Stuttgart Hafen – Stuttgart Ost railway line

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 21.5 "  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 21.7"  E

Stuttgart Harbor – Stuttgart East
Route number (DB) :	4723
Route length:	2.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Legend Port railway 2.2 Stuttgart harbor Port railway (connection to quay E ) to Stuttgart-Untertürkheim Port railway (connection tank farm) Harbor railway bridge over the Neckar (219 m) Connection quay A Uferstrasse ( Bundesstrasse 10 ) Hedelfingen track Stuttgart light rail Connection to the wholesale market 4.3 Stuttgart East (formerly Stuttgart-Wangen ) Connection of the SSB track construction yard to Stuttgart-Untertürkheim (until 1985) to Stuttgart-Gaisburg

The Stuttgart Hafen – Stuttgart Ost railway line is a freight line in the Stuttgart districts of Obertürkheim , Untertürkheim and Wangen . The standard-gauge , single-track and non-electrified line is operated by DB Netz AG and connects the freight stations in Stuttgart Hafen and Stuttgart Ost , which was formerly known as Stuttgart-Wangen. It thus links the Stuttgart-Untertürkheim – Stuttgart Hafen railway with the Stuttgart-Untertürkheim – Stuttgart-Gaisburg railway . The line covered here went into operation in 1968, that is ten years after the neighboring Stuttgart port railway and the feeder line from Untertürkheim. The largest engineering structure on the route is the port railway bridge over the Neckar , it is 219 meters long. Since the closure of the neighboring Stuttgart-Untertürkheim-Stuttgart Ost section in 1985, the Stuttgart Hafen – Stuttgart Ost railway line has been the only connection between the numerous sidings to the left of the Neckar and the rest of the German rail network.

In 2019, Deutsche Bahn put the route out to tender because it could not operate the infrastructure economically. Annual income from the use of the facility of around 12,000 euros would be offset by annual costs for maintaining the route of around 277,000 euros. Investments of 3.8 million euros are required over the next few years.

Web links

• Route overview on hafenstuttgart.de
• Location, course as well as some signals and permissible speeds of the route on the OpenRailwayMap

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Hafenbahnbrücke on structurae.de
2. ↑ Route 4723 Stuttgart-Ost (including) - Stuttgart-Hafen (excluding). (PDF) Call for applications from July 26, 2019 to October 29, 2019. In: fahrweg.dbnetze.com. DB Netz, 2019, accessed on 23 August 2019 .