Boppard Central Station
| Boppard Central Station | |
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 Boppard Hbf with a class 460 multiple unit
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | KBOP |
| IBNR | 8000045 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1859 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Boppard_Hbf |
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| City / municipality | Boppard |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 13 '52 " N , 7 ° 35' 10" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 76.3 m |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
Boppard Hauptbahnhof is the most important train station in the city of Boppard and is located on the edge of the city center not far from the Rhine . As a separation station, it is on the one hand on the left stretch of the Rhine from Cologne to Mainz , and on the other hand it is the starting point for the Hunsrück Railway to Emmelshausen . He owns three platform tracks. The listed entrance building from 1859 was demolished in 1989.
The owner of the station is DB Station & Service , who classifies it in station category 4. Of the long-distance passenger rail trains that run on the left-hand side of the Rhine, a few intercity trains stop at the main station every day , while local rail passenger transport is served by two regional express lines and two regional train lines.
In addition to the main train station, there are five other train stations in Boppard. The former Boppard-Buchholz and Boppard-Bad Salzig train stations were turned back into stops .
location
Boppard's main train station is on the western edge of the city center. The square to the north of the platforms is called Bürgermeister-Syrée-Platz. It is named after Joseph Syrée, the mayor of Boppard from 1850 to 1892. Säuerlingstrasse runs south of the station.
Together with the platform of the Boppard Süd stop and the repair hall for the trains of the Hunsrück Railway, the main station extends along the left-hand Rhine route from Mühltal in the west to Marienberg monastery in the east.
history
The Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft announced in 1854 that it was planning to continue building the line on the left bank of the Rhine from the previous terminus at Rolandseck to Bingerbrück . Construction began in the following years. In particular in the years 1858 and 1859 the line was built in the area of the city of Boppard. While engineers were already preparing the construction of the train station near the former St. Martin monastery, the population gradually realized that this place might be a. is not very suitable due to the distance to the city center. Although a part of the population and the business community spoke out in favor of a location to the east below the Marienberg monastery (not far from the location of today's Boppard Süd train station), those responsible on the part of the city ultimately preferred the location today. However, since the railway administration had already made considerable preliminary work, it was initially even necessary to send a delegation to the then Prince of Prussia Wilhelm , who knew the location from a personal visit and also advocated moving the station closer to the city. Only with this backing did talks in Berlin and Koblenz lead to a rethinking of the railway administration and with high financial expenditure also on the part of the city, the relocation of the station to its present location could be achieved. On December 15, 1859, the southern section of the Left Rhine route between Koblenz and Bingerbrück was put into operation.
At the same time, the Boppard train station was opened with the station building erected between 1858 and 1859.
Work on connecting the Hunsrück Railway to this station began around 1903 . Ultimately, the decision was made to route over today's Buchholz district , so that the railway line was connected to Boppard station from the north. However, the Säuerlingsturm, which was part of the medieval city fortifications , stood in the way.
Therefore, the tower was demolished in the years 1906–1908 and rebuilt with a thinner wall north of its old position. The line was opened in 1908. On the Boppard - Boppard-Buchholz section, the railway overcomes a height difference of 336 meters and is still one of the steepest adhesion railways in Germany today . In the course of the relocation of the Säuerlingsturm, it was expanded into a water tower . On February 10, 1914, "when darkness fell", a new "double light pre-signals " was put into operation for the introduction of the Hunsrück Railway into the station , which corresponded to the form signal model that is still in use today .
The electrification of the left Rhine route took place in 1958. An important step towards today's high-performance route on the left bank of the Rhine was the modernization of the signal box technology in the 1970s. The preparatory and planning work for the new signal systems in the Boppard district began in 1974. After around two and a half years of construction, the Boppard Bf central signal box was put into operation on the night of August 28, 1977 . It replaced the guard stations north (former locomotive shed), middle (level crossing Flogtstrasse) and south (level crossing Angert) with their mechanical signaling and security systems from the time before the First World War . At the same time, the level crossings on the Flogt and Angert were closed.
In 1994 the new reception building was opened in Boppard. The old building, which dates from 1859 and is a listed building, had to be demolished in 1989 due to the relocation of federal highway 9 . Since the handling of freight traffic in Boppard and on the Hunsrück Railway was discontinued, Deutsche Bahn had tracks and switches removed in the station from 1998. In particular, tracks 5 and 6 as well as the goods handling were dismantled. Parts of this free area now belong to the city of Boppard and serve as a parking lot. Remains of platform 5 can still be seen today.
