Railway line Laupheim West – Schwendi

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Laupheim West – Schwendi
Railway line between Laupheim West and Laupheim City
Railway line between Laupheim West and Laupheim City
Route number (DB) : 4510
Course book section (DB) : 751
Route length: 16.02 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope : 17 
Minimum radius : 200 m
Route - straight ahead
from Ulm Hbf
Station, station
0.000 Laupheim West 501  m
   
to Friedrichshafen city
   
Connecting curve from Laupheim curve south
Blockstelle, Awanst, Anst etc.
0.221 Laupheim curve east
Bridge over watercourse (small)
Rottum
   
2.320 Laupheim City (until 1983)
   
2.474 Laupheim City (since 1999, stopping point until 2011)
   
5.270 Bronnen (b Laupheim) 522  m
   
8.110 Castles 503  m
   
9.710 Red (b Laupheim) 508  m
   
12.200 Orsenhausen-Bussmannshausen 513  m
   
14.050 Großschafhausen- Wain 523  m
   
16.020 Schwendi 524  m

The Laupheim West – Schwendi line is a single-track branch line in Baden-Württemberg . The route today only partially in service branches at the station Laupheim West from the railway line Ulm-Friedrichshafen and led to Schwendi . The steam trains that used to run on the route to Schwendi were colloquially called "Rottalmolle" after the river Rot .

history

The line was opened on May 17, 1904 by the Royal Württemberg State Railways .

In 1963 seven pairs of trains ran Monday to Friday on the entire route, plus another seven pairs of trains between Laupheim West and Laupheim. On Sundays, only rail buses operated as replacement rail services .

On the Laupheim Stadt – Schwendi section, passenger traffic was shut down on May 23, 1971 and freight traffic on September 28, 1984; then the tracks were dismantled.

The section Laupheim West – Laupheim City, on which passenger traffic had been carried out until May 27, 1983, was reactivated on May 30, 1999. Continuous connections are offered from the north, regional trains run every hour to and from Ulm .

From June 2009 to June 2011, the so-called Südkurve Laupheim, a new connecting curve to the Südbahn was built in order to be able to offer continuous trains from the direction of Biberach an der Riss . It went into operation on June 12, 2011. The Laupheim Stadt stop was expanded into a train station with two tracks. Freight traffic took place until 2012.

The route to the Laupheim Stadt train station has been electrified since spring 2018 as part of the “South Railway Electrification” project. The overhead line is scheduled to go into operation in 2021.

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literature

  • Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 245-249 .

Web links

Commons : Laupheim West – Schwendi railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Oliver Schumacher: Press release - Ceremonial opening of the new Laupheim Stadt– (Südkurve) –Biberach (Riss) line on June 11, 2011. (No longer available online.) DB Mobility Logistics AG, June 8, 2011, archived from the original on June 6 , 2011 June 2011 ; Retrieved December 19, 2016 .