Railway line Laupheim West – Schwendi
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_and_Laupheim.JPG) Railway line between Laupheim West and Laupheim City
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| Route number (DB) : | 4510 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 751 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 16.02 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 17 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 200 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Laupheim West – Schwendi line is a single-track branch line in Baden-Württemberg . The route today only partially in service branches at the station Laupheim West from the railway line Ulm-Friedrichshafen and led to Schwendi . The steam trains that used to run on the route to Schwendi were colloquially called "Rottalmolle" after the river Rot .
history
The line was opened on May 17, 1904 by the Royal Württemberg State Railways .
In 1963 seven pairs of trains ran Monday to Friday on the entire route, plus another seven pairs of trains between Laupheim West and Laupheim. On Sundays, only rail buses operated as replacement rail services .
On the Laupheim Stadt – Schwendi section, passenger traffic was shut down on May 23, 1971 and freight traffic on September 28, 1984; then the tracks were dismantled.
The section Laupheim West – Laupheim City, on which passenger traffic had been carried out until May 27, 1983, was reactivated on May 30, 1999. Continuous connections are offered from the north, regional trains run every hour to and from Ulm .
From June 2009 to June 2011, the so-called Südkurve Laupheim, a new connecting curve to the Südbahn was built in order to be able to offer continuous trains from the direction of Biberach an der Riss . It went into operation on June 12, 2011. The Laupheim Stadt stop was expanded into a train station with two tracks. Freight traffic took place until 2012.
The route to the Laupheim Stadt train station has been electrified since spring 2018 as part of the “South Railway Electrification” project. The overhead line is scheduled to go into operation in 2021.
gallery
Route from a bird's eye view on a postcard by Eugen Felle , 1911
Laupheim city railway station 1904
Former railway bridge near Bronnen
literature
- Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 245-249 .
Web links
- Forgotten railways: Laupheim Stadt – Schwendi (photo documentation of the condition in February 2007)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Schumacher: Press release - Ceremonial opening of the new Laupheim Stadt– (Südkurve) –Biberach (Riss) line on June 11, 2011. (No longer available online.) DB Mobility Logistics AG, June 8, 2011, archived from the original on June 6 , 2011 June 2011 ; Retrieved December 19, 2016 .