Egge tunnel
| Egge tunnel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Hamm – Warburg railway line | |||
| place | Egge Mountains ; Lichtenau , Willebadessen | |||
| length | 2880 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 (double track) | |||
| cross-section | 12.20 m | |||
| construction | ||||
| building-costs | 75 million euros | |||
| start of building | January 28, 1998 | |||
| completion | November 17, 2003 | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | DB network | |||
| release | December 12, 2003 | |||
| location | ||||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal (Lichtenau) | 51 ° 38 ′ 56 " N , 8 ° 57 ′ 49" E | |||
| South portal (Willebadessen) | 51 ° 37 ′ 58 " N , 8 ° 59 ′ 44" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Eggetunnel is a 2880 m long railway tunnel on the Hamm – Warburg railway line , which crosses the Egge Mountains between the East Westphalian towns of Willebadessen and Lichtenau . It was built from 1996 to 2003 and thus replaced an above-ground route running further east.
75 million euros were invested in the tunnel.
course
The tunnel is part of the central Germany connection Dortmund - Kassel - Chemnitz . Since the 1980s there were plans to expand the connection from Dortmund, Paderborn and Bielefeld via Warburg to the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe ICE train station for high-speed traffic. In addition, the existing road ran over unstable terrain and was damaged by a slope slide.
In the area of the harrow crossing, the route was then redrawn over a length of 12.85 km. The Eggekamm between Paderborner Berg and Glaseberg is now being driven under with a tunnel that is designed for 200 km / h, but the signaling technology (missing line control or ETCS ) currently only allows 160 km / h. Neuenheerse station was given up; Willebadessen station was completely rebuilt in connection with the tunnel construction and reopened for passenger traffic.
Since the tunnel only contains one tube, the Federal Railway Authority ordered that no passenger and freight trains may meet in the tunnel.
For the new section, a 70 m wide aisle had to be cut through the forest. As a compensatory measure, two forest areas were connected to one another via a newly created 68 hectare forest area.
Individual ICE, InterCity , regional and freight trains will pass through the tunnel in the 2015 timetable . The ICE is the Dresden – Düsseldorf and Darmstadt – Düsseldorf – Munich / Munich – Düsseldorf – Wiesbaden connections. The IC trains run through the tunnel every two hours (with numerous clock restrictions and gaps).
The north portal near Asseln
The south portal at Willebadessen
The shell completed tunnel (2001)
The long straight, shortly before the start of train operations (October 2003)
history
A tunnel at Willebadessen was planned as early as 1847, but it turned out to be too costly and led to the bankruptcy of the Cologne-Minden-Thuringian Connection Railway Company (KMTVEG) . The Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , which had taken over the route project, then built the above-ground, but unfavorably routed railway.
The section between Warburg and Altenbeken , which was used until 2003, was opened on October 4, 1850. It led east of the Glaseberg over Neuenheerse and Herbram-Wald . This old route was destroyed several times in landslides. In addition, it only allowed medium speeds.
The 12.9 km long new line section with the tunnel was put into operation at the timetable change on December 12, 2003. The construction work was delayed by about a year as a result of water ingress.
On November 8, 2008, a communication and rescue exercise with 190 emergency services from the surrounding villages took place in the tunnel. Another exercise with over 900 rescue workers involved and 100 vehicles from the Paderborn and Höxter districts took place on the night of April 9th to 10th, 2011. In addition, some vehicles from the German Red Cross and the civil protection department from the Lippe district were also involved in the exercise. In addition, a roll-off container from the Höxter district was transported by a carrier vehicle from the Holzminden volunteer fire department (Lower Saxony).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Altenbekener Eisenbahnfreunde 95 e. V. / data ( memento of the original from September 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Altenbekener Eisenbahnfreunde 95 e. V. / History ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Harrow crossing opened . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 2/2004, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 60.
- ↑ a b Deutsche Bahn: Moving People - Connecting Worlds ( Memento of May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 9.2 MB), Berlin 2008, without ISBN, p. 67
- ↑ Communication / MANV exercise next Saturday at the Eggetunnel ( 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. , Press release of the Paderborn district of November 6, 2008
- ↑ Large-scale exercise by the fire brigades and rescue workers at the Egge railway tunnel ( memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
