regional train line Fulda-Gemünden (Main) until 2006 . When the timetable changed in December 2006, the line was extended south to Würzburg and, for the most part, beyond to Schweinfurt and even to Bamberg , only a few pairs of trains still ended in Gemünden (Main). At the request of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV), the starting point of the trains was moved from Fulda to Schlüchtern, where there are connections to Fulda and Frankfurt (Main). The regional trains run every two hours between Schlüchtern and Jossa, and every hour from Jossa.

The regional railways were usually made up of four n-cars , hauled by class 111 or 112 locomotives , and the slower class 143 was also used for trains ending in Gemünden (Main) .

As part of the "Electric Network Würzburg", regional rail traffic on the Fulda-Main-Bahn was put out to tender across Europe in June 2006 by the Bavarian Railway Company and the Rhein-Main Transport Association. The previous operator DB Regio won the tender and started operations with the 2010/2011 timetable change in December 2010 with new Alstom Coradia Continental vehicles .

Diversion route

If the high-speed line between the Burgsinn depot and Fulda or Würzburg is blocked , long-distance traffic will be diverted from the high-speed line to the Burgsinn depot via the Flieden – Gemünden line. Even if the Kinzig Valley Railway is blocked , long-distance traffic between Rieneck Sinnberg and Gemünden Zollberg will be diverted via the route. The route can also be used together with the Kinzigtalbahn as a diversion route for the Main-Spessart-Bahn . Since the new Spessart ramp went into operation and the pushing operation between Laufach and the former Schwarzkopf tunnel near Heigenbrücken was discontinued, heavier freight trains from the Rhine-Main area in the direction of Würzburg have increasingly been routed over the route.

Web links

Commons : Flieden – Gemünden railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Driver's cab ride from Fulda to Würzburg. 2009, accessed November 13, 2015 . 
• Episode 12: Würzburg-Schlüchtern. Privatbahn-TV, July 18, 2013, accessed on November 13, 2015 (video driver's cab ride). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Information and pictures about the tunnels on route 3825 on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de by Lothar Brill
4. ↑ Osthessen-News The new double-track "Ramholz Tunnel" costs 30 million euros - finished in June 2008 , April 11, 2007
5. ↑ Osthessen-News "Light at the end of the Ramholz tunnel" - breakthrough of the 474 meter long tube , June 6, 2007