Mannheim-Waldhof – Mannheim-Sandhofen railway line

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 6 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 36 ″  E

Mannheim-Waldhof-Mannheim-Sandhofen
Route number (DB) :	9404
Course book range :	formerly 245a (1922)
Route length:	3.87 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Mannheim Hbf 0.00 Mannheim-Waldhof 1.40 colony 0.00 Mannheim-Waldhof Gbf to Frankfurt am Main Stadium Connection to SCA Hygiene-Papier GmbH to the old Rhine 2.80 cellulose to the old Rhine 3.40 Mannheim-Sandhofen 3.87 Sandhofen Swell:

The Mannheim-Waldhof – Mannheim-Sandhofen railway is a branch line in Baden-Württemberg . It branches in the station Mannheim-Waldhof from the Ried Railway and leads to the city of Mannheim for Mannheim-Sandhofen . Since the end of travel in 1922, the route has been used for freight traffic.

history

Reception of Grand Duchess Luise von Baden on July 17, 1900 at Sandhofen train station. Also in the picture: the Grand Duchess' saloon car

The line was built by Waldhof-Sandhofen AG , a 99% subsidiary of Papierwerke Waldhof (PWA). The railway company was based in the reception building of Sandhofen station.

The line went into operation in 1900, for both freight and passenger traffic. In the last peace timetable in 1914, 15 pairs of passenger trains ran here every day, all from and to Mannheim-Neckarstadt station . In 1910, Sandhofen was incorporated into Mannheim. As a result, the Mannheim tram was extended to this point and put into operation on May 16, 1922. The final stop was in front of the station building. As a result, passenger traffic on the route was stopped on December 1, 1922, freight traffic only after the Second World War .

The line is now operated as a connecting railway. This connection of the paper manufacturer Essity (formerly Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg or SCA Hygiene Products ) comprises around four kilometers of track. Around 8,300 wagons are delivered annually, around 450 of them with chemicals. In mid-2003 the MVV subsidiary ConTrain took over the shunting service from the Waldhof railway company.

Route description

Immediately at the Mannheim-Waldhof freight yard, the route, which initially runs to the southwest, crosses Sonderburger Strasse before it crosses under the B 44 (Frankenthaler Strasse) parallel to Boehringerstrasse. Then it swings to the northwest and follows the northern edge of the paper mill premises in an arc until it reaches Sandhofer Straße on the Altrhein. This she followed in a northerly direction to Sandhofen train station in the area of ​​today's tram end loop.

The reception building of the station was not finished at the opening. Its task was initially performed by a wooden temporary structure. The station building was later a two-storey, heavily structured historicist building, the basement of which was made of quarry stone and the upper floor of half-timbered . It was demolished in 1964. In 2008, a nursing home was built by Avendi on the station premises .

Waldhof railway company

The railway company Waldhof (GmbH, formerly Public Company; short BGW) was an in rail freight operating railway transport companies from Mannheim founded and was built in 1900's. Since 1997, BGW has been transporting household waste to the incineration plant in Krefeld on behalf of the Hildesheim district , thereby driving the first freight train in competition with Deutsche Bahn AG. Later she drove lime trains for BASF, among other things .

literature

• Kursbureau des Reichs-Postamts (Hrsg.): Reichs-Kursbuch . Overview of the rail, post and steamship connections in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland as well as the more important connections of the rest of Europe and the steamship connections with non-European countries. Berlin 1914, p. Table 245a (reprinted 1974).
• Wolfgang Löckel: Mannheim, here Mannheim. Highlights from the history of rail transport in the city of squares . Ludwigshafen 2008, ISBN 978-3-934845-40-4 .
• Gerd Wolff, Hans-Dieter Menges: German small and private railways. Volume 2: Bathing . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-653-6 , p. 162-167 .

Web links

• Mannheim-Waldhof-Mannheim-Sandhofen on forget-bahnen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2009/2010 . 7th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
3. ↑ Löckel, p. 187.
4. ↑ Reichs Kursbuch , Table 245a.
5. ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of December 2, 1922, No. 72. News: Timetable matters , p. 826.
6. ↑ Löckel, p. 206.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Waldhof Railway Company before the end. In: eurailpress.de. DVV Media Group GmbH, February 26, 2003, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Löckel, p. 187
9. ^ Image " Alter Bahnhof " in conjunction with aerial photos 1929