For the summer timetable change on June 10, 2001, Deutsche Bahn renamed Boppard station to Boppard Hauptbahnhof . This happened on the initiative of the mayor of Boppard, Walter Bersch . At that time, Boppard had more access points for passenger traffic than Koblenz with the train station and the Boppard Süd , Hirzenach , Bad Salzig , Fleckertshöhe and Buchholz stations .
Rhenus Veniro has been the operator of the Hunsrück Railway since the timetable change in 2009 . For this reason, Rhenus Veniro bought the old and decrepit railway maintenance office from Deutsche Bahn in 2007 and two years later built a hall for parking and repairing its trains and a car wash there. The tracks of the depot in the main station were reconnected to the Deutsche Bahn route network.
Since the timetable change in December 2016, Boppard Hauptbahnhof has been served by two regional express lines. The new line, which runs between Koblenz and Kaiserslautern, compresses the regional express line Frankfurt – Koblenz in the area between Bingen and Koblenz to a one-hour cycle. In this context, the regional train line that connects Boppard with Mainz or Koblenz was redesigned to become a regional train line that commutes between Cologne and Mainz. The repeater trips on this line, which ran between Boppard and Koblenz, were no longer necessary due to the measure.
Infrastructure
The main station has three platform tracks. The (former) house platform on track 1 has a height of 38 cm and a length of 417 m. The central platform, which is on tracks 2 and 3, is also 38 cm high and 407 m long. As a rule, the trains towards Koblenz leave platform 1 and the trains towards Mainz leave platform 2. Platform 3 is usually used by the trains of the Hunsrückbahn, but also by trains to and from Koblenz that start or end here. In addition, platform 4, which has no platform, runs through the station. It is used unscheduled for overhauls of long-distance and freight traffic.
A pedestrian underpass connects the platforms with the main entrance from Bürgermeister-Syrée-Platz and the southern entrance.
The former reception building at the Bürgermeister-Syrée-Platz is now leased to a restaurant. Customer information and ticket sales are carried out by a private company, which has its headquarters at the opposite end of the Mayor's Syrée-Platz. On both platforms there are also two ticket machines and train destination displays for the respective track. There are also several food dispensers available.
There is a taxi rank at the Bürgermeister-Syrée-Platz and there are several bus stops available for connection to regional bus services.
A fee-based P + R system was built around the signal box in the southern access area to the main train station , which includes 55 parking spaces.
Structures belonging to the station
The demolished station building from 1859
The station building, built in the Wilhelminian style, was built between 1858 and 1859 according to the specifications of the architect Michaelis and opened in 1859 together with the Left Rhine Route. The plastered building had a forecourt overgrown with trees facing Heerstrasse. The other side of the building was on platform 1.
Quite quickly after the Hunsrück Railway went into operation, the demands for a redesign and expansion of the reception building increased. Inadequate office space as well as the lack of a restaurant were complained about. In 1912 the Reichsbahn began planning to modernize the building. However, due to the First World War and the global economic crisis , these plans could not be implemented. Therefore it took another 25 years until the successful renovation of the reception building could be celebrated on the Saturday before Pentecost in 1938.
The former 3rd class waiting room was closed and the driver's room and the station cash desk were housed there, the waiting hall got a lighter ambience and the toilet facilities were renewed. In addition, the catering, including the garden, was rebuilt and the office and service rooms of the station staff were renewed.
In 1989, the listed station building was demolished while a partial bypass was being built for Bundesstraße 9 .
The station building was a two-storey, eaves-standing plastered building, the floor division of which was visible on the outer wall through the parapet . This cornice and the window frames were made of light sandstone . The outer wall facing the city was divided into three parts according to the distribution of the rooms behind it. In the center were three coupled arched doors above a flight of stairs . There was a meander frieze over the doors. Above it were three window arcades supported by fluted pilasters with veneered, circularly decorated arched fields.
On each side there was a double axis with high rectangular windows that had a cornice roofing. On the narrow sides of the reception building there were three simple window axes with decorations as on the city side. The side of the building facing the track bed had seven axes, with the three in the middle springing back slightly.
The roof of the building was a wide, slate-roofed gable roof . The cantilevered, wooden console beams on which the roof was attached could be seen on the narrow sides .
Signal box
The signal box, which was built in 1977, is located south of the track system; it monitors and controls the left-hand Rhine route between Spay and Boppard- Hirzenach .
Locomotive station
To Zahnradlokomotiven type Prussian T 26 , local drains to wait that ran between 1908 and the early 1930s between Boppard and Buchholz on the Hunsrückbahn, the station between the tracks of Hunsrückbahn and the left bank line was in 1909 north-west a small depot built. However, it was not self-employed. In the first few years the locomotive station was administered from Simmern and Bingen .
