Freight bypass

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A freight bypass is a railway line specially designed for use by freight trains .

task

Goods bypass paths are on the one hand, the (main, sometimes header) station of a city to bypass in order to avoid a deterioration of passenger traffic, or, more generally, a separation of the paths of movement of persons from the freight to enable.

On the other hand, by bypassing the inner city, the risk of hazardous goods accidents should be avoided, and residents along inner-city routes should also be protected from noise.

Freight bypasses are also used by passenger trains in the event of operational difficulties. However, there are also scheduled passenger trains that do not stop in certain cities and bypass them using the appropriate freight bypass to relieve the main line. In Germany these are mainly ICE sprinters .

history

The first requests for bypass lines for the then slow and noisy freight traffic go back to around 1880. The first section of the Hamburg freight bypass line was put into operation in 1902, the one in Hanover in 1909.

During the Second World War, rail traffic was often diverted via the freight bypass railways.

List of freight bypasses

Germany

Other European countries

Other continents