National test facility for traffic engineering

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The National Test Facility for Transport Technologies was a planned test facility for wheel-rail and maglev systems, which was to be built between Dillingen and Donauwörth in the 1970s .

In addition to the industrial companies involved in wheel-rail research and the rolling test bench in the Bundesbahn repair shop in Munich-Freimann , the planned test facility was one of three planned pillars for wheel-rail and maglev research in Germany in the 1970s. It ultimately failed because of popular resistance.

history

During a visit to the Transrapid at Krauss-Maffei in Munich in autumn 1971, Federal Transport Minister Georg Leber announced the establishment of a test facility in Donauried . The 60 km long test track was to be the first of its kind in Europe and cost a little more than 100 million Deutschmarks. The final decision should be made in the same year, the funds had already been made available. The commissioning should take place in 1973 if possible, then between 1974 and 1976 Transrapid vehicles would run on it continuously.

A location of the test facility in the Westerwald , between Frankfurt am Main and Bonn, which was previously proposed by Leber, had been discarded due to the high costs of around 400 million Deutschmarks due to the location . Leber had suggested the Westerwald location because of its proximity to Bonn and the possibility of including the test section in a possible final route.

Preparatory work began in 1972 with the establishment of a construction team. On November 9, 1973, the Federal Council dealt with the "Draft of a law on the construction and operation of test facilities for track-guided traffic". It finally came into force on February 4, 1976. According to the law, the Federal Republic should build the test facility as a federal railway system, but not as part of the federal railroad assets . A plan approval procedure should be carried out for the facility .

The project planned by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Research encountered bitter resistance in the Donauried. From the mid-1970s, the failure of the project was foreseeable. The project was abandoned in 1977.

With the discontinuation of the test facility, research in wheel-rail systems in Germany in the 1970s was largely limited to theoretical research results. The Emsland Transrapid test facility was built between 1980 and 1987 as a test track for the maglev train . The Gütersloh - Hamm section of the Hamm - Minden railway line was initially prepared for wheel-rail tests, especially high-speed journeys. From 1986 these test drives were relocated to a newly completed section of the high-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg .

The planning for a railway test facility Rheine – Freren (22.7 km for up to 350 km / h) developed from the end of 1978 onwards was also given up after more detailed planning.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Kalb: The track-bound traffic of the future . In: Deutsche Bundesbahn (Ed.): DB Report 72 . Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1972, ISBN 3-7771-0119-2 , pp. 83-89.
  2. ↑ a b c Stefan Zeilinger: Race on the rails . In: Deutsches Museum (Ed.): Contributions to Historical Transport Research , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-593-37257-6 ( Contributions to Historical Transport Research . Volume 5), p. 157.
  3. ↑ Test track for long-term tests . In: Die Bundesbahn , 9/1988, pp. 879–881.
  4. ↑ Announcement Leber announces large-scale test route for high-speed high-speed railway . In: Die Bundesbahn , year 45 (1971), issue 21/22, ISSN  0007-5876 , p. 1093
  5. ↑ a b The test facility for the railway of the future is being built in Donauried . In: Die Bundesbahn , year 45 (1971), issue 23/24, ISSN  0007-5876 , p. 1237 f.
  6. ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn (Ed.): DB Report 74 . Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1974, ISBN 3-7771-0134-6 , p. 138
  7. ↑ Harald Werthefrongel: A new railway construction law . In: The Railway Engineer . tape 28 , no. 5 , May 1977, ISSN  0013-2810 , pp. 204-209 .
  8. ↑ a b Zeilinger (2003), p. 161
  9. ^ Diethard Affeldt: Railway test facility Rheine – Spelle – Freren . In: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau , Volume 29, Issue 10, pp. 685–696
  10. ↑ Laudation for Prof. Dr. Hubert Hochbruck . Extract from Axel Güldenpenning: Annual meeting 2004 of the DMG in Essen . In: ZEVrail Glasers Annalen , Volume 129 (2005), No. 1/2, pp. 6-15