At the end of the 1920s, locomotives of the type Prussian T 16.1 with counter-pressure brakes were transferred to the locomotive station . These will replace the rack-and-pinion locomotives of the Hunsrück Railway by 1931 at the latest. On May 21, 1937, the Boppard locomotive station was reassigned to the Simmern depot. But a short time later on September 23, 1940, the responsibility changed back to Bingerbrück. The next administrative change took place on December 1, 1945. The locomotive station was now managed by the Koblenz / Mosel depot .
The end of the locomotive station probably came along with the end of freight traffic on the steep Boppard – Emmelshausen line. The T 16 locomotives were transferred to Oberlahnstein and Engers in June 1956 . Until the 1970s, the former locomotive station was used as a locomotive shed for the VT 98 rail buses now operating on the Hunsrück Railway , until it was demolished.
On the site of the former locomotive shed there is now an administration building, a storage and repair hall as well as a car wash for the locomotives of Rhenus Veniro, the operator of the Hunsrück Railway.
Boppard South
The Boppard Süd stop is one of the tracks at Boppard Central Station. His platform is on track 17/18, which was previously used as a siding . This station, located 700 meters south of the main train station, is classified in station category 7. Boppard Süd is only served on weekdays once in the morning and twice at noon by the Hunsrückbahn local transport line. These trips were set up to shorten the way for the students from Boppard-Buchholz and Emmelshausen , as there are two schools nearby.
Unofficially, this stop has existed since 1987. At that time, the parents of the students complained that their children had to walk from the Boppard train station to school while other students were taken to the school by bus. As a solution to the conflict, it was offered to continue the corresponding trains to the wooden loading ramp below the Marienberg monastery , which has a secondary school in a new building . The clearance for travel between Boppard (main) station and Boppard Süd was given by a protective signal until the official commissioning of the stop , that is, it was operationally not train journeys .
It was not until 1998, with the completion of a parking garage on the former wooden loading ramp, that a paved platform was built and the Boppard Süd stop was officially established. Because of its location within the main train station, the stop is located both on the Hunsrückbahn route (route km 53.5) and on the left-hand Rhine route (route km 111.4). However, Boppard Süd can only be reached via the main station and not directly from one of the two routes.
traffic
passenger traffic
In Boppard main train station early in the morning and late at night a few hold intercity trains of long-distance passenger traffic . These run between Hamburg or Westerland / Sylt and Frankfurt am Main .
The station is served by two regional express lines for local rail passenger transport: the line operated by DB Regio runs between Frankfurt and Koblenz, the line operated by Vlexx shuttles between Kaiserslautern and Koblenz. By trans regio operated MittelrheinBahn (Cologne - Mainz) operated Boppard central station every hour. In addition, the Hunsrückbahn from Emmelshausen operated by Rhenus Veniro ends in Boppard Hauptbahnhof or in school traffic at the Boppard Süd stop.
| line | Line designation | Line course | Tact | Days of traffic |
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| RE 2 | Koblenz - Boppard - Bingen - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt | 120 min | Every day | |
| RE 17 | Koblenz - Boppard - Bingen - Bad Kreuznach - Kaiserslautern | 120 min | Every day | |
| RB 26 | MittelrheinBahn | Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz - Boppard - Oberwesel - Bingen - Ingelheim - Mainz | 60 min | Every day |
| RB 37 | Hunsrück Railway | Emmelshausen - Boppard-Buchholz - Boppard (- Boppard South ) | 60 min | Every day |
In the second half of 2008, an average of 7221 people boarded a train at Boppard Hauptbahnhof and an average of 435 people a week at the Boppard Süd stop.
There is a bus stop on the forecourt of the main train station. The bus route between Koblenz and Boppard and the bus routes that connect downtown Boppard and the Buchenau district run here. Local transport from Boppard is part of the tariff area of the Rhein-Mosel transport association .
Freight transport
After the Leiningen – Simmern section of the Hunsrück Railway was shut down on May 29, 1983, freight traffic on the Hunsrück Railway was again operated from Boppard. For this purpose, two special escort cars with the numbers 950 5 160 and 950 5 975 were stationed in Boppard , which were mounted on the tip of the train on freight trains up to 150 tons. For heavier trains, there was no accompanying car. The passenger train's locomotive was then coupled in its place. The compaction equipment manufacturer BOMAG in particular took care of the freight traffic. At the beginning of 1996 the freight traffic on the Hunsrück Railway was stopped. Since then, the Boppard train station is no longer important for freight traffic.
Planning
The platforms of Boppard main station can only be reached by stairs, so the station is not barrier-free . The state of Rhineland-Palatinate has decided to make all train stations and stops in the state accessible. For Boppard main station, this means that elevators will have to be built and the platforms have to be raised from the current 38 and 55 to 76 centimeters above the top of the rails.
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (KBOP) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 346 KiB)
- Boppard station on the private website hunsrueckbahn.info
- Graphic line map of the VRM for the urban area of Boppard
Individual evidence
- ↑ Querying the course book route 471 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of course book route 479 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Bruno Korn: From the French Revolution to the end of the Second World War . Ed .: Heinz E. Missling (= Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine . Volume 2 ). Dausner Verlag, Boppard 1997, ISBN 3-930051-03-6 , p. 244 .
- ↑ History Association for Middle Rhine and Vorderhunsrück (Ed.): From the old Boppard - A continuous chronicle for the years 1855 to 1876 by Wilhelm Schlad . Rhedruck, Boppard 1989.
- ↑ Bruno Korn: From the French Revolution to the end of the Second World War . Ed .: Heinz E. Missling (= Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine . Volume 2 ). Dausner Verlag, Boppard 1997, ISBN 3-930051-03-6 , p. 103 .
- ^ A b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate . tape 8 : The art monuments of the Rhein-Hunsrück district. Part 2: Former county St. Goar, the first town of Boppard I . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-422-00567-6 , p. 472-474 .
- ^ Regionalgeschichte.net: City fortifications. Accessed on April 9, 2010.
- ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 24, 1914, No. 5. Announcement No. 50, p. 33.
- ^ Hans Müller: Railway . In: Heinz E. Missling (Ed.): Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine . Third volume. Dausner Verlag, Boppard 2001, ISBN 3-930051-02-8 , pp. 90 .
- ^ Jürgen Johann: Stony path to the railway on the left bank of the Rhine. Tireless commitment of the Rhine riparian communities up to the opening of the route in 1859 . In: All about Boppard . October 21, 2011, p. 19 .
- ↑ Image from a train on the Hunsrück Railway ; you can see tracks 4 and 5 and the tool shed. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ^ Image of tracks 4 and 5 and a wagon for goods traffic to Emmelshausen . Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ^ Rhein-Hunsrück-Zeitung of March 8, 2001: Rail: Boppard draws level with Koblenz . Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ↑ Picture of the former railway maintenance office with tracks that led to the station . The track systems have meanwhile been dismantled. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ↑ newstix.de: Hunsrückbahn: Topping- out ceremony at the Boppard maintenance base. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate clock is being further improved. Retrieved December 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Platform information : Boppard Hbf. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 20, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Park + Ride at train stations. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Jürgen Johann: 100 years of the Hunsrück Railway 1908–2008 Boppard - Emmelshausen . Ed .: City of Boppard & Verbandsgemeinde Emmelshausen . Self-published by the editors, Boppard, Emmelshausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024757-6 , p. 115 .
- ↑ a b c Jürgen Johann: 100 years of the Hunsrück Railway 1908–2008 Boppard - Emmelshausen . Ed .: City of Boppard & Verbandsgemeinde Emmelshausen . Self-published by the editors, Boppard, Emmelshausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024757-6 , p. 185-211 .
- ↑ Tracks in service facilities (KBOP) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 165 kB) Retrieved on April 5, 2010.
- ↑ Jürgen Johann: 100 years of the Hunsrück Railway 1908–2008 Boppard - Emmelshausen . Ed .: City of Boppard & Verbandsgemeinde Emmelshausen . Self-published by the editors, Boppard, Emmelshausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024757-6 , p. 207 .
- ↑ Jürgen Johann: 100 years of the Hunsrück Railway 1908–2008 Boppard - Emmelshausen . Ed .: City of Boppard & Verbandsgemeinde Emmelshausen . Self-published by the editors, Boppard, Emmelshausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024757-6 , p. 209 .
- ↑ Hans Schweers (editor), Henning Wall (editor), Thomas Würdig (editor): Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland 2009/2010. 7th edition. 2010, Schweers & Wall, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
- ↑ www.fwg-boppard.de: Session template: City council meeting on June 20, 2011 (PDF; 4.2 MiB), p. 67, accessed on June 15, 2011.
- ↑ Jürgen Johann: 100 years of the Hunsrück Railway 1908–2008 Boppard - Emmelshausen . Ed .: City of Boppard & Verbandsgemeinde Emmelshausen . Self-published by the editors, Boppard, Emmelshausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024757-6 , p. 205-209 .
- ↑ Spnv-Nord: Appendix Top 2 of April 9, 2008 ( Memento of the original of December 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 83.6 KiB) Retrieved April 7, 2010.
