Tuttlingen – Hattingen railway line
| Tuttlingen – Hattingen (Baden) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 4661 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 740 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 8.220 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | D4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 120 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Tuttlingen – Hattingen railway is an electrified main line in southern Baden-Württemberg that runs entirely in the Tuttlingen district. The connecting curve, opened on May 15, 1934, leads from the Tuttlingen junction to the Hattingen (Baden) branch station on the Black Forest Railway , which is now just a depot with no tourist traffic.
history
The track was originally two tracks and was developed as part of the job creation program of the Nazis to reduce unemployment It allowed trains from June 1, 1933. Stuttgart area for railway junction singing to shorten the path to six kilometers, and especially the time-consuming change of direction in the station Immendingen to avoid.
Baden was reluctant to build the line. In 1927, Immendingen and other municipalities also petitioned the Baden state parliament against its construction. They feared u. a., the Black Forest Railway can be " stamped as a branch line ". After the Second World War, the French occupying forces dismantled the second track as a reparation payment , and in 1977 the Deutsche Bundesbahn electrified the line.
The German Bahn AG expects the route today, along with the route between Stuttgart and Tuttlingen and Hattingen singing section of the Black Forest Railway , to Gäubahn . It operates the connection in long-distance traffic once an hour with an Intercity and in local traffic every two hours with a regional express .
Web links
- Location, course as well as speeds and signals of the route on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Events in 1934 at hs-merseburg.de, accessed on November 30, 2018
- ↑ Railway expansion from 1934 on rottweil.net, accessed on November 30, 2018
- ^ Albert Kuntzemüller : The Baden railways . 1840-1940. Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg 1940, p. 131 .
- ^ A b Albert Kuntzemüller : The Baden Railways . 2nd Edition. G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1953, p. 183, 259 .