Feuerbach industrial railway
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 Map of the Feuerbach industrial railway, as of 1989
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The industrial railway Feuerbach is a standard-gauge and non-electrified industrial connection railway in the Stuttgart district of Feuerbach , which is used to transport goods to various sidings of industrial companies. It starts at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen station and leaves the Frankenbahn route shortly before the former freight area of Stuttgart-Feuerbach station . The responsible railway infrastructure company is the city of Stuttgart itself, in the legal sense it is a rail connection of the city. The industrial railway Feuerbach is assigned to the subsidiary Hafen Stuttgart GmbH - analogous to the Hafenbahn Stuttgart . It is operated by the German railway subsidiary DB Schenker Rail , which it usually a shunting the series V 60 starts.
history
In the course of industrialization in the second half of the 19th century, numerous new companies also emerged in the then still independent town of Feuerbach. A railway connection existed as early as 1846, but numerous companies were located far away from the Feuerbach freight station and were therefore interested in a more direct means of transport for their raw materials and products. As early as 1899/1900, the local industrial companies founded an initiative for the construction of a connecting railway , which the Royal Württemberg State Railways approved. Construction work began in 1907, and the first kilometer of the route went into operation in 1909. The further expansion took place rapidly due to the high and still increasing demand for transport, in 1919 the track length was already 21.3 kilometers and increased to around 25 kilometers by 1929.
The widely ramified tracks of the industrial railway were - similar to a tram - mostly flush with the street and overcame larger differences in height in the direction of Killesberg . This was due in a hairpin necessary in Sieglestraße. A special feature were the two level crossings with the tracks of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn of the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG in the course of the Heilbronner Straße, which existed until 2012. Before 1990 there were also other level crossings with the old meter-gauge tram, these were in Siemensstrasse, Stuttgarter Strasse, Wiener Strasse and the Feuerbach station forecourt.
From the 2000s onwards, the underpass under the Frankenbahn - previously used jointly by the industrial railway and road traffic - collided with the plans to relocate traffic to the city center of the federal highway 295 . Maintaining the track despite the four-lane expansion of the underpass would have required the lowering of the rotting Feuerbach below , which would have cost a total of 3.2 million euros. Instead, the city of Stuttgart paid the Flint Group, the last connection customer east of the Frankenbahn, a compensation of 1.5 million euros in 2012 for not using the rail connection. The traffic on the track network east of the Frankenbahn ended in December 2012, the line has since ended at the intersection of Wernerstraße / Steiermärker Straße / Bludenzer Straße / Bregenzer Straße.
Before that, however, a new alternate junction (Awanst) was added at the beginning of the route in autumn 2012 for scrap handling Karle Recycling GmbH , when the company relocated its location from the north station to the site of the former freight yard at Feuerbach station as a result of the Stuttgart 21 project .
On December 31, 2014, Robert Bosch GmbH finally also ceased rail transport. The railway systems on the factory premises have been de-designed upon application to the Stuttgart regional council. Since then, there are only two serviced connections, Karle Recycling GmbH and the Wiegel Group .
See also
With the Münster – Cannstatt industrial line , there was also another line of a similar character in the Stuttgart city area, but which was electrified.
literature
Wilfried Wunderlich: freight railway on the Killesberg . In: railway magazine . October 1989, p. 42-43 .
Web links
- Description of the industrial railway at www.feuerbach.de
- Track overview plan Stuttgart-Feuerbach on the operator's side
- The industrial railway Feuerbach on www.ulmereisenbahnen.de
- Track plan of the industrial railway in the historical forum at www.drehscheibe-online.de
- Video of the farewell trip of Verkehrsfreunde Stuttgart on May 2nd, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ in the disused section
- ↑ DB Netz: Tracks in service facilities , April 1, 2011 (PDF, 299 kB)
- ↑ Georg Friedel: Expensive renouncement of the industrial track . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . February 18, 2011 ( [1] [accessed October 9, 2014]). Expensive waiver of the industrial track ( memento of the original from October 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Joachim Dog: Photo tip - Rangierlokeinsätze in the Stuttgart region . In: Railway courier . tape 6/2012 , no. 477 , 2012, ISSN 0170-5288 , p. 38 f .
