Rostock – Rostock Seaport North railway line

Rostock / Kavelstorf – Rostock North Seaport
Route number (DB) :	6443 (Rostock – Rostock sea port north) 6448 (Kavelstorf – Rostock sea port)
Course book section (DB) :	183 (Rostock – Rostock Seaport North)
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	100 km / h
Legend 9.2 Rostock North Seaport Connections to the port Connections u. a. to the Hinrichsdorf industrial park A 19 7.2 Rostock seaport railway depot 6.3 Rostock Toitenwinkel 4.8 Rostock Hinrichsdorfer Strasse Connection to the Rostock tram 4.4 Rostock seaport 3.1 Rostock Dierkow 2.9 / 11.4 Rostock South Seaport to Stralsund Riekdahl from Stralsund 0.0 / 6.0 Ab or Cassebohm / Neuroggentin to Rostock Rostock – Ticino from Rostock A 20 0.0 Kavelstorf to Neustrelitz

The Rostock-Rostock Seehafen Nord railway opens up since the early 1960s, the then newly built seaport (later seaport) on Breitling in the northeastern city of Rostock . The extensive facilities of the Rostock Seehafen train station , one of the most important freight hubs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, are located on it . A single-track electrified main line , the Kavelstorf – Rostock Seehafen railway line , connects the port station to the Lloydbahn in the direction of Berlin .

history

Rostock Seehafen train station at the beginning of the port's works tracks (1982)

Not least as a result of the division of Germany, the importance of Rostock as a sea transshipment point increased considerably in the 1950s. The old Rostock city port with its port railway was no longer able to cope with the handling volumes. A new overseas port was built in the northeast of the city on the banks of the Breitling and inaugurated in 1960. The construction of a railway connection there was declared to be the central youth object "Hafenbahn". 1958/59 a makeshift track on Rostock was initially Dierkow down to the harbor area and was built as a result today's route, which west of Bentwisch from the Stralsund-Rostock railway branches. On April 30, 1960, the first construction phase of the port and the port railway went into operation.

Rostock Seehafen station, in the marshalling yard (1986)

In the following years the facilities were gradually expanded and one of the largest marshalling yards in the GDR was built with (1987) 240 kilometers of track. In 1963 the connecting curve in the direction of Bentwisch went into operation. Since May 31, 1964, there has been a direct connection in the direction of Kavelstorf on the line to Berlin that was reopened a few years earlier. The construction of the route was difficult due to the topographical conditions. The embankment reached a height of up to 24 meters above the level of the surrounding area. 1.5 million cubic meters of earth were moved and around 150,000 cubic meters of peatland removed.

Electric train operations began on November 23, 1985. In 1989 a record result was achieved with 20 million tons of cargo transhipped in the seaport. 95% of them were transported by train.

After reunification, a large part of the previous freight transport services was shifted to the road. Nevertheless, the Seehafen railway station remained of great importance for freight traffic as well as a train formation station. Various railway companies use the systems for rail freight transport . In the years 2005–2007 a large part of the tracks was renewed. In 2007, about 20 percent of the seaport's transport volume was handled by rail.

The route to Kavelstorf is to be prepared for higher axle loads from 2022 and the maximum permissible speed increased from 80 to 120 km / h.

passenger traffic

Rostock North Seaport Station (2011)

A provisional platform for rush hour traffic was built as early as 1959, which was replaced in 1969 by the new Überseehafen Nord station (called Seehafen Nord since 1983). In 1968/69 seven pairs of trains ran to the main station on weekdays, six on Saturdays and five on Sundays. With the growth of the new residential areas in the northwest of the city, the offer was gradually expanded. In 1989 there were 16 pairs of trains a day, three of them only Monday to Friday. Since 1988, the connection to the seaport has officially been part of the Rostock S-Bahn , which has existed since 1975, but almost all trains have been connected since the line to Warnemünde was established .

The two intermediate stops, Rostock Überseehafen Mitte and Süd, were renamed Rostock- Toitenwinkel and Dierkow West in the early 1970s , although the latter closed a few years later. In 1983 another Dierkow stop was opened, a little east of the previous stop, followed by Hinrichsdorfer Straße in 1988 and Kassebohm in 1990 on the section shared with the Stralsund route.

In the 1990s, the offer was gradually synchronized, previous gaps in the offer lasting several hours were closed in the morning, but on the other hand, amplifier trains in rush hour traffic were canceled. There was thus an almost hourly service. In 2002 the trains to Warnemünde were not connected due to the lower demand. Since then, diesel multiple units have operated as an S-Bahn between the main train station and the northern seaport. Officially, the reason for using these vehicles was also given that a continuation in the seaport directly to the terminal of the Scandinavian ferries was planned. But that never happened.

