Rhine-Main Railway

Mainz – Aschaffenburg
Route number (DB) :	3520 (Mainz Hbf – Mz-Bischofsh Pbf) 3530 (Mz-Bischofsh Pbf – Darmstadt Hbf) 3537 (Stockschneise – Darmstadt Hbf, Geri 3530) 3540 (Stockschneise – Da-Kranichstein) 3550 (Darmstadt Hbf – Darmstadt Nord) 3557 (Darmstadt Hbf –Aschaffenbg Hbf)
Course book section (DB) :	651
Route length:	77.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	160 km / h
Dual track :	(continuous, except route 3550)
Legend Left Rhine route from Boppard Bischofsheim bypass, Wiesbaden Route from Alzey from the port of Mainz 0.000 Mainz main station S 6 Tunnel Mainz Hbf (direction north) New Mainz tunnel (direction south) Mainz Süd tunnel (north direction) 1,800 Mainz Roman theater Route from the first main station in Mainz Line to Ludwigshafen S 6 3.076 Mainzer Südbrücke , border RLP / Hessen Originally the terminus of the Mainz – Gustavsburg train station 4,580 Mainz-Gustavsburg 5.600 from Mainz-Gustavsburg Hafen (Anst) Bischofsheim bypass, Wiesbaden 7.780 Mainz-Bischofsheim Pbf Main Railway to Frankfurt (Freight yard see bypass ) 11,100 Mainz-Bischofsheim Überltg I (Bft) 16.475 Nauheim (b Groß-Gerau) 19.739 Gross-Gerau Connection curve to the Riedbahn 20,390 Gross-Gerau East (Bft) Riedbahn Mannheim – Frankfurt Connecting curve from Riedbahn 21.175 Klein-Gerau Eichmühle (Bft Abzw ) A 67 22.013 Klein-Gerau 26,646 Weiterstadt 29.652 Weiterstadt Stockschneise (Abzw, free of height ) former Riedbahn from Riedstadt-Goddelau 30.668 Darmstadt mountain lane (Abzw) former Riedbahn to Darmstadt Gbf Main-Neckar Railway from Frankfurt Main-Neckar Railway from Frankfurt 34,950 31,861 Darmstadt Gbf (Bft) 33.96 033.360 Darmstadt Central Station Main-Neckar-Bahn to Heidelberg Bk extinguisher meadow "Frankfurt Curve" from Darmstadt-Arheilgen Main-Neckar Railway until 1912 Bk Sensfelder Weg to the former main station (until 1912) 37,850 32,373 Darmstadt North Odenwaldbahn to Höchst from the former main station (until 1912) Former connecting curve from Odenwaldbahn 40.374 34.850 Darmstadt-Kranichstein Railway Museum Darmstadt-Kranichstein 45.594 Messel ( Messel Pit ) Rodgaubahn from Reinheim 53,200 The castle Rodgaubahn to Offenbach 57.647 Altheim (Hess) 59.876 Hergershausen Sickenhofen (planned) 63.100 Odenwaldbahn from Höchst 63.711 Babenhausen (Hess) 64.800 Odenwaldbahn to Hanau 65.125 Production execution limit 68.540 Waldmühle block station until 1938: state border 68,561 State border Hesse / Bavaria 71.685 Stockstadt (Main) 72.202 Stockstadt Main railway bridge 73.232 Mainaschaff Abzw (on the route to Frankfurt Süd) 73.540 Mainaschaff from Frankfurt (Main) Süd 76.100 Aschaffenburg Hbf exit (Bft) 77.700 Aschaffenburg Hbf to Würzburg Hbf Swell:

The Rhein-Main-Bahn (also Main-Rhein-Bahn ) is a railway line from Mainz via Darmstadt to Aschaffenburg . It was opened in 1856/58.

Route

In Mainz , the line crosses the Rhine opposite the mouth of the Main at the Mainspitze and turns south-east towards Groß-Gerau after Bischofsheim , where the Mainbahn branches off towards Frankfurt am Main . Then it runs east to Darmstadt and from there it reaches the main station from the north. From there, you can only continue on the route with a change of direction . Continuous line tracks make it possible to drive across the apron of Darmstadt main station directly in the direction of Aschaffenburg, but this option is only used by freight traffic. To the east of Darmstadt, the route leads through a contiguous forest area via Messel station to Dieburg , where there is a connection to the Dreieichbahn to Dreieich-Buchschlag and Frankfurt am Main. The route then runs in a north-easterly direction via Babenhausen and crosses the Main between Stockstadt and Mainaschaff . So she finally arrives in Aschaffenburg . The line is double-tracked and electrified . The Rhein-Main-Bahn is one of the few routes with regional trains that touch three federal states ( Rhineland-Palatinate , Hesse , Bavaria ).

