Treuchtlingen – Würzburg railway line
The Treuchtlingen – Würzburg railway line is a double-track, electrified main line in Bavaria . It leads from Treuchtlingen in southern Middle Franconia via Gunzenhausen , Ansbach , Steinach (near Rothenburg) , Marktbreit and Ochsenfurt to the Lower Franconian district capital Würzburg .
history
The route originally consisted of three shorter routes:
- The line from Ansbach to Gunzenhausen, opened on July 1, 1859,
- the line from Würzburg to Ansbach, opened on July 1, 1864
- the line from Gunzenhausen to Treuchtlingen, opened on October 2, 1869.
Since the city of Ansbach initially had no connection to the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn , it had a connecting line built as a leased line to Gunzenhausen at its own expense . The operation on this third Bavarian leased railway to Neuenmarkt - Bayreuth (1853) and Pasing - Starnberg (1854) was carried out by the Royal Bavarian Railway .
With the Railway Construction Act of 1861, the entire Treuchtlingen - Würzburg line was completed, making Ansbach a through station. When the Ingolstadt – Treuchtlingen – Gunzenhausen line was built, the gap was finally closed in 1869, with the Gunzenhausen - Treuchtlingen section being part of the northern part of the “Altmühlbahn”.
The double-track line has been electrified since March 15, 1965. In 1978, as part of a pilot project, passenger traffic was discontinued at a total of 15 stops. Busses took over the function from then on. 1993 ended the service of many railway stations in freight traffic.
On the evening of July 18, 2016, there was an attack on a regional train on the railway line between Ochsenfurt and Würzburg in which a 17-year-old Afghan refugee attacked passengers with an ax and a stabbing weapon, some of which were seriously injured. The perpetrator was shot by special forces during his escape in the Heidingsfeld district of Würzburg . The day after the crime, the terrorist organization Islamic State claimed the perpetrator through its propaganda mouthpiece Amaq and published a video on the Internet in which the perpetrator, who is named "Muhammad Riyad", threatened in Pashtun with a knife in his hand : "I am a soldier of the Islamic State and am starting a sacred operation in Germany."
In 2018, the Oberdachstetten and Uffenheim stations received new platforms in preparation for the switch to electronic interlocking technology .
Route description
The route is 140.2 kilometers long. Of the former 29 stations and stops, 15 are still served today.
There is a railway substation (substation) near the Oberdachstetten train station.
Mainland Railway Ochsenfurt
In a letter dated August 10, 1888, the mayor of Ochsenfurt, Ferdinand Sertorius, informed the Royal Ministry of State in Munich about a petition that a raft harbor should be built on the right bank of the Main below the railway bridge. The city began planning work in the summer of 1889 and, if necessary, wanted to bear the construction costs itself.
On April 24, 1890, it was decided to reject a raft port in Würzburg and to approve the rail connections to the Main in Kitzingen, Ochsenfurt, Würzburg and Marktbreit. The Chamber of Deputies in Munich provided 138,000 marks.
The first construction phase from the train station to the Main was completed by mid-October 1890. Three loading points for long timber, gravel and the shipyard have been set up. In March 1891 the first locomotives ran on the Mainland Railway. A year later, it reached its greatest extent of 2900 meters. In 1929, up to 130 truckloads of wood arrived at the port from the Franconian Forest every day .
From 1951 to 1954, the US Army carried 10,397 wagons with 110,000 tons of war material to load onto the ships. For this purpose, five tracks with a total length of 8,200 meters were laid between the railway bridge and the southern end of the line from 1950 to 1955.
In 1975 the city council decided to dismantle it for the first time due to insufficient capacity. On December 15, 2002, the Deutsche Bundesbahn finally ceased operations for economic reasons.
Nevertheless, freight traffic fell by the wayside. From autumn 2004 to summer 2008 tank wagons loaded with rapeseed oil drove to the port area to be emptied by a company there.
Mainland Railway Marktbreit
As a railway infrastructure company, the city of Marktbreit operates the Marktbreit Mainland Railway for the “Spitzwasen” industrial park. At km 1,440, the connection connects to the feeder track to the main area of the Marktbreit station and thus to the railway infrastructure of DB AG in the direction of Ochsenfurt. It is 1.11 km long. The total length of the track, including the bypass, is 1.426 km. The industrial track and the local companies are served by DB Schenker Rail. The industrial track that exists today is the remainder of a larger port railway system that led in the direction of Kitzingen to the old crane and was shut down many years ago.
