Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg railway line
The Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg line is a double-track, electrified main line in Bavaria , the largest part of which goes back to the historic Ludwigs-Süd-Nord-Bahn from Lindau to Hof . It leads from Treuchtlingen via Pleinfeld and Roth to Nuremberg .
The route is part of a national main connection from Munich to Nuremberg. Even after the opening of the high-speed line from Nuremberg via Ingolstadt to Munich, it is still important in long-distance traffic. It also serves as a diversion route in the event of disruptions on the new Nuremberg – Ingolstadt section. Parallel to it on the same route runs between Nuremberg and Roth, the railway line used by the S-Bahn from Nuremberg to Roth .
As part of the starter package of Digital Rail Germany, the route is to be equipped primarily with digital interlockings and ETCS .
history
The first plans for a railway line from Augsburg to Nuremberg came up shortly after the opening of the first railway line in Germany, Nuremberg – Fürth in 1835. At that time, merchants from the Augsburg area founded a stock corporation for the construction and operation of a line from Augsburg via Donauwörth and Treuchtlingen to Nuremberg. A few years later, however, King Ludwig I announced the construction of a state railway, and the AG had to recognize due to the difficult geological conditions between Donauwörth and Treuchtlingen (Franconian Alb) that an economical construction and operation of a railway line was not possible there society reopened in 1841.
As a result, the Bavarian state government avoided the problem of the Franconian Alb with the routing of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn over the Nördlinger Ries . Only the Augsburg – Donauwörth and Pleinfeld – Nuremberg sections are therefore part of the south-north line, the construction of which the Bavarian State Parliament decided on August 25, 1843. The Treuchtlingen – Pleinfeld section was built in connection with the construction of the Altmühlbahn and opened on October 2, 1869. The gap between Donauwörth and Treuchtlingen was closed relatively late and opened to traffic on October 1, 1906, after the now further developed steam locomotives promised more economical operation.
On October 1, 1898, the overpass between Nuremberg-Eibach and Nuremberg-Reichelsdorf was opened, which from then on enabled freight trains to be routed to the marshalling yard at no level . Construction work to electrify the line began in 1933 and was completed on May 10, 1935. For this purpose, a substation was built north of Treuchtlingen near the former Grönhart stop.
With the groundbreaking on June 29, 1994, the new construction of the independent S-Bahn line Nürnberg Hbf – Roth began , which was officially opened on June 9, 2001.
Between 2004 and 2006, the overhead contact line, most of which was from 1935, was renewed while the line was still in operation.
Opening dates
- April 1, 1849 (Nuremberg – Schwabach)
- October 1, 1849 (Schwabach – Pleinfeld)
- October 2, 1869 (Treuchtlingen – Pleinfeld)
outlook
The route is to be equipped with digital interlockings and ETCS by 2030 as part of the “starter package” of Digital Rail Germany , as part of the TEN core network corridor Scandinavia-Mediterranean .
Route description
course
The line leaves the Nuremberg main station together with the lines to Crailsheim , Bamberg and Würzburg to the west and crosses this and the Frankenschnellweg at the point “An den Rampen” in a long left curve. Past the districts Sandreuth, Schweinau and Werderau the route crosses before crossing the Südwesttangente and the Main-Danube Canal , the Circle Line , which has at this point an extensive crossing and Einfädelungssystem, and reaches the flying junction between former stations Eibach and Reichelsdorf .
The function of the flyover in Eibach is to thread the tracks coming from the ring line in the direction of Fürth main station and Nuremberg marshalling yard into the line to Augsburg without crossing and at the same time to establish the connection to the port of Nuremberg. The tracks in this section are as follows (in north-south direction): on the right the track Augsburg – Nürnberg Hbf, in the middle the tracks Nürnberg Hbf / Rbf –Augsburg and on the left the track Augsburg - Nürnberg Rbf (with the connection to the port). After the overpass structure, the tracks are as follows (in north-south direction): on the right the track Nürnberg Hbf / Rbf - Augsburg, in the middle the track Augsburg - Nürnberg Hbf and on the left the track Augsburg - Nürnberg Rbf. This means that the section between Nuremberg Central Station and Nuremberg-Reichelsdorf is one of the few in the Deutsche Bahn network that is used in left-hand traffic.
The route runs after flying junction at the Nuremberg districts Reichelsdorf , Reichelsdorfer Keller and Katzwang and to the Schwabacher districts Limbach and forest settlement over, crossed while the Rednitz and Schwabach and finally reaches the station of Schwabach . Then the route makes a turn to the left and runs from Rednitzhembach parallel to Rednitz via Roth to Georgensgmünd and from there parallel to Bundesstraße 2 and the Swabian Rezat to Pleinfeld . In Roth, the branch line, also known as the “Gredl Railway”, branches off to Hilpoltstein , from Georgensgmünd there was a branch line to Spalt until 1997 and from Pleinfeld you can take the Lake District Railway to reach the Franconian Lake District and continue to Gunzenhausen . The route continues past the baroque town of Ellingen and the town of Weißenburg , which emerged from a Roman settlement . The Swabian Rezat is crossed north of Weißenburg. Shortly before the Treuchtlingen railway junction , where the lines from Würzburg and Ingolstadt meet, the line crosses the Karlsgraben at Graben and bridges the Altmühl .
