Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard

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Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard
Einsiedlerhof runoff mountain and direction group 1998.jpg
Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard, view of the discharge mountain with the direction group behind, photo c. 1988
Data
Location in the network Marshalling yard
opening 1920
location
Place / district Kaiserslautern
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '4 "  N , 7 ° 41' 2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '4 "  N , 7 ° 41' 2"  E
Railway lines

Mannheim-Saarbrücken

Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard is a freight yard within the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Kaiserslautern . It was opened in 1920 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

location

Hp Vogelweh on the Palatinate Ludwig Railway, condition around 1988

The train station is located in the western part of the city on the suburb of Einsiedlerhof . In east-west direction it is 3.3 kilometers long. At its western end is the Einsiedlerhof passenger station, at its eastern end the Vogelweh stop . In the south it is bordered by the Kaiserstraße running parallel to it , in the north by the main tracks of the main line from Mannheim to Saarbrücken.

history

Beginnings

The Kaiserslautern main station, opened in 1848, quickly developed into an important transshipment point for goods traffic, so that a marshalling yard was built immediately to the southwest of it, which was designed as a terminal station and ran parallel to Trippstadter Straße . As rail traffic continued to grow, it was increasingly reaching the limits of its capabilities. For this reason, the Royal Bavarian State Railways , which had owned the entire Palatinate railway network since January 1, 1909, had a new marshalling yard built along the railway line from Mannheim to Saarbrücken in the border area between Kaiserslautern and Einsiedlerhof, which was then part of Weilerbach . This was put into operation in 1920 and 1921 - already under the direction of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. At that time it was one of the most modern of its kind in the German Empire . From then on, its predecessor functioned exclusively as a parking facility. Due to the limited space, the two main tracks between Einsiedlerhof and Kaiserslautern had to be relocated to the north for its construction, as this was not possible for the Kaiserstraße south of the marshalling yard. Due to the wind conditions in the West Palatinate, the entrance was at the western end, the exit at the east. From then on, the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard was a train formation station for freight trains that opened up the western Palatinate.

Since the traffic between the Kaiserslautern main station and the new marshalling yard grew significantly, the section of the route there also received two additional tracks that were used exclusively for freight traffic. The Kaiserslautern depot was always responsible for the locomotives operating in the marshalling yard .

Since 1932, when the Einsiedlerhof was relocated to Kaiserslautern, the marshalling yard has been located exclusively in the district of Barbarossa town.

Loss of meaning

In the course of the increasing decline in rail freight traffic and the modernization of interlocking technology, the marshalling yard increasingly lost its importance. So the eastern exit was given up and dismantled accordingly; Both entry and exit have since been handled from the western side.

Today's traffic

The current importance of the marshalling yard is primarily regional. Among other things, it serves the nearby Opel plant , which is responsible for several block trains per day . It partially relieves the Saarbrücken marshalling yard . The container terminal was privatized and meanwhile also lost its importance, although it is used by the Kaiserslautern Military Community .

The block trains from the Rammelsbach quarry on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line also experience a change from a diesel to an electric locomotive. The same procedure took place until they were closed on trains that served the quarries in Bedesbach-Patersbach (until 1989), Kreimbach (until 1990) and Theisbergstegen (until 2004).

literature

  • Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2008 ( online (PDF; 4.1 MB) [accessed December 8, 2013]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 40 .
  2. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 12 .
  3. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 32 .
  4. ↑ kbs-670.de: Photo gallery - train stations and stops - Vogelweh . Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 40 .
  6. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 39 .