Heimbach – Baumholder railway line
| Heimbach (Nahe) - Baumholder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 3200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 680; 271a (formerly) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 9.080 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | D4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 19 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 (points: 190) m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 50 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Heimbach (Nahe) –Baumholder railway line, opened in 1912, is used for freight and military transport and, since December 14, 2014, has also been used again for passenger transport.
history
As early as 1897, permission to build a Heimbach - Baumholder small railway was granted. In 1902, however, the preparatory work was stopped. In 1908 a Prussian law for the construction of a railway was passed. The line was opened on December 15, 1912. For the winter timetable 1922/23, the (old) 2nd class was no longer available on all trains. They only led the 3rd and 4th grade. After the construction of the military training area from 1937 to 1938, the line experienced an upswing, in particular the track systems in Baumholder station were expanded. Passenger traffic was discontinued on May 31, 1981. Since then, the bus has been running (today route 322 in the Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund (RNN)). There was no public transport at the weekend.
The Rhineland-Palatinate Day 2007 was an exception . On this occasion, passenger trains ran from June 29, 2007 to July 1, 2007 for the first time since 1981.
The infrastructure between the junction from the Nahe Valley Railway and the Baumholder terminus was acquired in 2006 by the Baumholder community from the previous owner DB Netz . Both the purchase price of EUR 310,000 and investments of around EUR 1.5 million were taken over by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . The main users of the route, the US Army and the German Armed Forces , covered the annual operating cost deficit of around EUR 100,000 in a ratio of 80:20. Since December 10, 2006, the association has commissioned RP-Eisenbahn to manage operations as a railway infrastructure company ; the railway company is usually DB Cargo .
The responsible administration union rail transport Rheinland-Pfalz Süd (ZSPNV South) had decided at its meeting on December 10th 2008, the route to the timetable change to reactivate 2014/2015 on 14 December 2014 the passenger traffic and also the breakpoints in Heimbach place Ruschberg again put into operation. All platforms are 140 meters long, 55 centimeters high and three to five meters wide.
At the end of February 2012, the ZSPNV Süd awarded the planned transports to the Regentalbahn as part of the tender for the "Southwest Diesel Network" . The trains are driven by its subsidiary vlexx , which initially only set up replacement bus services due to internal problems.
business
Since February 23, 2015, the RB 34 line has been running between Baumholder and Idar-Oberstein every hour, and during rush hour to Kirn. In addition to passenger and military traffic, timber is occasionally handled in Baumholder. In April 2016, building material for a tunnel construction site in Heimbach was loaded.
Baumholder station has a head ramp and a side ramp, and there are three head ramps in the separate US Army station. Due to the high number of tracks, there are many shunting options.
The train operator in Mulda, Saxony, monitors the route in train control . The switches in the station can either be controlled from the signal box in Baumholder , or they are set with the aid of push buttons next to the tracks in EOW operation .
vehicles
The T 9 , G 8 and G 10 locomotives were initially used on the Prussian branch line . Later steam locomotives of the series 50 and 52 , before passenger trains 38 and 23 . This was followed by rail buses 795 and 798 for passenger transport. After 1975, the military trains were mainly driven with class 218 and 211/212 diesel locomotives . The BR 232 and 294 have been in use since 2010 . From 2013, DB Cargo switched from 232 to 294 . Current freight locomotives are a Saarbrücken-based class 77 from DB Cargo France (Euro Cargo Rail) and a class 294 from DB Cargo based in Neunkirchen . Since the resumption of passenger transport in February 2015, diesel multiple units of the type Alstom Coradia LINT 54 and 81 of the transport company vlexx have been in use.
Web links
- Images of the tunnel portals
- Heimbach (Nahe) –Baumholder: Information from the operator RP-Eisenbahn
Individual evidence
- ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of December 2, 1922, No. 72. Announcement No. 1380, p. 825.
- ^ Rhein-Zeitung of December 29, 2006
- ^ "European Private Railways '07", DVV Media Group, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-7771-0365-5 , p. 295
- ^ ZSPNV Süd: Baumholder - Heimbach rail line will be reactivated in December 2014 ( Memento from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Route data Heimbach (Nahe) - Baumholder. In: rp-eisenbahn.de. October 2014, accessed January 27, 2020 .
- ↑ spnv-sued.de. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 22, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ vlexx is working flat out on improvements ( Memento from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Information from Vlexx, accessed on December 17, 2014
- ↑ Lok-Magazin, edition 9/2015, p. 19
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 11.3 " N , 7 ° 16 ′ 24.6" E