Railway line Wernau – Schnaitwald junction
| Wernau branch point Schnaitwald | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 2.023 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 40 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Wernau – Schnaitwald junction was a 2.023 kilometer long railway line in what is now Baden-Württemberg . As a connecting curve, it connected the Wernau (Neckar) station on the Plochingen – Tübingen railway line with the Schnaitwald junction on the Filstalbahn . The single-track electrified main line made it possible to travel directly from Tübingen to Ulm or vice versa without changing the direction of travel at Plochingen station .
The connecting curve built shortly before the end of World War II was intended to enable a bypass in the event of extensive destruction of the railways in the greater Stuttgart area. It was opened on February 15, 1945 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . After it was hardly used, it was abandoned again in 1946 and then dismantled. In addition to the bridge over the Fils, there were two other engineering structures: a bridge over the Filskanal and a dirt road overpass.
The Schnaitwald junction was originally just a block , but after the line under consideration was closed, it was downgraded to one. In the 1970s, sparked German Federal Railways , the operating agency Schnaitwald altogether.
literature
- Andreas M. Räntzsch: Stuttgart and its railways. The development of the railway system in the Stuttgart area . Uwe Siedentop, Heidenheim 1987, ISBN 3-925887-03-2 , p. 322 .
- Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg : Extension of the station facilities in Plochingen. In it: Construction of the connecting railway Wernau – Schnaitwald junction, 1944–1947.