Mannheim marshalling yard
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 Aerial view of the marshalling yard, looking towards Bergstrasse / Heidelberg
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| Operating point type | Marshalling yard |
| abbreviation | RMR |
| opening | October 1, 1906 |
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| Place / district | Mannheim |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 27 ′ 21 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 18 ″ E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The marshalling yard Mannheim ( Bf. Mannheim RBF ) is one of the largest and most efficient marshalling Europe . It is designed on two sides .
geography
The station extends along the Mannheim – Basel railway line ( Badische Hauptbahn ) on an area of over 200 hectares between the Mannheim districts of Neckarau in the southwest, Neuhermsheim in the northwest, Pfingstberg in the southeast and Hochstätt in the northeast.
On its length of over 6 kilometers and width of an average of 400 meters, it is crossed in a north-south direction by the federal highway 6 and the federal highway 38a .
history
Mannheim was a transshipment point for goods in the 19th century due to its important Rhine port and an important industrial location. This also required the construction of a marshalling yard. In 1863 the city's first pure marshalling yard was built in the Lindenhof district . Its capacity was no longer sufficient for the growing city and the port at the turn of the century, and a new building was necessary. In 1906 a new two-sided marshalling yard was completed at its current location (cost: 18 million marks). During the Second World War , the station was temporarily expanded, but was badly damaged at the end of the war. After its repair, it was expanded in the 1960s and 1970s and its basic layout has remained largely unchanged since then. The shunting technology was modernized at the beginning of the 21st century.
Today's meaning
The two-sided marshalling yard has 42 directional tracks in the east-west drainage system and 41 in the opposite direction . Both drainage systems are automated . Today it has a throughput of around 5,300 wagons per day and is therefore of outstanding importance for freight traffic in all of southwest Germany , Mannheim and the Mannheim port .
On the busy Mannheim – Heidelberg route, including the junction to Frankfurt am Main via Darmstadt ( Main-Neckar Railway ), there are two stops for local transport in the area of the Mannheim marshalling yard . They are each station of many regional lines, such as the RheinNeckar S-Bahn . The “Mannheim-Seckenheim” stop is in the Hochstätt district. The three-track stop “ Mannheim ARENA / Maimarkt ” is located at one of the end points of the tram and connects important facilities to local public transport, such as the SAP Arena and Mannheim's Maimarkt . In 2011, the stop replaced the old “Mannheim Rangierbahnhof” stop, which was insufficient for the traffic peaks at events in the arena in terms of safety and capacity.
Regional and high-speed rail transport
The former passenger station, which was used by the RE 60, RB 60, RB 44, S 1, S 2, S 3 and S 4 lines, was rebuilt around 300 m to the east at the end of 2011 and is now called Mannheim ARENA / May market .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Tangl: Faster to the arena with the S-Bahn ( memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Mannheim Morning of December 10, 2011.