Friedberg – Hanau railway line
The Friedberg – Hanau railway line is a 32.2-kilometer, double-track , electrified main railway line in Hesse . It connects the two medium- sized towns Friedberg (Hessen) and Hanau via Nidderau .
The route is integrated into the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) as route book route 633 and is run there as route 49.
history
The railway line was approved by law of June 11, 1873 and opened by the Prussian State Railways in two construction phases: the first section from Hanau to Heldenbergen - Windecken (today: Nidderau ) on December 1, 1879 and the second from Heldenbergen-Windecken to Friedberg station (Hessen) for goods traffic on September 15, 1881 and for passenger traffic on October 15, 1881.
During the construction of the Nidder Bridge north of today's Nidderau train station, vaults collapsed twice: one worker died on September 18, 1879, and eight workers died in the second incident on November 8, 1879.
meaning
The importance of the route lies primarily in freight traffic. It forms part of the main Ruhr area - Bavaria via the Ruhr-Sieg route , the Dill route , from Gießen to Friedberg via the Main-Weser-Bahn and on from Hanau via the Main-Spessart-Bahn .
In the event of operational disruptions or construction work that occasionally occurs due to the high utilization of the Main-Weser Railway between Friedberg and Frankfurt, the route is used as a diversion route.
Operation and vehicle use
In passenger traffic, it is only used by regional trains operated by DB Regio Mitte (initially DB Regio Hessen ). As the approval of the Talent 2 multiple units was delayed from 2011 to 2013, push-pull trains with three n-wagons and a class 143 locomotive were initially used as rolling stock . From around January 2013, mostly class 425 railcars from the inventory of the Mittelhessen-Express were used. The new Talent 2 multiple units have been running on the Gießen – Friedberg – Hanau route since March 9, 2013. Alternating with the 425 series until mid-November 2013, only the new Talent 2 trains have been in use since December 2013.
With the 2012/2013 timetable change in December 2012, weekend and holiday traffic was resumed for the first time and the journeys with the Friedberg – Gießen route were connected to form a continuous route 33. From the end of the 1990s to mid-December 2012, the line was served by the Hessian State Railroad , Butzbach location. Thus, only the diesel railcar came despite catenary GTW 2/6 is used, then in 2012 on behalf of DB Regio and with private DB staff.
On February 5, 2017, between Friedberg and Nidderau, there was a high voltage flashover from the overhead line to the line's electronic systems, whereupon the electronic signal box in Friedberg was put out of action for several days. The signal box itself could be repaired within a few days. However, since the repairs to the systems along the route covered here took longer, a replacement bus service was set up in the section between Friedberg and Nidderau by mid-March .
literature
- Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , ed. from the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, vol. 2.2, p. 605ff (route 040), ISBN 3-8062-1917-6
- Dieter Eckert: Freight trains shaped the image of the railways. 135 years of the Friedberg – Hanau railway: part of a main through line. In: Hessische Heimat 5, 2006, pp. 17-20
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Query of the course book route 633 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Collection of Laws for the Royal Prussian States , 1873, p. 305 (No. 22)
- ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 138f (No. 69).
- ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, pp. 144f (No. 16).
- ^ Klaus-Dieter Raack: Serious accidents in railway construction . In: Oberhessische Vertriebsbetriebe AG (OVAG) (Ed.): Connection to the wide world: On the changeful development of the railway in Oberhessen , Friedberg 2014 (2015), ISBN 978-3-9815015-5-1 , p. 168.
- ↑ RMV: Mittelhessen-Express - tender brings new vehicles. DB Regio Hessen GmbH wins Europe-wide tender from RMV and NVV ( 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. . Press release dated May 26, 2009, accessed May 26, 2009
- ↑ Hamster cheek comes later ( 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. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , accessed on November 28, 2012
- ↑ Information from RMV about the start of operations. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013 ; Retrieved March 8, 2013 .
- ^ NN: HLB multiple units with DB staff . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 1 (2012), p. 6