history

Diesel multiple units in front of the line keeper's house 63 near the Messel train station

The Rhein-Main-Bahn was planned, built and operated by the private Hessian Ludwig Railway. It thus entered into competition with the north Mainian connection between the Rhine and Aschaffenburg and the connection there to the Bavarian Ludwigs-West-Bahn , which was made by the Taunusbahn and the Hanauer Bahn . In contrast to these, it offered uninterrupted traffic, while Taunusbahn and Hanauer Bahn ended up in two different train stations in Frankfurt am Main that (yet) had no rail connection. The disadvantage of the Rhein-Main-Bahn was that it was initially dependent on the Mainz – Gustavsburg trajectory to cross the Rhine to Mainz . Apart from the Rhine and Main, however, there were no significant terrain obstacles that the railway had to overcome.

The basis of the construction was a state treaty between the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Kingdom of Bavaria of March 28, 1852 and the Hessian concession of March 3, 1856. Construction began after the harvesting work was completed in 1856. In February 1858, the route between Mainspitze (on the banks of the Rhine, across from Mainz) and Darmstadt . On April 19, 1858, Grand Duke Ludwig III visited. the construction site at the Mainspitze and used a train. From July 18, 1858, test drives took place. The Rhein-Main-Bahn in the section between Mainspitze and Darmstadt was finally opened on August 1, 1858. First, freight traffic was opened here . A little later, the first passenger trains also started . The eastern section to Aschaffenburg followed on November 15, 1858, and scheduled traffic began on December 27, 1858. In the beginning, there were three continuous pairs of trains running every day, a few years later there were eight. The construction of the railway infrastructure had cost 3.9 million guilders . The line was set up for a second track from the start, but it was not moved until 1871.

When the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community was formed in 1897, the Hessian Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and thus the Rhein-Main-Bahn were included and nationalized. The Hergershausen stop was established on May 1, 1899. In 1905 the line from Bischofsheim to Babenhausen was equipped with "telephones" . In 1907 the self-block between Dieburg and Aschaffenburg went into operation as train protection and the telegraphic train reports were omitted. On July 1, 1909, the Mainaschaff stop was put into operation.

After the opening of the new Darmstadt main station in 1912, the route was re-kilometered.

In 1937, the connecting curve between the Mainaschaff junction and the Steinerts junction on the Frankfurt Süd – Aschaffenburg railway was put into operation.

The line was electrified in 1958/59 , and traffic has been electric since May 9, 1960. In September 1990 the " Lindwurm Campaign " took place between Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg .

The route was tendered by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) for the period from December 2008 for ten timetable years. The tender was won by DB Regio , which since the end of July 2008 has been gradually converting the train sets from old n-wagons to modern double-deck wagons . The trains ran beyond Mainz to Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof . They ran the 1st and 2nd carriage classes and always had a train attendant. An hourly service was offered on the route. Trains between Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg ran every two hours on Saturday afternoons and Sundays; Every day from 10 p.m., the train service on this section was replaced by buses. During peak rush hour traffic, Monday to Friday between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. and between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., additional trains run every half hour and also serve Gustavsburg train station .

On December 9, 2018, Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (HLB) took over the transport services on the Rhein-Main-Bahn from DB Regio.

traffic

Freight transport

The route is important for long-distance freight traffic, which bypasses the Frankfurt am Main hub. It connects the left and right Rhine route with the Würzburg – Aschaffenburg railway , but also to the north via Hanau with the Kinzig Valley Railway , the Friedberg – Hanau railway and the Main-Weser Railway . The connection is also used by motorail trains and occasionally for military and nuclear waste shipments.

passenger traffic

Class 143 with regional train in Mainz-Bischofsheim on the way to Darmstadt

The route is used in local rail passenger transport as route book route 651 and has line number 75 in the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

The Hessische Landesbahn, whose transport contract is valid until 2033, has been on the road here since December 9, 2018 . Since then, there has been a continuous 30-minute cycle between Darmstadt and Wiesbaden from Monday to Friday, except for the edge of the day , the Darmstadt - Aschaffenburg section is only served every half hour during rush hour traffic, but it now starts at 1 p.m. Outside of the times just mentioned, trains run every hour on the entire route. The last train from Darmstadt to Aschaffenburg leaves at 10:32 p.m., on weekend nights at 11:32 p.m., and the last train from Darmstadt to Wiesbaden leaves at 11:40 p.m. or on weekend nights at 12:40 a.m. With the 2018 timetable change and the associated transfer of operations, the first train will only enter Aschaffenburg at 06:15, in previous years this was the case every day (except Sundays and public holidays) at 05:35.

