Gönninger Bahn

Reutlingen Hbf – Gönningen
Course book section (DB) :	325e (1960) 317p (1944)
Route length:	16.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	26  ‰
Minimum radius :	180 m
Legend from Plochingen of Schelklingen 0.00 Reutlingen Central Station to Eningen to Tübingen 0.10 Reutlingen tram (lines 3 and 4) Echaz 0.30 Tram Reutlingen (line 1) Gutenbergstrasse 0.50 Reutlingen private railway 0.60 Reutlingen West 1.40 Connection company Knapp Connection to Reutlingen municipal utilities 2.30 Plochingen – Tübingen railway line Reutlingen-Betzingen 2.79 Betzingen breakpoint 350 m 2.90 Breitenbach 3.39 Betzingen industrial area 6.42 Ohmenhausen 418 m 8.11 Mahringen 10.90 Gomaringen 430 m 12.30 Wiesaz 14.40 Bronnweiler 481 m 16.50 Gönningen 518 m Swell:

The Gönninger train was a single-track private railway branch line , which in Reutlingen to the plochingen-tübingen railway joined and after Gönningen led.

history

The Badische Lokal-Eisenbahnen (BLEAG) built the private railway on the basis of a Württemberg concession from July 16, 1900 and opened it on April 20, 1902. From 1910, the line was operated by the Württemberg branch lines (WN), which became part of the Württemberg railway in 1984. Society (WEG) merged.

Passenger traffic on the Gönninger Bahn was discontinued with effect from May 29, 1976. Freight traffic between Ohmenhausen and Gönningen formally ended on June 30, 1982, although Gomaringen station was still served until July 31, 1982. The shutdown between Reutlingen and Ohmenhausen followed three years later, on June 30, 1985. The city of Reutlingen took over the facilities up to the Betzingen industrial area and continued operations as a connecting railway . Since 1997, the section from the connection of the Reutlingen municipal utilities has also been closed to traffic.

The Reutlingen Hauptbahnhof – Gomaringen section is to be rebuilt as part of the Neckar-Alb regional light rail line - partly on a different route. The line to Nehren to the Zollernalbbahn is to be continued via a new line .

traffic

Passenger traffic initially developed well. In the first year of operation, 220,000 people were transported. In 1938, six pairs of passenger trains ran on weekdays and five on Sundays. 435,000 passengers were carried with them. After the Second World War , after the first peaks (1947: 620,000 passengers), performance fell considerably. In 1949 a parallel bus line was set up. In 1950 three pairs of trains still ran on weekdays and one pair of trains on Sundays. In 1951 there were still 100,000 passengers. From 1955 only one pair of trains was shown, it was the transfer of the railcar from the locomotive shed in Gönningen to Reutlingen to be able to take over the freight wagons, and then back again in the evening.

Freight traffic didn't start out so positively. Mainly agricultural products were transported, by 1914 it rose to 35,000 tons per year. Between 1919 and 1940, the transport services were between 8,000 and 10,000 tons. Due to new siding in the Reutlingen and Betzingen area, freight traffic increased considerably, between 30,000 and 40,000 tons were transported annually. From the end of the 1960s, freight traffic decreased steadily and in the 1970s and 1980s it moved around 10,000 tons per year. Mainly the sidings in the Reutlingen area were served, there was only a small amount of freight on the line. The largest customer was the Bosch company , which had a siding with its own locomotive. Their abandonment of the siding in 1984 sealed the end of the railway in 1985.

vehicles

In the beginning, the railway was operated with two or three three-axle wet steam locomotives and eleven passenger cars. Other steam locomotives were also used later. As the first diesel multiple unit , the VT 70 900 (ex DR 801) was bought second-hand by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1954 and used on the route as the T 03. When the T 03 was to be converted into a twin-engine tow railcar in 1957 , it was replaced by the modernized T 02. The T 07 was used from 1979 until the end of operation.

literature

• Hermann Bürnheim: Württemberg Railway Company. The story of an important private railway . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-613-01145-X .
• Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 211-214 .
• Gerd Wolff, Hans-Dieter Menges: German small and private railways. Volume 3: Württemberg . EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-88255-655-2 , p. 312-331 .

Web links

• Gönninger Bahn at www.vergessene-bahnen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
2. ↑ RegionalStadtBahn final report - short version: Map of the route network of the district of Reutlingen ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )