Fürth – Cadolzburg railway line

Fürth (Bay) Hbf – Cadolzburg
Route number :	5911
Course book section (DB) :	808
Route length:	12.817 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend from Nürnberg Hbf 0.000 Fürth (Bay) Hbf (from 1939) 297 m 0.300 Fürth local train station (until 1939) to Bamberg to Würzburg Hbf 0.642 Rednitz , seven arch bridge (172 m) 1.534 Fürth Westvorstadt 2.522 Fürth- Dambach Southwest bypass Main-Danube Canal 3.216 Fürth old fortress Fürther Strasse (Schillischlucht) 4.935 Zirndorf 310 m 6.100 Zirndorf Kneipp bath (1937–1946) 6.130 Zirndorf Kneippallee (from 1996) 7,898 Weiherhof 330 m 10,950 Egersdorf 335 m 12.817 Cadolzburg 361 m Swell:

As a railway line Fürth – Cadolzburg , also Rangaubahn is a branch line in Bavaria . It runs from Fürth via Zirndorf to Cadolzburg . In the past it was popularly known as “Cadolzburger Moggerla” (Moggerla means calf in Franconian ).

history

The single-track, 12.9-kilometer line was opened to Zirndorf on November 30, 1890 and completed on October 14, 1892. A few months later, Cadolzburg's First Mayor, Hans Brandstätter, asked the Lokalbahn Aktien-Gesellschaft to continue the Rangaubahn from Cadolzburg via Deberndorf and Seubersdorf to Unterstbibert in order to open up the quarries on Dillenberg by train. The LAG rejected this in a letter dated February 1, 1894 due to the "unfavorable terrain". It belonged to the Lokalbahn Aktien-Gesellschaft in Munich until August 1, 1938 and was then taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

Lookout tower, popularly called "pencil"

In 1893 the observation tower, popularly known as the "pencil", was built by the local railway company to promote excursion traffic to Cadolzburg. In 1910, around 13,000 passengers used the train to Cadolzburg on a Sunday during the Bläih (cherry blossom season), the LAG made 52 trips on that day. On May 15, 1937, together with Zirndorfer Kneipp bath, the demand stop Kneipp bath was opened. With the summer schedule in April 1946, the stop was no longer served. A tunnel was built to remove the level crossing east of the Zirndorf train station . The vernacular named the Schillischlucht tunnel, inaugurated on November 28, 1980, after the First Mayor Virgilio "Schilli" Röschlein . In 1994, construction work began to relocate Paul-Metz-Strasse and the Rangaubahn in order to remove another five level crossings. Construction work was completed on October 20, 1995. The Zirndorf Kneippallee stop was opened on September 28, 1996 . In 1997, Deutsche Bahn planned to modernize and electrify the line. The project was abandoned in 2004. In August 1997, there were 18 railroad crossings, both barred and open.

Expansion plans

In 1973 the Fürth district council considered electrifying the line. In the 1990s, the district politicians, led by District Administrator Gabriele Pauli, campaigned for a conversion to a light rail route and the associated electrification. A line from Kleinreuth – Fürth Süd – Altenberg – Leichendorf – Ammerndorf and a cross connection from Zirndorf via Altenberg to Oberasbach or to the Nuremberg – Ansbach line were also planned for this light rail network. In the 1990s, the electrification of the Rangau Railway was considered as part of a DM 90 million investment package from federal and state funds.

The considerations for a two-system light rail on the line were rejected in 1997/1998. Plans for electrification with 15 kV led to massive resistance from residents in 1998, who opposed the then necessary felling of some trees. A planning approval procedure for electrification that was ongoing in 1998 with the government of Central Franconia was then suspended. In October 2000, the Fürth district council finally gave up the urban railway concept.

In 2000 the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs announced that it would support the modernization of the line with an initial amount of 6.5 million DM from a total budget of 23 million DM. The expansion of the stations and train protection should enable trains with speeds of 80 km / h to be used. Electrification was again considered. After the realization of the S-Bahn to Forchheim, further concrete steps should be discussed.

At the beginning of 2002, Deutsche Bahn agreed to renovate the line as part of a DM 90 million modernization program from 2003 for DM 6.5 million (3.2 million euros). In 2003 it was planned to adapt the arrival and departure of the trains to the S-Bahn situation after completion of the renovation and the completion of the S-Bahn to Forchheim.

In 2004 it was planned to modernize all platforms along the route. Initially, a platform height of 76 cm was planned for this, but later 55 cm was planned. The platforms of the two Zirndorf stations had recently been converted to 76 cm. On July 30, 2007, the new construction of the platforms at the stations Fürth Westvorstadt, Fürth-Dambach, Weiherhof, Egersdorf and Cadolzburg began. 4.5 million euros were to be invested in replacing the old earth platforms with new precast constructions.

A connection of the trains of the Rangau Railway via the ring railway to Graefenberg was examined by the Bavarian Railway Company and classified as uneconomical, although a previous report on behalf of the city of Nuremberg had come to a different conclusion.

business

The Fürth Westvorstadt stop looking towards Fürth Hauptbahnhof

Cadolzburg terminus

Since September 27, 1987, the line has been integrated into the transport network for the greater Nuremberg area and has since been referred to as the R11 . Since 1996 the line has been running every 30 minutes during peak and off-peak hours; the crossing takes place in Zirndorf. The operation is carried out by DB Regio Franken . The travel time is 23 minutes, which corresponds to a travel speed of almost 34 kilometers per hour.

The Alte Veste stop is still in the urban area of ​​Fürth, the Alte Veste, on the other hand, is already in the Zirndorf urban area.

In 2005, the Bavarian Railway Company put out tenders for regional traffic on the Rangau Railway as part of the Nuremberg diesel network for the years from 2009 onwards across Europe. DB Regio was later awarded the contract .

In mid-December 2015, the Bavarian Railway Company announced that it wanted to re-assign the transports in the Nuremberg diesel network to DB Regio. The formal award is to be made on January 4, 2016, and commissioning is scheduled for June 2019. The contract runs until June 2031.

Around 1,400 people get on and off at Zirndorf train station every day.

Vehicle use

Locomotive FEET

Beginning in 1901, came on the rangau railway, the locomotive FEET used, which was preserved in museums to this day. However, such small three-couplers had major problems with heavy trains on the slope between Zirndorf and Weiherhof, which is why the machine was passed on to Upper Swabia as early as 1911.

Since the timetable change on 14 December 2008 on the rangau railway diesel multiple units of the series 648 used. Previously, mainly class 614 trains ran ; in the morning rush hour one train consisted of a class 218 diesel locomotive and a set of n-type cars . Since the timetable change in June 2006, a class 642 railcar has been commuting between Fürth and Cadolzburg at the weekend .

Web links

Commons : Rangaubahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Route, operating points, permitted speeds and signals on the OpenRailwayMap
• Route description on local traffic Franconia (private)
• The Rangau Railway as an H0 model railway (private)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Peter Ramsenthaler: Local Railway Nuremberg – Unternbibert – Rügland: From the Franconian metropolis to Rangau. H-und-L-Publ.-Souvenirs-Verlag Bleiweis, Schweinfurt 1996, ISBN 3-928786-48-2 , p. 3.
4. ↑ Sylvia Fehlinger: Hiking in Cadolzburg. October 15, 2011, accessed April 29, 2016 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Rolf Syrigos: 3.2 million euros for the »Moggerla« . In: Nürnberger Zeitung . April 2, 2004.
6. ↑ Walter Schatz: City of Nuremberg sets the course . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . April 7, 1993.
7. ^ Nürnberger Nachrichten, September 29, 1997.
8. ↑ Adamwalter Wieserner: The tram doesn't run . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . October 25, 2000.
9. ↑ 6.5 million marks for the Rangau Railway . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . April 5, 2000.
10. ↑ Egbert M. Reinhold: The railway wants to invest 1.3 billion euros . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . March 27, 2003.
11. ↑ Erik Stecher: A curious argument about 20 centimeters . In: Nürnberger Zeitung . September 7, 2004.
12. ↑ Rangaubahn is being renovated . In: Nürnberger Zeitung . July 28, 2007.
13. ↑ DB Regio is “optimistic” . In: Franconian Day Kronach . September 9, 2005, p. W1 .
14. ↑ National Express Rail is to be awarded the contract for S-Bahn traffic in Nuremberg, DB Regio is to remain the operator of the Nuremberg diesel network. (PDF) press release. Bavarian Railway Company , December 15, 2015, accessed on December 24, 2015 . 
15. ↑ Tenders 2015 Diesel Network Nuremberg. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft , 2015, p. 4 , archived from the original on September 30, 2015 ; accessed on December 29, 2015 . 
16. ↑ The train station in Zirndorf has too many and too few passengers for an elevator at the same time. In: infranken.de. September 29, 2016, accessed October 1, 2016 .