The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund did not order a replacement for the interregional trains that ran every two hours between Mainz and Darmstadt in the 1980s and 1990s after the Deutsche Bahn AG discontinued the service.

The route leaves the RMV tariff area east of Babenhausen and enters the tariff area of ​​the Verkehrsgemeinschaft am Bayerischen Untermain . However, there is a transitional tariff.

Incidents

On the morning of January 5, 1937, a fully occupied bus crossed the railroad crossing, which was then restricted, in the area of ​​the Schönauer Hof block (today: L 3012). Workers coming home from the Opel factory in Rüsselsheim after changing their shifts drove with him . The level crossing was between the stations Bischofsheim and Nauheim (b Groß Gerau) . At the same time the empty train Lp 4704 approached the level crossing. The gatekeeper fell asleep and the barrier system wasn't closed. There was a collision. A passenger on the bus, a worker from Graefenhausen , died in hospital from his injuries. Shortly afterwards, another accident occurred at the same location.

vehicles

To 8 December 2018, the inverted regional trains with pull trains , consisting of three (in two or three additional Berufsverkehrumläufen) modernized double-deck cars and locomotives of series 143 .

Electric multiple units of the 1440 series have been in operation since December 9, 2018 , most of which are in double traction . They have air conditioning , facilities for the disabled , modern passenger information systems and free WiFi . Their design-related top speed is 160 km / h.

literature

• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 231 ff . (Route 014).
• Georg Wittenberger: The Main-Rhine Railway . In: Georg Wittenberger / Förderkreis Museen und Denkmalpflege Darmstadt-Dieburg (ed.): The railway and its history (=  series of publications of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district . Volume 2 ). Darmstadt 1985, DNB  881028320 , p. 51-57 .
• Franz Beckmann: The rail mail from Mainz to Aschaffenburg . In: Georg Wittenberger / Förderkreis Museen und Denkmalpflege Darmstadt-Dieburg (ed.): The railway and its history (=  series of publications of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district . Volume 2 ). Darmstadt 1985, DNB  881028320 , p. 58 f .

Web links

Commons : Rhein-Main-Bahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Walter Kuhl: The Riedbahn from Darmstadt to Goddelau. The end of Weimar, the Nazis and the war of extermination. Documentation [with reference to: Neuer Griesheimer Anzeiger of January 7, January 9 and January 12, 1937]; accessed August 15, 2020.

Remarks

1. ↑ Until 1934: Nauheim b Groß-Gerau (Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of January 20, 1934, No. 5. Announcement No. 39, p. 17).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://images.zeno.org/Roell-1912/I/big/Ro09246a.jpg and https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/readingmode/15244658_1912/48/LOG_0050/ (via https: / /www.walter-kuhl.de/riedbahn/hauptbahnhof/gleisanlagen1912.htm )
2. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of June 18, 1938, No. 29. Announcement No. 396, p. 172.
3. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
4. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
5. ^ Concessions document of January 3, 1856 for the construction of a railway from Mainz to Aschaffenburg and Mainz to Bingen. In: Peter Scheffler: The railway in the Mainz - Wiesbaden area . Eisenbahn-Kurier Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-620-X , pp. 144-147.
6. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes of April 29, 1899. Volume 3, No. 19. Announcement No. 204, p. 148.
7. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 28, 1905, No. 5. Announcement No. 52, p. 38.
8. ↑ Railway Directions District Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from February 2, 1907, No. 6. Announcement No. 57, p. 67.
9. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of July 10, 1909, No. 36. Announcement No. 495, p. 356.
10. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of May 16, 1914, No. 25. Announcement No. 283, p. 165.
11. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of July 17, 1937, No. 39. Announcement No. 465, p. 230.
12. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 41 .
13. ↑ HLB takes over line RB 75 on Sunday - modern trains on the route . In: DA-imNetz.de , December 7, 2018
14. ↑ Kuhl.
15. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of March 20, 1937, No. 16. News - Rewards and Awards, p. 98.
16. ↑ Kuhl.
17. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of April 10, 1937, No. 21. Nachrichten, p. 121.