Railway line Nuremberg – Crailsheim
The Nuremberg – Crailsheim railway line is a main line in the north of the federal states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg , which connects the Nuremberg metropolitan region to Crailsheim via the central Franconian district capital Ansbach . The route with today's course book number 786 or 890.4 ( S-Bahn Nuremberg ) is of great importance in German rail traffic. In the Nuremberg – Ansbach section, it serves as a diversion route for long-distance traffic between Nuremberg and Würzburg (via Uffenheim ) or Nuremberg and Treuchtlingen (via Gunzenhausen ) and relieves the Nuremberg – Würzburg railway from some of the freight trains.
history
During the initial planning in 1862, Minister Gustav von Schlör advocated a route via Fürth and Zirndorf to Crailsheim. On May 15, 1875, the Royal Bavarian State Railways opened the Nuremberg - Ansbach section on a direct route, as the industrialist Lothar von Faber was able to arrange a tour near his factories in Stein . On June 15, 1875, the extension to Dombühl followed and on April 15, 1876, the extension across the state border to Crailsheim. Due to the steadily growing volume of traffic, the section between Nuremberg and the state border was double-tracked until 1888. On May 19, 1972, electrical operation between Nuremberg and Ansbach was started and on May 19, 1985 it was extended beyond Crailsheim to Goldshöfe .
Around 1970 the Deutsche Bundesbahn considered building a new line from Nuremberg via Crailsheim and Heidelberg in the direction of Saarland as part of preliminary planning . This new line was to bypass Ansbach to the south and pass Crailsheim to the north in the direction of Heidelberg. Ansbach and Crailsheim were to be connected to the rapid transit railway via connecting curves.
In the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 1985 , the line was part of the upgraded Nuremberg – Stuttgart line . The route should be expanded by line improvements and signal adjustments for a route speed of a maximum of 200 km / h. The project was no longer included in the 1992 Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan.
On December 12, 2010, line S4 of the expanded Nuremberg S-Bahn network between Nuremberg and Ansbach went into operation. For this purpose, all intermediate stations have been upgraded to meet the needs of the S-Bahn and are barrier-free . The additional stop "Petersaurach Nord", located between Wicklesgreuth and Heilsbronn , was opened on September 12, 2014. The S-Bahn extension to Dombühl via the Leutershausen-Wiedersbach station, which was reopened for passenger traffic , and which lost its passing track in the process, was opened in December 2017 and is served every two hours.
Route description
course
The line leaves Nuremberg main station together with the lines to Bamberg and Treuchtlingen to the west and separates from them at the point "At the ramps". After crossing the franc quick way and the connecting tracks to the former main freight yard and stockyard the route leads to the district Schweinau with gleichlautendem train station and the business park "Tilly Park" over, crossed circle line , Südwesttangente and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and reaches the lying on the Nuremberg city railway station Nürnberg-Stein , where the Bibertbahn branched off to Unternbibert - Rügland until 1986 . The route then crosses the Rednitz , passes Ober- and Unterasbach and continues between Bibert in the north and Bundesstraße 14 in the south via Roßtal and Heilsbronn to Wicklesgreuth . There, on the one hand, the branch line to Windsbach and a military connection to the base of the United States Army in Katterbach branches off. The route continues through the Lichtenau Forest to Saxony near Ansbach and from there parallel to the Franconian Rezat and from the Ansbach district of Eyb together with the railway line from Treuchtlingen to the Ansbach train station .
After the Ansbach train station, the line to Würzburg branches off to the northwest, whereas the line to Crailsheim turns to the southwest to run from Leutershausen - Wiedersbach along the southern edge of the Frankenhöhe . At Eichholz the route bends to the northwest in order to bypass the trunk and, after a left bend, leads between it and the Klosterberg through to the former Dombühl junction station. This was the starting point of the routes to Rothenburg and Steinach and is still the same for the route to Nördlingen , on which freight traffic and museum trips only took place until December 31, 2018 . In the following course the route runs under the federal highways 7 and 6 , crosses the state border of Bavaria / Baden-Württemberg after Schnelldorf station and meets the Crailsheim – Königshofen railway line at Beuerlbach , with which it ends at Crailsheim station .
State of development
The line is double-tracked and electrified. The permissible speed is up to 160 km / h. In regional and S-Bahn traffic, only 80 km / h are driven between Roßtal-Wegbrücke and Roßtal due to a track change. In addition to the endpoints, the Nuremberg-Stein , Roßtal , Wicklesgreuth , Ansbach and Dombühl train stations are equipped with overtaking tracks.
Train stations
The renovated goods shed at the former train station in Ellrichshausen was one of the five winners of the Peter Haag Prize in 1989 . The shed built by Georg von Morlok in 1874 now houses a private automobile museum.
Transport associations
The Nuremberg - Schnelldorf section is integrated into the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association (VGN) as the R7 regional train line.
Trains
In long-distance traffic, Intercity trains operate on the Nuremberg - Stuttgart - Karlsruhe route . The use of double-decker intercity (IC2) for this line, originally announced for December 2017, was delayed until the end of 2018. Since then, new Bombardier 147.5 locomotives have been used on the IC2 route, with customers experiencing significant disruptions. Software problems on the new trains were named as the cause. At the same time, DB described the new double-decker Intercity (IC 2) as a stable part of the long-distance fleet in its integrated interim report 2019.
In regional transport, Go Ahead Verkehrsgesellschaft took over the regional express services Nuremberg - Crailsheim - Stuttgart in December 2019 . In the course of the 2019/2020 timetable year, new multiple units of the Stadler Flirt type will replace the push-pull trains previously used , which consisted of class 111 or 143 electric locomotives and double-decker cars . In order to be able to offer more capacity, the n-cars ("Silberlinge") used before were replaced by double-deck cars with high entry at the beginning of 2017 . The trains running between Nuremberg and Dombühl suburban trains of the S-Bahn Nuremberg associate with trains of series 442 (Bombardier Talent 2).
On the Stuttgart – Nuremberg route, the 01 180 drove the last regular steam locomotive-hauled express trains from Nuremberg in autumn 1967. After that, the steam locomotive maintenance at the Nuremberg main station was abandoned and all locomotives of the 01 series were collected at the "old man's seat" in Hof , where the last until 1973, however, were used in Upper Franconia .
S-Bahn extension Ansbach - Dombühl (- Crailsheim)
On October 7, 2009, the Bavarian Ministry of Transport and Deutsche Bahn signed the planning agreement to extend the S4 from Ansbach to Dombühl. The completion of the approximately five million euro project, which included the adaptation of the line and safety systems and the restart of the Leutershausen-Wiedersbach stop , was originally planned for December 2013, but was delayed until the end of 2017.
The two-hour S-Bahn extension beyond Ansbach to Dombühl was taken into account in the transport contract for the Nuremberg S-Bahn for the period from December 2017 to December 2029, which was announced at the end of 2013. An agreement was only reached in June 2016 to expand the infrastructure for the 23 km extension. The Free State of Bavaria is assuming 2.2 million euros of the costs of 5.5 million euros and also contributes to the planning costs. Construction work began on March 23, 2017 with a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony. The two-hour extension of the S-Bahn covers a volume of 170,000 train kilometers per year.
On April 12, 2018, the Economic Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament accepted an application to examine the extension of the S-Bahn to Crailsheim . The state government of Baden-Württemberg is also campaigning for an extension. For the implementation of the project, the Schnelldorf and Crailsheim train stations would probably have to be expanded and rebuilt so that they are barrier-free , additional vehicles have to be ordered and further adjustments to the route and in the train stations are necessary.
According to the statements of an expert report that became known in May 2020, the extension of the S-Bahn to Crailsheim is possible and the two-hour extension of the previous S-Bahn line is recommended. This expansion, in combination with the Regional Express trains, which also run every two hours, would provide hourly service to all remaining stations between Ansbach and Crailsheim. The study was originally commissioned by the two federal states, the neighboring districts and the transport association for the greater Nuremberg area. The financing is now to be clarified.
Web links
- Route, operating points and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
- Route description KBS 786 and KBS 890.4 on local traffic Franconia (private)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Peter Ramsenthaler: Local Railway Nuremberg – Unternbibert – Rügland: From the Franconian metropolis to Rangau. H-und-L-Publ.-Souvenirs-Verlag Bleiweis, Schweinfurt 1996, ISBN 3-928786-48-2 , p. 2
- ↑ Ortschronik Zirndorf
- ^ Hans-Martin Heuschele: A train station under the main train station . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 202 , August 27, 1970, pp. 17 .
- ^ Wilhelm Linkerhägner: Bundesverkehrswegeplanung '85 . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 66 , no. 10 , 1990, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 933-936 .
- ^ Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Rails of the future in Baden-Württemberg . Memorandum of the working group of the chambers of industry and commerce in Baden-Württemberg. Mannheim December 1986, p. 56 .
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn : Ansbach - Dombühl construction project ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 26, 2017
- ↑ New timetable: Extension of the S4 to Dombühl. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017 ; accessed on December 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Ulrich Gräf: The Peter Haag Prize 1989 - Private Monument Preservers awarded . In: Swabian homeland . No. 1 , 1990, p. 29-34 .
- ↑ Alexander Ikrat: The Stuttgart – Zurich line is being connected again . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 31 , February 7, 2014, p. 20 (similar version online ).
- ↑ Norbert Acker: Rail: IC trains are even less punctual than the national average. In: swp.de. Südwest Presse , May 26, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2020 : "The number of train cancellations on the IC Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Nuremberg route is higher than the national average for long-distance journeys"
- ^ Christian Schlesiger: Deutsche Bahn: IC-2 double-decker trains from Bombardier have software problems. In: Wirtschaftswoche . May 24, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2020 : "The on-board electronics of six new Intercity-2 trains sometimes shut down unplanned."
- ↑ The IC2 are the stable part of the long-distance fleet. In: dmm Mobility Manager. July 25, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Bahnbetriebswerke in northeast Bavaria before the end of steam operations in 1973 and 1974. In: traktionswandel.de. Retrieved September 8, 2015 .
- ^ Germany-Munich: Public rail transport / public rail transport . Document 2014 / S 001-000619 of January 2, 2014 in the supplement to the Electronic Official Journal of the European Union
- ↑ S-Bahn: Let's go west . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . August 6, 2016, p. 14 .
- ↑ Symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the S-Bahn extension Ansbach - Dombühl. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, March 23, 2017, accessed March 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Martin Stümpfig: Economic Committee votes unanimously to consider the extension of the S-Bahn to Crailsheim. April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Positive signals for elongation. In: focus.de. May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
- ^ First cross-border S-Bahn between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg, May 29, 2020, accessed on June 5, 2020 .
