Karlsruhe freight bypass railway

Karlsruhe freight bypass railway
Route number (DB) :	4210 (Karlsruhe – Karlsruhe-Hagsfeld) 4211 (Karlsruhe – Karlsruhe-Durlach) 4213 (Karlsruhe – Karlsruhe-Brunnenstück) 4214 (Karlsruhe – Karlsruhe-Dammerstock) 4215 (Karlsruhe – Karlsruhe West) 4217 (Karlsruhe – Karlsruhe-Durlach)
Course book section (DB) :	% (freight traffic only)
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Dual track :	(continuous)
Legend Rheinbahn from Graben-Neudorf 4.2 Karlsruhe-Hagsfeld Rheinbahn to Karlsruhe Hbf Rhine Valley Railway from Bruchsal Stadtbahn from Heilbronn, Pforzheim S 4 S 5 Line from Pforzheim 2.4 Karlsruhe-Durlach Tram to Karlsruhe Marktplatz S 4 S 5 Bk Geisenrain to the track construction yard (to the former Karlsruher Gbf) Rheintalbahn to Karlsruhe Hbf from the former Durlacher Pbf / Gbf   (VzG routes 4210, 4217, 4211,?) to the former Karlsruher Gbf, to Karlsruhe Hbf 0.0 Karlsruhe Gbf (formerly Rbf) Albtalbahn S 1 S 11   (VzG routes 4215, 4214, 4213) Rheintalbahn from Karlsruhe Hbf Rheinbahn from Karlsruhe Hbf S 4 S 41 Palatine Maximiliansbahn from Karlsruhe Hbf 4.3 Karlsruhe-Dammerstock (Abzw) Rheinbahn to Rastatt S 4 S 41 5.0 Karlsruhe fountain (Abzw) Rheintalbahn to Rastatt 5.6 Karlsruhe West Palatine Maximiliansbahn to Wörth Swell:

The Karlsruhe freight bypass is a railway line south-east of the city center of Karlsruhe, reserved exclusively for freight traffic . The freight bypass enables freight trains to bypass the heavily frequented Karlsruhe main station on a direct, separate route.

The freight bypass line is classified as a main railway line , has two tracks throughout and is electrified with overhead lines. It belongs to the highest route class D4, which means the permissible axle load is 22.5 t and the load per meter is 8.0 t / m.

In the freight bypass railway, punctual train control (PZB) is used, in contrast to the parallel access route to the main train station , which is secured with line train control (LZB).

history

The line was laid out for the marshalling yard opened in 1895 in the southeast of the city. In the northeast it was connected on the one hand via a simple junction from the line between the old Karlsruhe main station and the old Durlach station, and on the other hand a track to the line to Graben, also opened in 1895, crossed the said main station-Durlach line. In the south-west it was also connected with simple branches to the line from the old Karlsruhe main station to Ettlingen-West and - crossing under it - to the lines to Wörth and Durmersheim, which were also opened in 1895.

In 1913 the new main station was built near the marshalling yard. In doing so, the freight transport routes were largely removed from the passenger transport routes without crossing. The old Karlsruhe freight yard near the city center, which was previously located directly on the old Rheintalbahn on the way to the old main station, became a sack station and was only accessible via the bypass from Hagsfeld, on the one hand via the track construction yard north of the old Durlach – Karlsruhe line , on the other hand via a track south of this. The same applied to the old Durlach freight yard. The former Karlsruhe repair shop near the former Karlsruhe freight station was also only accessible via the bypass.

Passenger traffic was only introduced on the bypass line in 1913 because the lines from the new main station to the Palatinate via Karlsruhe West and the new Mühlburg station were now also run on this line.

Todays situation

The container station was built between the marshalling yard and the passenger route between the main station and Durlach, and a loading point with two tracks on the other side of Wolfartsweierer Strasse. A more extensive freight yard originally planned to replace the disused freight yards in Karlsruhe and Durlach was not realized. The areas of the former Karlsruhe repair shop and disused parts of the freight yard are used to expand the Südstadt district and for a new district park, the Ostauepark.

The facilities of the marshalling yard drainage hill have been shut down. The former direction tracks are used by various EVUs as sidings, and the Material Distribution Center (MVZ) stores loaded and empty ballast wagons for construction sites there. A total of seven tracks are used to park locomotives for various EVUs.

Karlsruhe Gbf is today a central hub of SBB Cargo International in chemical traffic. Trains from four directions arrive here every day, the wagons of which are regrouped and shortly afterwards continue to roll with the connecting trains.

The goods bypass is connected to the route to Graben as VzG 4210 at Hagsfeld in both directions without crossing, to the routes to Bruchsal as VzG 4217 and Pforzheim as VzG 4211 only in the direction of travel from Bruchsal or Pforzheim towards the marshalling yard. The crossing-free connection between the marshalling yard and Pforzheim was shut down.

It is connected to the lines to Durmersheim and Ettlingen as VzG 4214 and 4213 in both directions without crossing, there is only a single-track line to the line towards Wörth (VzG 4215), which first crosses under the Maximiliansbahn and then connects to it at the same level in Karlsruhe-West is.

literature

• Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Baden. Volume 1: History and steam operation from 1945. EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1995, ISBN 3-88255-761-3 ( Südwestdeutsche Eisenbahngeschichte 11).

Web links

• Shunting yard , freight yard , container yard and repair shop in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
• Overview map with many comments at www.openstreetmap.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .