Grünstadt – Altleiningen railway line
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 Grünstadt station , starting point for the railway line
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| Route number : | 3422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 274g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 10.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Grünstadt – Altleiningen railway was a 10.7 km long branch line from Grünstadt to Altleiningen in the north-eastern Palatinate Forest . The railway line was opened in 1903. In 1967 the passenger traffic was stopped and in the following period the section between Maihof-Drahtzug and Altleiningen was dismantled. Freight traffic was operated on the remaining route until the end of 2005.
Route
The route was completely in what is now the Bad Dürkheim district . It ran through vineyards to the Neuleiningen-Kleinkarlbach train station and then entered the Palatinate Forest , where it disappeared into a veritable “green tunnel”.
history
Development until 1945
In 1901 the route was measured. From Sausenheim it had to be cut so that a gradient could be avoided at Kleinkarlbach. Italian workers were used to build the railway line. During the construction work, Roman graves were discovered on the railway embankment.
On the route that ran in the valley of the Eckbach , the inaugural trip finally took place on February 25, 1903. A few days later, on March 1st, regular operations began. At the level of the Drahtzug train station, a siding was also built for the Dradura company (formerly Drahtzug). The community of Kleinkarlbach, located on the route, had fiercely opposed the construction of the route because they feared the route could affect the region. Accordingly, Kleinkarlbach was the only municipality along the route that did not celebrate the opening.
The starting point in Grünstadt became the train control station, train running points were in the Sausenheim and Neuleiningen-Kleinkarlbach stations.
To the west of the hamlet of Neuleiningen-Tal and south of the Eckbachweiher , the railway line crossed the historic washing area of Neuleiningen on a steel bridge . The bridge is still preserved (2014), but without tracks.
Shutdown (since 1945)
After the Second World War , the demand for passenger transport fell sharply due to increasing motorization.
The last passenger train on the route ran on May 28, 1967. The route was last recorded in the Deutsche Bundesbahn timetable under route number 274g. Freight traffic between Drahtzug and Altleiningen ended on September 28, 1969, after which the tracks on this section were dismantled. On the remaining distance still about three and a half decades was long freight traffic by the private railway company ConTrain instead.
Occasionally special trips were carried out on the railway line. So there was in 1987 a trip of Rheingold , who in Reichenbach at the brook course took its output and then, among other things on the track of Eis Valley Railway wrong that led up by wire drawing. On September 27, 1987, the Rheingold ran as a company special train from Reichenbach an der Bachbahn via Otterbach , Kaiserslautern and the Eistalbahn to Neuleiningen. In October of the following year there was a farewell trip for the Worms ETA battery-powered railcars to Neuleiningen-Kleinkarlbach organized by the DGEG .
As of December 31, 2005, the remaining freight traffic was discontinued after the corresponding lease had not been extended. As early as July 26, 2004, when an electronic signal box went into operation in Grünstadt , the railway line had been converted into a station track of the Grünstadt station.
The long-term goal is to convert the no longer used railway line into a cycle path . The former community of Grünstadt-Land , which merged into the new community of Leiningerland in 2018 , commissioned an engineering office to plan the project in 2007 .
literature
- Klaus D. Holzborn : Railway areas Palatinate . transpress, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-344-70790-6 .
- Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science . Volume 53 ). pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holzborn, p. 95.
- ↑ a b Holzborn, p. 35.
- ^ Die Rheinpfalz , Region, August 16, 2007.