Industrial trunk line
An industrial main track , alternatively an industrial track , industrial railway , industrial main track , main track , goods main track or in Austria called a siding or siding , is a special form of railway infrastructure. It is a - often widely branched - track system in an industrial or commercial area , on which only rail freight traffic takes place.
The main industrial track, which is itself a siding , bundles various other subordinate company siding - in this case called secondary connection , secondary siding , secondary siding , secondary connection or secondary connection recipient . It connects factories or other industrial operations that are located away from public railway lines and therefore do not have their own direct siding with the transfer station of a public transport railway , usually the respective state railway . It is therefore a main connection line or a main connection that mediates the traffic between one or more secondary connection line (s) and the public railway.
description
Industrial trunk tracks partly date from the time of industrialization and are used to promote the local economy and secure locations. Their infrastructure is therefore predominantly in public hands , for example in the form of (urban) self-operated . This means that the respective municipality acts as a railway infrastructure company (EIU) within the meaning of the General Railway Act (AEG), so legally it is a private railway . Some of the main industrial tracks are attached to the respective city and municipal works and / or local transport companies , for example in Ulm . In larger cities, there may be several industrial main tracks that are numbered or have location-specific names. For example, the Heilbronn industrial and port railway operates eight main tracks parallel to one another. In most cases, the operator of the industrial trunk line does not have its own locomotives . That is, the public railway to which the railway connects or other third railway companies drive their own locomotives in order transport directly to the Anschließern. For the use of the track infrastructure, the respective railway company (EVU) has to pay appropriate fees to the municipalities.
Industrial main tracks often run on longer sections - similar to a tram - in the public street space, i.e. either flush with the road on grooved rails or parallel to the street on Vignole rails . Typically, numerous switchbacks or pull-out tracks or turntables are used, which sometimes require complex shunting operations.
With the increasing shift of freight traffic to the road and the closure of numerous traditional factories, industrial main tracks have lost their importance over the years and are now only found sporadically, or, compared to the time of greatest expansion, only serve a fraction of the formerly existing siding. In some cases there is only one single customer, such as in Ludwigsburg (as of 2012). On the other hand, occasionally regular railway lines were converted into industrial trunk lines after the discontinuation of local rail passenger transport . One example of this is the Bad Salzungen – Unterbreizbach railway line , which was closed in 2003 .
Examples
- Feuerbach industrial railway
- Ludwigsburg industrial railway
- Seckbach industrial railway
- Albertstadt industrial railway
- Stieglgleis
- Leipzig Plagwitz
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Industrial tracks of Stadtwerke Singen on stadtwerke-singen.de.
- ↑ Industrial track of the Göttinger Verkehrsbetriebe ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on goevb.de.
- ↑ Metro.Freight.2020: Selection of means of transport for medium-sized businesses - strategy for strengthening and efficient use of the rail infrastructure in metropolitan areas
- ↑ Main track of the city of Füssen on stadt-fuessen.de
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Environment: Assessment of system-related traffic noise on lfu.bayern.de
- ↑ a b Dieter Arnold, Heinz Isermann, Axel Kuhn, Horst Tempelmeier , Kai Furmans (eds.): Handbuch Logistik . 3. Edition. VDI / Springer, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-72928-0 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-72929-7 .
- ^ Thomas Berndt: Rail freight traffic. Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig / Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-519-06387-5 , p. 92.
- ↑ Own operation Kreis Wesel - Kreisbahn on Kreis-wesel.de.
- ^ City of Meckenheim: Conditions of use for service facilities - general part (NBS-BT), industrial trunk line (PDF).
- ↑ Manfred Pötzl: The industrial track systems of the city of Ulm - West track.
- ↑ Terms of use of the service facility Industriestammgleis Europaviertel ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 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. on stadtwerke-giessen.de
- ↑ Joachim Dog: Photo tip - Rangierlokeinsätze in the Stuttgart region . In: Railway courier . tape 6/2012 , no. 477 , 2012, p. 36-39 .
