Lieschen (tram)

Special line "Lieschen" ( K-Wagen 108) during the Wäldchestag 2007 at its final stop Oberforsthaus

The Lieschen was a special line of the Frankfurt am Main tram . The line upside to 2013 on four days in the year during the Frankfurt folk festival Wäldchestag .

history

The special tram line was used from the 1930s. In 1970 she associated with biaxial war tramcars of J series or dressing trolley of series K . In 1977 the K- railcars used were repainted for the Ebbelwei-Express . O-cars followed from 1983 and from 1983 the K-cars of the Ebbelwei-Express. In 2014, VGF ceased operations because the line would have had to be repaired for 1.5 million euros when the new line was built over Stresemannallee . Instead, a historic omnibus is used.

business

The line only ran from Pentecost Saturday up to and including Tuesday after Pentecost , the actual Wäldchestag (also known as the “Frankfurt National Day”), most recently from 1pm to 1.30am every 20 minutes. Apart from the Ebbelwei-Express, the Lieschen was the only Frankfurt tram line on which conductors were still used. The normal tickets of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund were last valid on this special line . Occasionally, special trips with other bidirectional vehicles took place on the route .

Line course

The line inverted on a non-busy regular tramlines former part of the track of the Frankfurter forest path between the special station Riedhof (near the tram Stresemannallee / Mörfelder road of the lines 17 and 18) on the bus - stop Waldspielpark Louisa and a Behelfshaltestelle just before the station Oberforsthaus the line 21. The single-track line was used from 1889 by the forest railway line 2 to Schwanheim with steam trams until the traffic on this section was stopped on April 10, 1925 because of the new electric tram line 15 to Niederrad . The track was not provided with an overhead line until the spring of 1935 . After that, the route was used by the urban tram line 8, which did not run all day, until the 1930s. Since then there has only been regular passenger traffic on this section of the route during the forest day .

The track connection to the Frankfurt stadium accounted for by the barrier-free remodeling stop Oberforsthaus for 2006 FIFA World Cup and the extension of platforms for operation with railcars from type S in double traction . The access was at the other end of the route through Mörfelder Landstrasse via one of two previously existing tracks. The connection to the other direction track on line 14 was dismantled in the second half of the 1990s after a switch defect . As part of the new tram line over Stresemannallee , the access to the Lieschen line was to be rebuilt, which was ultimately not carried out on the occasion of the repair costs for the line. During the installation of the switch connection for the new line over Stresemannallee, the Lieschen line was separated from the rail network in April 2014.