State of development
The line is double-tracked and electrified. The single- and double-track S-Bahn line Nuremberg – Roth runs parallel between Nuremberg main station and Roth . In addition, left-hand traffic is used between Nuremberg main train station and Reichelsdorf to enable the circular railway to thread easily.
The first Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (1973) envisaged, as one of eight expansion projects, an expansion line between Würzburg and Augsburg via Nuremberg. As part of the upgraded Würzburg – Augsburg line, the line was also included in its update, the coordinated investment program for federal transport routes from 1977 and in the urgent requirement of the 1985 federal transport route plan.
At the beginning of the 1980s, consideration was given to building a 21-kilometer replacement route between Roth and Fischbach near Nuremberg (through the Lorenzer Reichswald ) in order to create capacity for three S-Bahn and three local trains per hour on the existing route between Nuremberg and Roth. The Federal Minister of Transport commissioned the Federal Railroad to examine this variant as well as a four-track expansion of the existing line section.
Transport associations
The route is as regional train line R6 or R64 from Nuremberg to Otting-Weilheim in the transport association for Greater Nuremberg (VGN).
Transport offer
In long-distance passenger traveled intercity express - and Intercity trains the route.
Former stringing and rides
In local transport, the northern section from Nuremberg to Treuchtlingen is served hourly by Regional Express trains, which continue every two hours alternately via Ingolstadt to Munich or Augsburg. These services are usually served by class 111 electric locomotives and five double-decker cars. Since December 2006, sets from Modus cars have also been used. Furthermore, the Nuremberg – Treuchtlingen section is condensed to an almost half-hourly service on weekdays by an hourly Regional Express line. These trains ran with class 143 locomotives and n-cars . There is also an additional regional express line south of Treuchtlingen, which compresses the existing two-hour service to an hourly service. This relation is now again usually served by push-pull trains, hauled by the 111 series, after the line was briefly switched to the 425 series electric multiple units in 2006 .
Up to the end of 2009, locomotive-hauled trains, class 111 and 110 locomotives with n-wagons and double-decker wagons were on the road. Individual class 425 multiple units were also in use.
At the end of 2009, the new class 440 multiple units were to be used, although some of them were later delivered to the DB Regio Allgäu-Schwaben. A few other vehicles that should have already been in use and were delivered had several technical malfunctions in winter 2009/10.
Due to the malfunctions on the vehicles, locomotive hauled trains with double-deck cars were used again. Class 110 and 111 locomotives were still in use with replacement trains. The slow acceleration of the locomotives resulted in slight delays because the timetables were tailored to the new class 440 multiple units.
Today's rides and vehicles
Since the timetable change on December 10, 2006, there has been a direct connection between Nuremberg and Lindau and Nuremberg-Oberstdorf under the name " Allgäu-Franken-Express " on which diesel multiple units of the 612 series are used, as the section between Augsburg and Lindau or Oberstdorf is not electrified. The three pairs of trains stop occasionally in Treuchtlingen and Donauwörth and thus, after the withdrawal of many Intercity Express and Intercity trains from this route, provide a fast connection from Augsburg to the long-distance traffic hub Nuremberg.
The railway is an important north-south connection for freight and long-distance traffic. There are stops for long-distance traffic in Augsburg, Donauwörth, Treuchtlingen and Nuremberg.
literature
- Siegfried Bufe: Railway in Middle Franconia . Bufe-Fachbuchverlag, Munich 1980. ISBN 3-922138-09-8 .
- Leonhard Bergsteiner: Railway in the Altmühltal . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1989. ISBN 3-9800952-7-4 .
- Bernd Eisenschink and Jürgen Hörstel: Railways in Southern Germany . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1990. ISBN 3-280-01897-8 .
- Andreas Dollinger: A gap in the system - 100 years of the Treuchtlingen - Donauwörth railway line . In: LOK magazine . Issue 1, 2007. Geramond-Verlag Munich.
- Jörg and Rolf Frank: Treuchtlingen Railway Cross . Bufe-Fachbuchverlag, Egglham 1989. ISBN 3-922138-35-7 .
- Ernst Erhart: Railway junction Augsburg: hub of rail traffic . Geramond-Verlag, Munich 2000. ISBN 3-932785-23-1 .
Web links
- Route, operating points and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
- Route description for local traffic Franconia (private)
- Description of the Treuchtlingen – Donauwörth railway line, copy from 1906
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Map of the Federal Railway Directorate Nuremberg 1985
- ↑ Bavaria gets the first digital interlocking on a main line in Germany. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, June 10, 2019, accessed on June 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Digital Rail Germany #####. (PDF) The future of the railroad. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, September 2019, p. 10 f. , accessed on May 2, 2020 .
- ^ Rüdiger Block: On New Paths. The new lines of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier Special: High-speed traffic . No. 21, 1991, excluding ISSN, pp. 30-35.
- ^ Wilhelm Linkerhägner: New and expanded lines of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . In: Jahrbuch des Eisenbahnwesens , 1977, pp. 78–85.
- ^ Rüdiger Block: ICE racetrack: the new lines . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier Special: High-speed traffic . No. 21, 1991, excluding ISSN, pp. 36-45.
- ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, Bundesbahndirektion Nürnberg (ed.): S-Bahn Nürnberg. Information 1. Twelve-page leporello , Nuremberg, approx. 1981.