Railway line Zeulenroda and Bf – Zeulenroda above Bf
Map with all coordinates: | Zeulenroda und Bf – Zeulenroda above Bf | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Location of the previous route on a 2018 city map
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| Route number : | 6654; sä. ZZo | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 547 (1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 3,659 km | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | CM4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 25 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 200 m | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway line Zeulenroda unt Bf – Zeulenroda ob Bf (also called Stadtbahn Zeulenroda ) was a branch line in Thuringia , which was originally built and operated by the Royal Saxon State Railways . She tied the lying on a plateau town of Zeulenroda to the Triebestal running railway Werdau-Weida-Mehltheuer on.
history
When the Weida – Mehltheuer line was built in the 1870s, the city of Zeulenroda had hoped for a direct rail connection. Ultimately, this line was laid in the valley of the Triebes, although the city of Zeulenroda had contributed 500,000 marks to the construction of the railway. This was justified with an unfavorable topographical route and additional costs of 400,000 marks. On November 15, 1883, the Weida Altstadt – Mehlteuer section was opened. This gave Zeulenroda a train station, but it was about three kilometers away from the city center, over 66 meters deeper in the Triebestal. In numerous petitions to the Russian and Saxon governments, the city of Zeulenroda later attempted to build a branch line up to the city.
In 1909 the first preparatory work for the construction of the line began. Saxony, however, expected the city of Zeulenroda to assume all the costs, which it was unable to do. Ultimately, it was agreed to provide the necessary land free of charge and to pay 255,000 marks. The Saxon state took over the remaining construction costs in the amount of 588,000 marks. In return, the Kgl. Saxon. State Railways proposed special, higher tariffs for the transport of goods on the city route.
On June 11, 1911, the State Treaty between the Kingdom of Saxony and the Principality of Reuss Younger Line for the construction of the line was ratified. Construction work began two years later, on June 16, 1913, and was completed after a year. Except for the viaduct in the Triebestal, no major engineering structures were necessary. The line was opened on September 1, 1914, as the First World War had just broken out, there was no ceremonial commissioning. When it opened, the line was given an abbreviation for a railway line that is common in Saxony, for Z eulenroda unt Bf - Z eulenroda o b Bf it was ZZo .
| Course book range | Period |
|---|---|
| 144 e | 1939 |
| 172 e | 1940/41, 1944, 1948 |
| 171 e | 1946 |
| 172 b | 1954 |
| 546.1 | 1991 |
| 547 | 1996 |
In the first timetable, twelve pairs of passenger trains commuted on the light rail, the travel time was 14 minutes uphill, however, as elsewhere, traffic was significantly restricted during the course of the First World War. In 1919, only six pairs of trains ran. In 1938 again eleven trains ran daily in each direction. Downhill the journey time was nine minutes back then, uphill ten.
After the Second World War , there were only two pairs of trains a day, and only one on the weekend. From the end of the 1950s the number had increased to six pairs of trains, and this number remained constant in the following years.
After the change in traction , the shortest journey time was only nine minutes. Due to damage to the superstructure, the travel time soon grew to 14 minutes. Initially, the year 1972 was set for the change of mode of transport in passenger traffic, but passenger traffic, which was finally handled with ten pairs of trains, was not stopped until September 29, 1974. From then on, VEB Kraftverkehr took over the transport of travelers from the train station to the city. However, the route remained important in freight traffic. In 1982, goods handled in the upper station amounted to an impressive 105,049 tons.
Since after the political change in 1989/90 the bus connection to the city was no longer guaranteed by the responsible bus company, the Deutsche Reichsbahn resumed travel on 23 September 1991.
After 1989/90, freight traffic largely collapsed. The Zeulenroda station was served by only one freight train a day, which started in Gera. Most recently, only one car was driven to the upper station. Since the passenger trains were also barely occupied, the passenger train service was finally canceled on June 2, 1996 by the state of Thuringia. On October 31, 1997, the line was converted into a siding of the lower station. Freight traffic also ended on October 31, 1997. In 2001/02 the tracks in the upper station were dismantled.
Route description
course
The two terminal stations were only about two kilometers apart as the crow flies. Overcoming the almost 50 meter difference in altitude led to a swiveling, almost twice as long railway line. Initially, the route ran northwards parallel to the route to Weida and after about 500 meters turned west. At the point of the largest swiveling there was an approximately two-thirds route circle (diameter 400 meters), which began with a viaduct , or with the Tscherlich Bridge crossing the Triebesbach and the incision of a tributary ⊙ . After the route circle, the light rail ran a short distance to the south-east, before it ran south-west to the upper station. In total, the route was 3.659 kilometers long, 2.27 kilometers of which were uphill, while about 700 meters were downhill. Straight sections made up about half the length, the smallest arc radius was 200 meters. The level crossing over the Triebes – Zeulenroda road at kilometer 2.82 was equipped with a half-barrier system in 1973, it was the only secured level crossing on the line.