A curiosity was the railway depot stop, which was not listed in the public timetable documents. The S-Bahn stopped there until the shutdown if necessary for the workers in the plant.

Originally, as part of the reorganization and expansion of the Rostock S-Bahn, the new S4 line from Rostock Seehafen Nord via Rostock Hbf to Warnemünde was supposed to run from December 2012 . In spring 2012 it became known that the Ministry for Energy, Infrastructure and State Development Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had canceled the local rail passenger transport to the Rostock seaport with the timetable change in 2012 as part of massive savings in this area. The Rostock city administration objected to this, and they spoke out in favor of an extension of the S-Bahn to the ferry terminal in the overseas port . This was again rejected by the ministry. So it remained with the cancellation, and on December 8, 2012 the last S-Bahn ran to the seaport.

In addition to the S-Bahn, there was sporadic traffic with motorail trains (regular traffic) to the Seehafen Nord station (including the AZ 1472 in the direction of Sassnitz ferry port).

There was never scheduled passenger traffic between Kavelstorf and Rostock seaport, but in individual cases passenger trains were diverted between Kavelstorf and Rostock seaport south.

Route

The single-track, electrified connection from the line from Berlin to Rostock branches off in Kavelstorf and runs northwards. This line is laid out from Kavelstorf to the Rostock Seehafen Süd junction so that there is space for a double-track expansion. The valley of the Kösterbeck is crossed on a high, single-track bridge, then the Rostock – Ticino railway line is crossed. In the cut, the route runs on the eastern edge of Rostock- Brinckmansdorf and crosses the Stralsund route west of Bentwisch. The Imes company had a siding in Kavelstorf.

The tracks from Rostock to the seaport originally branched off at the Cassebohm junction (out of town from today's Kassebohm stop) on the Rostock – Stralsund railway line and ran several kilometers next to the Stralsund track. Today the branch was moved further in the direction of Bentwisch. Trains from Schwerin can reach the route to Stralsund or the port directly via a connecting curve between Dalwitzhof and the Warnowbrücke junction without having to pass Rostock main station.

The tracks from Rostock and Kavelstorf and a connection from Stralsund come together at the Rostock Seehafen Süd junction. The extensive facilities of the Rostock Seehafen train station begin, stretching over seven kilometers to the northwest. With the exception of the Bäderstraße to Graal-Müritz, there is no path between the federal highway 105 and the port area that crosses the station area and the adjacent motorway.

The track of the former S-Bahn line runs on the southwestern edge of the station facilities, a bit away from the Dierkow and Toitenwinkel prefabricated housing estates that were built in the 1980s. The S-Bahn stops Dierkow, Hinrichsdorfer Straße, Toitenwinkel and Seehafen Nord are part of the Seehafen station. The actual harbor area begins at the northwest end of the route, which was fenced off in GDR times and not accessible to the public. The end of the route is Rostock Seehafen Nord with two platform tracks, only one of which was recently used. The tracks to the connections in the port branch off beforehand. The longest siding with a length of five kilometers leads east to the Hinrichsdorf industrial park .

literature

• Lothar Schultz, Peter Wilhelm, Klaus Pfafferott: 150 years of the railways in Rostock . transpress 2000, ISBN 3-613-71124-9 .
• Lothar Schultz: 130 years of the Rostock Railway . German Model Railway Association of the GDR, 1980.
• Heinrich Horstmann. Hartmut Schwarz: The Rostock seaport and its port railway . Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, 2002, ISBN 3-933254-32-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Schultz, Wilhelm, Pfafferott, pp. 102-107
2. ↑ Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945-1993, Railway in the GDR . GeraMond, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 , p. 61 .
3. ↑ Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945-1993, Railway in the GDR . GeraMond, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 , p. 72 .
4. ^ From the south , in: Berliner Zeitung, June 16, 1964, page 3.
5. ↑ Free ride to the overseas port , in: Neues Deutschland, May 31, 1964
6. ↑ Horstmann and Schwarz
7. ^ North German News, December 13, 2007
8. ↑ Selected information on construction work in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2017. (PDF) DB Netz AG, March 29, 2017, accessed on August 30, 2020 . 
9. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, Kursbuch 1987/88 and Kursbuch 1988/89
10. ↑ Schlotmann is also canceling Rostock. (No longer available online.) In: Warnow Kurier. April 5, 2012, archived from the original on October 13, 2013 ; Retrieved April 5, 2012 .