Hedge cable pull

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The term Heckeneilzug is used in the technical jargon of railway workers in Germany as a name for an express train that mainly connected metropolitan areas, but the route of which led in whole or in part over routes that were otherwise not used in long-distance traffic. Often these were branch lines or less frequented main lines .

historical development

Hedge cable trains emerged in the 1950s from the endeavor to stimulate traffic and connect more remote and structurally weaker regions to the long-distance rail network without changing trains . For this purpose, the routes of individual trains or pairs of trains were laid in such a way that routes could also be used that otherwise had no supra-regional traffic. Most of these train connections were well received by the public because they offered the possibility of reaching more distant metropolitan areas at an acceptable travel speed without having to change trains and without the surcharge due for express trains . The comfort of the - mostly modern - wagon material used also contributed to the acceptance.

The offer was expanded over the years, until in the 1970s a decline began due to the progressive closure of the branch lines and the hedge cable trains were increasingly discontinued. In order to essentially save train runs , new routes were introduced on existing routes. For example, the hedge cable train Bremerhaven – Frankfurt / Main finally ran via Altenbeken and Kassel. Furthermore, there were special train runs after the fall of the Wall, such as a pair of express trains Leipzig  - Jüterbog  - Beelitz  - Potsdam-Stadt with locomotive changes in Jüterbog and the guidance over the branch line Jüterbog - Potsdam Pirschheide in the 1996 summer timetable .

Individual connections have been upgraded to express trains (although the term hedge express train is rarely used for these trains). Since the increasing synchronization of traffic to the detriment of connections free of transfers in the 1990s, there are only a few train runs today that are referred to as `` Heckeneilzug '' in the narrow sense.

The last known representative of its kind was the Kleber Express from Munich to Freiburg.

In the period from 2002 to 2007, a regional express line called the Vier-Länder-Express operated as a successor to the Interregio Munich – Leipzig with two pairs of trains from Leipzig to Munich on several non-long-distance routes. On her route of 476 kilometers she served places such as Zeitz , Gera , Zeulenroda , Weida , Mehltheuer , Hof and Regensburg . The states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Bavaria were involved in this transport service in accordance with the regionalization law .

Some current regional express lines use the concept of connecting different regions on a route that would previously have been typical for a hedge cable train (e.g. Göttingen – Mühlhausen – Gotha – Erfurt – Gera – Chemnitz); However, because of the daily service every two hours or even more frequently, the trains cannot be regarded as rear-end trains in the earlier sense. Due to increased restrictions on the transport authorities of public transport in their own region, such inter-regional connections are however likely to decline again in the future due to lack of funding.

Demarcation

The name Heckeneilzug is used almost exclusively for trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . It is not used for trains operated by other railway administrations.

The term was not coined by the Deutsche Bundesbahn - it has never officially used it - but comes from the railway press and literature. The names by which individual trains were known (such as Grenzland-Express ) always remained unofficial. One exception is the Kleber Express , named after Andreas Kleber, who made special efforts to expand and maintain this hedge cable train.

Long-distance trains that go to holiday or winter sports locations that are on branch lines or that are extended there (for example in southern Bavaria, on the North and Baltic Seas) are not considered to be hedge ropes. However, these are sometimes used as a different type of train in route sections - e.g. B. also as regional express - and stop in individual cases on the branch line sections at all intermediate stations (e.g. the pair of trains IC 2082 / RE 2082 and IC 2083 / RE 2083).

In order to display the train routes in the timetable, own timetable tables were partly set up.

Examples of earlier hedge cable pulls

literature

  • Konrad Koschinski: On remote routes - Hedge cable trains . In: Eisenbahnjournal, 7/2008, pp. 14-25.
  • WK: Concocted . In: EisenbahnGeschichte 51 (2012), pp. 18–26.
  • Lutz Münzer: Hedge cable trains - without changing . In: LokMagazin 1/2016, pp. 32–47.
  • Ralf Alexander Tyborczyk: For everyone's benefit . A contribution to the history of the Grenzland-Express. In: Railway history . No. 101 , August 2020, ISSN  1611-6283 , p. 12-21 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian J. Anders: Small states or blessing of regionalization? In: Bahn-Report issue 6/2011, pp. 4–5.
  2. ↑ Timetable of the Grenzland-Express .
  3. ↑ WK: hatched , p. 18.
  4. ↑ WK: hatched , pp. 18-20 .
  5. ↑ WK: Outgoing corner , S. 20 - 26
    German Federal Railways: coaches Directory Winter 26.9.1976-21.5.1977 .
  6. ^ Stefan Högemann: Form signals and local goods traffic. The branch line from Bünde to Rahden. In: Bahn-Report 4/2019, p. 81.
  7. ↑ Sascha Koch, Horst Kowalski, among others: Railways in Oberbergischen and the history of the Dieringhausen railway depot. Galunder Verlag, Nümbrecht 2005, ISBN 3-89909-050-0 , p. 29.