Operating points
Zeulenroda and Bf ⊙
Initially the station consisted of four tracks, a two-and-a-half-story station building, a water station, a farm building and a free pass were built. Already slightly expanded in 1890, the station was expanded extensively from 1912 with the construction of the Zeulenroda city railway. The branch line to the upper station ended at a butt track with a separate platform in front of the station building.
The first demolitions took place in the 1950s, and more tracks were removed at the end of the 1970s. Some tracks were also dismantled after the light rail stopped operating. In contrast to other train stations, however, there has not yet been any radical dismantling. Even today there are still five continuous tracks and two stub tracks. Only the goods shed has meanwhile been demolished, as has the reception building in 2010.
Zeulenroda ob Bf ⊙
In Zeulenroda upper station , a three-storey reception building with an extension, a farm building, a goods shed and a boiler house were built on high-rise buildings .
In its greatest expansion in the interwar period, the station comprised ten tracks with 28 switches. There was only one curved platform for passenger traffic, the facilities for freight traffic were much more extensive. In addition to a head and side ramp, a weighbridge, there were several loading streets.
In 1982 a container terminal was created that was hardly used any longer. Parts of the station area are now built over with a supermarket, the remaining areas are fallow.
Vehicle use and locomotive station Zeulenroda
| Affiliation with the Zeulenroda deployment site |
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| Depot | Period |
| Greiz | January 1, 1937 - May 4, 1949 |
| Gera | May 5, 1949 - December 31, 1954 |
| Reichenbach | January 1, 1955 - December 31, 1955 |
| Werdau | January 1, 1956 - March 31, 1967 |
| Zwickau | Jan. 1, 1967 - December 31, 1969 |
| Reichenbach | January 1, 1970 - 1972 |
With the construction of the branch line, a boiler house with two tracks was also built in the Zeulenroda city station. The rectangular building with an area of 350 square meters could accommodate two machines. Each track in the shed had an inspection pit, and outside the shed there was a slag channel. The administration and workshop were housed in an extension.
Initially two double locomotives of the type XVI TV were stationed here; However, the type V T was also used on the route . The double locomotives of the class XVI TV (developed from the classes VII TS and VII TOV ) were also in use on the light rail in the early 1920s. In the 1920s and 1930s, the 91.3-18 series from Zeulenroda was used. In the 1950s and 1960s, vehicles of the 75.5 and 86 series were stationed in the locomotive station . In 1972 the Zeulenroda deployment site was closed.
In the 1970s, the steam locomotives were displaced by the 110 series ; this series shaped the layout of the route until it ceased operations in the 1990s. The 219 series was also used last .
In 1982 the previous connections united to form an industrial railway community. The community's type LEW V 60 D shunting locomotive, built in 1977, was stored in the locomotive shed; after it was disbanded, the machine was transferred to the Gera depot in 1991 . The engine shed was demolished at the end of 2001.
literature
- Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Saxon State Railways , transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
- Wilfried Rettig: secondary and narrow-gauge lines, railway systems, accidents, anecdotes . In: The railways in Vogtland . tape 2 . EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-88255-687-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Route data on www.sachsenschiene.de
- ↑ STREDA - Total distance directory DBAG; Status: February 1, 2003
- ↑ a b c d Wilfried Rettig: Die Eisenbahnen im Vogtland, Volume 2, p. 77.
- ↑ a b Wilfried Rettig: Die Eisenbahnen im Vogtland, Volume 2, p. 79.
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland, Volume 2, p. 79 f.
- ↑ List of federally closed lines in the state of Thuringia that have been closed since 1994. Federal Railway Office , November 9, 2017, accessed April 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Viaduct Triebetal on www.sachsenschiene.de
- ↑ Tscherlichbrücke: Origin, History and Pictures
- ↑ Tracks in service facilities - as of October 1st, 2012 (PDF; 169 KiB)
- ^ Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Railway depot of the GDR - 1949-1993. transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71401-4 , pp. 17, 56, 64.
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland, Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-88255-686-2 , p. 226.
- ↑ Fritz Näbrich, Erich Preuss, Günter Meyer: locomotives Saxon Railways - freight train and tank locomotives, railcars. transpress Verlag, Berlin 1984, pp. 109, 113.
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland, Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-88255-686-2 , p. 226 f.
- ^ The V 60 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn - 15619 ( Memento of December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 6, 2013)
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland, Volume 2, p. 80.