Bonn-Beuel – Großenbusch railway line

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Bonn-Beuel-Großenbusch
Route number (DB) : 9613
Route length: 4.625 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
End station - start of the route
 0.00 Bonn-Beuel industrial railway
   
 Transition to the right stretch of the Rhine
   
 Kalthoff lamp factory ( Awanst )
   
 Rhenag gas works Beuel ( Awanst )
Blockstelle, Awanst, Anst etc.
 0.64 AW Andernach ( Anst )
   
 1.1 former branch line to Limperich
   
 German Vialit ( Awanst )
   
 2.10 Putz
Stop, stop
 2.74 Pützchen's market
   
 2.80 Bechlinghoven
   
 3.60 Kohlkaul Kautex-Werke ( Awanst )
Blockstelle, Awanst, Anst etc.
 3.92 Lafarge ( Anst )
   
 4.53 Hangelar former transition to the Bröltalbahn
   
 Clay pit Commans, Refractory Contzen ( Awanst )
   
 6.20 Grossenbusch
Swell:

The Bonn-Beuel – Großenbusch railway is a single-track, non-electrified railway line from Bonn-Beuel to Großenbusch. The Hangelar – Großenbusch section has meanwhile been dismantled; on the remaining 4.625 km Beuel - Pützchen - Hangelar section, there is only passenger traffic at Pützchen's market today . The city of Bonn owns the line, also known as the “Beueler Industriebahn”. This has leased the route to the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn (RSE).

Route

The private railway originally running from Beuel via Pützchen , Bechlinghoven and Hangelar to Großenbusch with its terminus on what is now the Waldstrasse has now been reduced to the section to Hangelar. The former branch line to Limperich also no longer exists.

In Hangelar there was a transfer option to the Bröltalbahn from 1955 to 1967 via a trolley pit that was recently barely used .

One of the sidings on the disused branch line to Limperich had an approach curve .

Technically, the route is relatively demanding. It has few topographical features. Apart from the “tunnel passage” through the former “ AW Andernach ” plant in Beuel and the underpass under the federal motorway 59 near Pützchen, there is no bridge on the entire route, but eight technically secured level crossings are in operation on the four-kilometer stretch.

history

The line was opened on December 28, 1900 for the transport of coal to the Hangelarer Tonwerke and of clay products for further loading onto the state railway by Industriebahn AG . During the Second World War, more and more fuel was transported to Hangelar Airport . In the 1950s, two freight trains ran daily on the route; on December 1, 1965, the Hangelar – Großenbusch section was closed and dismantled in 1971/72. In the 1960s, rail operations were barely economical: in 1965, only 25,000 tons of goods were transported. In 1964, train transportation with its own locomotives was given up. The Kleinbahn continued to provide the train crew, but a small locomotive from the Deutsche Bundesbahn stationed in Beuel was rented by the hour as a locomotive .

The remaining goods traffic to Hangelar was stopped in 1994. Thereupon the city of Bonn bought the remaining 4.6 kilometers long line and leased it to the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn .

present

Pützchens Markt stop with MAN rail bus

At Pützchen's market and at Nikolaus there is passenger traffic on the remaining Hangelar – Pützchen – Beuel route. While a regular regular schedule has been offered at Pützchen's market since the 1990s (mostly every 30 minutes), the St. Nicholas trips only take place when required.

The company Calderys in Hangelar was regularly used for freight transport until 2009. The freight wagons were picked up by the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn with their own locomotive at the Troisdorf freight yard and were transferred to the small railroad at Bonn-Beuel station . After the plant in Hangelar was abandoned and demolished, freight traffic on the entire route was effectively suspended.

future

Efforts are being made to use part of the route in the event of an extension of the Bonn Stadtbahn to Holzlar . The necessary crossing of the DB route (right Rhine route) by means of a tunnel or bridge structure at the Bonn-Beuel train station, however, represents a technically and financially almost insurmountable obstacle.

literature

  • Gerd Wolff: Kleinbahn Beuel – Großenbusch (Klb BG) . In: German small and private railways. Volume 4: North Rhine-Westphalia, southern part . EK-Verlag GmbH, Freiburg, 1997, ISBN 3-88255-660-9 , p. 209-216 .
  • Horst Dietel: Kleinbahn Beuel – Großenbusch . In: Stadtarchiv Sankt Augustin (Ed.): Contributions to the history of the city . Issue 47, 2008, ISBN 978-3-938535-45-5 , ISSN  0936-3483 .

Web links

Commons : Kleinbahn Beuel – Großenbusch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  2. ↑ Löttgers, Rolf: private railways in Germany: The German railway company 1960-1969, Stuttgart 1983, p 94
  3. ↑ ibid., P. 96
  4. ^ Horst Dietel: Kleinbahn Beuel – Großenbusch . In: Stadtarchiv Sankt Augustin (Ed.): Contributions to the history of the city . Issue 47, 2008, ISBN 978-3-938535-45-5 , ISSN  0936-3483 , p. 76 .