Leipzig freight ring
The Leipziger Güterring is a railway connection in Saxony and consists of several individual routes . As a freight train bypass in the Leipzig railway junction, it connects all incoming routes with each other and in this function enables the operational separation of passenger and freight train traffic.
history
The construction of the Leipzig freight ring is closely linked to the extensive redesign of the Leipzig railway system in the years before the First World War . At that time, the parallel railway infrastructure of the Kgl. Saxon State Railways and the Prussian State Railways are no longer up to date and insufficient.
Most of the route was built by the Prussian State Railways north and west of the Leipzig city area. The Kgl. Saxon State Railways built some connecting lines east of Leipzig, which were used in particular to integrate the new Leipzig-Engelsdorf marshalling yard . The Saxon Plagwitz-Lindenau-Gaschwitz connection , previously only operated as a secondary line, was expanded to become a single-track main line .
The stretch between the Wahren marshalling yard and Leipzig-Schönefeld was spanned with electric catenary as early as 1914. It was one of the first electrified mainline lines in Germany. Due to the two world wars and the resulting dismantling, the complete electrification of the freight ring could not be completed until 1963.
By 1969, the connection Leipzig-Plagwitz-Gaschwitz was expanded to the first Leipzig S-Bahn line A. After the political and economic changes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, traffic was thinned out and cut down, and in 2002 it was stopped entirely after the ever-decreasing number of passengers .
Today, the freight ring still carries the bulk of the freight traffic in the Leipzig railway junction. Scheduled passenger train traffic no longer takes place, except through construction-related diversions. Nevertheless, based on all the lines for passenger trains approved routes ; the eastern part of the freight ring, for example, is sporadically used for diversion between Berlin and Dresden by long-distance trains. In the past, they were regularly used for special trade fair trains that ran to the Bavarian train station . With the opening of the city tunnel on December 15, 2013, the section between Stötteritz and Paunsdorf was integrated into the network of the Central German S-Bahn .
stretch
Built by the Prussian State Railways:
- Leipzig-Leutzsch-Leipzig-Wahren (born April 9, 1905)
- Leipzig-Wahren-Leipzig-Schönefeld (born May 1, 1906)
Built by Kgl. Saxon. State Railways:
- Leipzig-Plagwitz-Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz (born September 1, 1879 as a secondary line; expanded into a main line in 1907)
- Leipzig-Schönefeld-Leipzig-Engelsdorf (born May 1, 1906)
- Leipzig-Engelsdorf-Leipzig-Stötteritz (born May 1, 1906)
literature
- Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Saxon State Railways. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