Transport associations
The northern section Würzburg – Marktbreit is located in the tariff area of the Verkehrsverbund Mainfranken (VVM) founded in 2004 , from Marktbreit to Treuchtlingen the route is completely integrated into the Verkehrsverbund Greater Nuremberg (VGN).
business
The route used to be of great importance in German north-south long-distance traffic . As the 24-kilometer detour via Nuremberg was often to be avoided, the trains between Würzburg and Treuchtlingen were harnessed to a steam or diesel locomotive in front of the trains, which would otherwise be driven with electric traction. Today (2018) several pairs of Intercity Express trains from Hamburg and Bremen to Munich are on the route, but without a stop between Würzburg and Augsburg . There are also the intercity train pairs “Königssee” and “Großglockner” as well as a few weekend amplifiers, which stop in Treuchtlingen, Gunzenhausen, Ansbach and partly in Steinach.
In local traffic , the route is operated by DB Regio as part of the Würzburg E network. Class 440 multiple units run every hour , and class 425 trains in the evenings and on weekends as the Treuchtlingen – Würzburg regional line . Individual additional trains condense the offer on weekdays in the rush hour between Marktbreit and Würzburg to an almost 30-minute rhythm, on weekdays four pairs of trains are also connected via Würzburg on the Main-Spessart-Bahn to Karlstadt (Main).
The route is of great importance in freight traffic. Large parts of the freight traffic from Würzburg towards Munich and Nuremberg run over the route, the capacity of which is in some cases no longer sufficient. All types of locomotives are used, and there are also numerous private RUs represented.
With the timetable change in December 2010, the Burgbernheim-Wildbad stop was reactivated.
Winterhausen train station
The Treuchtlinger Bahnhof was technically and visually extensively renovated
Steinach station (near Rothenburg) with class 642 to Neustadt (Aisch)
A Regional Express Nuremberg – Stuttgart arrives in Ansbach
An ICE-2 double train between Wettelsheim and Treuchtlingen
Accidents
A serious train accident on the line occurred on April 30, 1987 in Ansbach, when a freight train going to Würzburg hit the flank of an express train going to Stuttgart. A total of four D-Zug cars derailed and slipped down the embankment, damaging several buildings. One person died and many others were seriously injured. The recovery of the wagons was difficult because they threatened to crash.
The cause of the accident was the disregard of the exit signal showing the stop by the engine driver of the freight train, who wrongly related the exit signal of the express train that was in motion to his train.
future
The Verkehrsclub Deutschland and the Agenda 21 public transport working group are campaigning for the reactivation of a train station in Würzburg-Heidingsfeld, which is to become the Ostbahnhof , with a connection to bus routes 16 and 33.
From 2022, Go-Ahead will take over regional traffic on the route from Würzburg to Treuchtlingen for twelve years after winning the tender. New vehicles from Siemens are to be used on the route.
literature
- Siegfried Bufe : Railway in Middle Franconia. Bufe-Fachbuchverlag, Munich 1980. ISBN 3-922138-09-8 .
- Peter Heinrich, Hans Schülke: Würzburg railway junction. EK-Verlag , Freiburg 1990. ISBN 3-88255-870-9 .
- Jörg Frank, Rolf Frank: Treuchtlingen Railway Cross. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1987. ISBN 3-922138-35-7 .
- Jörg Schäfer, Steffen Seiter: 150 years of the railway in Ansbach. Kempf-Druck, Ansbach 2009.
Web links
- Route, operating points and some permitted speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ KSO - Mainland Railway. (No longer available online.) Municipal company Stadtwerke Ochsenfurt (KSO), archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved October 23, 2013 .
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ IS accuses itself of the attack on the regional train. FAZ.net, July 19, 2016.
- ↑ ISIS shows video of the ax terrorist. July 19, 2016, accessed August 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Siegfried Sebelka: The BayWa disappears a piece of industrial history. In: infranken.de. February 9, 2017, accessed May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Pictures from Ochsenfurt. Route map of the Mainland Railway. In: bahnbilder.de. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Wood and coal, rapeseed oil and a cinema car. In: m.mainpost.de. June 16, 2016, accessed May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Pictures from Marktbreit. Route map of the Mainland Railway. In: bahnbilder.de. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Mainland Railway Marktbreit. Stadt Marktbreit, December 5, 2011, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Operating instructions for the siding. Stadt Marktbreit, February 1, 2007, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
- ^ City of Burgbernheim: reactivation of the Burgbernheim-Wildbad stop
- ↑ British train operator spreads in francs. December 24, 2018, accessed December 26, 2018 .