Greifswald – Lubmin railway line
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 Class 202 in the Lubmin factory station, 1995
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| Route number (DB) : | 6326 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 196 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 24.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | CM 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 80 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Greifswald – Lubmin railway is a single-track branch line between the district town of Greifswald and the seaside resort of Lubmin . From 1969 it served primarily as a connecting line for the Lubmin nuclear power plant, which was shut down in 1995 . Passenger traffic was discontinued on May 30, 1999, today there is still freight traffic to the port of Vierow and sporadically to the interim storage facility north .
history
The construction of the Lubmin nuclear power plant from 1968 onwards made it necessary to build a railway connection to it. In the years from 1967 to 1969, the single-track connection was therefore built, which, in addition to the power station's work station (later Lubmin passenger station ), also connected the place itself. At the Greifswald station, the facilities were expanded and a separate platform was built for the Lubmin Railway. The line initially runs from Greifswald on the tracks of the main Berlin – Stralsund line and branches off this five kilometers south at Schönwalde. From there it goes almost 20 kilometers to the northeast, the former stops at Seebad Lubmin, Lubmin ZBE and Lubmin Werkbahnhof follow at intervals of about one to two kilometers each. Further stops on the way were not set up, but a siding to the nuclear power plant.
After goods traffic was started on September 28, 1969, passenger traffic followed on May 31, 1970. Diesel locomotives of the 110 series with double-decker trains were primarily used . At shift change times, trains consisted of three five-part so-called double-decker articulated trains and two locomotives in between, which had a capacity of 1500 to 1600 seats. The connection was served by up to nine pairs of trains daily.
After the fall of the Wall , the number of employees in the power plant fell. In 1990 the first reactors were shut down and the entire power plant shut down in 1995. Since the traffic decreased accordingly - the increasing motorization was added - the operating frequency fell to four to six pairs of trains per day. The last locomotives used were class 202 (former DR class 110) and 232 locomotives with mostly three Halberstadt wagons attached .
In view of the low number of passengers, Deutsche Bahn ceased passenger traffic on May 30, 1999. On December 31, 2000, the infrastructure of the line from the Schönwalde junction to the Lubmin plant was handed over to Energiewerke Nord GmbH . The connection to the interim storage facility north on the site of the former nuclear power plant still exists and is rarely used for Castor transports .
In 2006, concrete planning began for the siding of the port of Lubmin, which was newly built in 2004 and went into operation in 2006 . In 2009 the port tracks and new facilities were put into operation via the existing connection to the nuclear power plant. Structural changes and new construction of the track systems also took place on the site of the NPP.
On February 15, 2009, the funding approval for the siding of the port of Vierow was granted. As a result, a 1½ kilometer long siding was built from the line in a northerly direction to the port from June 2011. In addition to the rail infrastructure, the funding amount of 4.7 million euros also included other expansions. In mid-June 2012, the new siding was served by a freight train for the first time.
literature
- Dieter Grusenick, Erich Morlok, Horst Regling: The Angermünde-Stralsund Railway including branch lines . transpress, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71095-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Conditions for the use of the railway infrastructure Greifswald Schönwalde – Lubmin Werksbahnhof of Energiewerke Nord GmbH (EWN). (PDF; 256 kB) (No longer available online.) May 21, 2013, archived from the original on April 26, 2016 ; Retrieved April 26, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ 4.7 million euros for port Vierow - Schlotmann: new track connection . Press release on regierung-mv.de. February 15, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
- ↑ Start of construction for the siding of the port of Vierow . Message on zughalt.de. June 13, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ^ Andreas Görs: First freight train reaches the port of Vierow. June 15, 2012, Retrieved June 16, 2012 .
