New Weinsteige Line
| Bopser-Stuttgart-Degerloch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 2.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Neue-Weinsteige-Line is a former meter-gauge railway line in Stuttgart , which was later re- licensed as a tram line . In 1987 it was shut down and replaced by the Bopser - Degerloch light rail tunnel .
The 2.6-kilometer-long narrow-gauge railway ran from Ernst-Sieglin-Platz in the south district - the stop there is still named after the mountain Bopser - via Hohenheimer Straße, Neue Weinsteige and Obere Weinsteige to Albplatz in the Degerloch district. Due to its route with a panoramic view of the Stuttgart basin , it was considered one of the most beautiful tram routes in Germany.
history
As early as 1884, the state capital Stuttgart and the town of Degerloch, which was independent until 1908, were connected by the Stuttgart cog railway . However, the departure station of the rack railway was in Filderstrasse and thus peripheral to the city center. In order to be able to offer passengers a shorter connection, the Filderbahn-Gesellschaft (FBG) received the concession for the route from the Württemberg state on September 25, 1902, and the route was opened on May 1, 1904.
At the Bopser it was possible to change to line 6 of the Stuttgart trams (SSB), but initially there was no track connection. The new line was single-track , the track was on the slope side, and electrified from the start. In Degerloch, on the other hand, there was a change to the so-called Upper Filderbahn , the Stuttgart-Degerloch – Stuttgart-Möhringen railway line . Despite the existing track connection, however, passengers were obliged to transfer. The reason for this was not least operational reasons, the street-level Neue Weinsteige line was operated as a tram and without freight traffic from the very beginning .
From August 11, 1905, the management was transferred to the FBG successor company Württembergische Nebenbahnen (WN). From March 1, 1920, the city of Stuttgart was responsible, and in the same year the Neue-Weinsteige-Line was finally merged with the metropolitan tram network, which was also meter-gauge at the time. From then on, the SSB were responsible for operational management on the Filderstrecks before they were fully integrated into the SSB network on January 1, 1934. The SSB expanded the line to double tracks and moved it from the edge of the road to the middle of the road.
In the course of the ongoing expansion of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn , the Bopser – Waldau section was relocated to a mined tunnel on September 26, 1987, and the tram tracks were removed. On November 3, 1990, the rest of the line followed in the upper area, where the own track structure was dismantled in favor of additional lanes for car traffic. For a while, the intercity buses from lines 73 to 77 replaced the tram, later a line taxi with the number 78 was used for a few years . Today only night buses run on the Neue Weinsteige .
To the present day, the overhead line masts are reminiscent of the former tram on the Neue Weinsteige, today they are used for street lighting .