Erfurt S-Bahn
S-Bahn Erfurt was a slang term for a rail connection in the Thuringian capital Erfurt that existed from 1976 to 1993 . The term S-Bahn is occasionally used in popular literature. Other contemporary media used terms such as “suburban transport at local transport tariffs”. When the line was introduced in 1976, only the "push-pull train service" on this line was highlighted as a special feature. In the course book tables of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the terms "S-Bahn" or "S-Bahn tariff" were not used for this line. Another slang term for the connection was Riethschleuder .
Route description
Starting from Erfurt main station , the line ran in a semicircle north and east around the inner city area. It used the Wolkramshausen – Erfurt line to get to Erfurt Nord station . There it branched off to the west and opened up the new development areas in the north of Erfurt using the route of the former Erfurt – Nottleben small railway . The four stations served were the Erfurt Hbf and Erfurt Nord train stations, the former Erfurt Györer Straße stop and the former terminus Erfurt Berliner Straße. The travel time over the entire route was 13 to 14 minutes.
Operation and history
The construction of the new Rieth area in the north of the city of Erfurt made it necessary to connect this district to the city center. The existing Erfurt tram and the complementary bus lines offered by the Erfurt public transport company were no longer able to meet the growing demand for transport at peak times. Since the track of the former small train to Nottleben ran directly through the residential area, the plan arose to set up a rail connection between the north of the city and Erfurt main train station to relieve the local traffic .
Since all the track systems were already in place, only two new stations had to be built. The connection was opened on May 13, 1976 after a construction period of only three months. The route length was 8.6 kilometers, of which 2.7 kilometers on the route of the former small railway. In the course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the line was listed under table 642. There was no regular schedule . The trains only ran during rush hour . Eight (1985) and nine (1990) pairs of trains commuted on the route on weekdays. Half of the trains only ran to or from Erfurt Nord. There was a connection to trains in the direction of Erfurt Hauptbahnhof. Traffic was idle on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
The only feature of an S-Bahn was the independent tariff . Instead of the kilometer tariff generally used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn , a flat rate was applied. Single tickets were available in advance at a price of 0.20 marks . They had on the platform before boarding the trains canceled are. They were sold at the Erfurt Hauptbahnhof and Erfurt Nord train stations. However, the special tariff was abolished shortly after reunification, that is, before the line was closed.
After the political changes in 1989 and 1990 , the population's transport needs changed. In particular, the traffic peaks in rush hour traffic were evened out. As the tram travel times to the main train station were similarly long and significantly shorter in the direction of the city center, a separate rail connection was no longer necessary. The link was thinned and discontinued in May 1995. Finally, two pairs of trains ran each day. In 2003 the Erfurt North – Erfurt-Marbach line was shut down by the Federal Railway Authority . The renovation work on the Mittelhäuser Kreuz in 2012 meant that Mittelhäuser Strasse was partially renovated and the track of the former level crossing was also removed.
In preparation for the Federal Garden Show 2021 in Erfurt, the idea came up in 2015 to revitalize the route in order to bring visitors from Erfurt main station to the Geraaue. Alternative ideas would be a bike path or use as a draisine route.
vehicles
Used came bunk - pull trains that of locomotives of the DR-110 series were drawn: (202 series from 1992). This made it possible to dispense with the construction of a transfer track at the end of the line.
literature
- Günther Barthel: The history of the Kleinbahn Erfurt (West) –Nottleben . 1st edition 2001, Verlag Rockstuhl, ISBN 3-934748-29-5
Web links
- Erfurt-Nord – Nottleben on vergierter-bahnen.de
- S-Bahn Erfurt on bahninfo.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Joachim Kirsche and Hans Müller: Eisenbahnatlas DDR , VEB Tourist Verlag Berlin - Leipzig, 2nd edition 1988, ISBN 3-350-00293-5 , p. 90
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Kirsche, Bahnland DDR , transpress, VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-344-00288-0 , p. 174
- ↑ a b Dr. Thomas Mette, October 7, 1979 - 30 years of the GDR in dates and events at the Deutsche Reichsbahn , Eisenbahn-Jahrbuch 1979, Transpress, reprinted in: Horst Regling (Hrsg.), Eisenbahnverkehr in der DDR, Volume III , transpress, Stuttgart, 2002 , ISBN 3-613-71186-9
- ^ A b c course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, domestic traffic, summer timetable 1980
- ↑ a b c d course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, inland traffic, annual timetable 1989/90
- ↑ Domspitzen dictionary ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ List of the federally-owned lines in the state of Thuringia that have been closed since 1994 ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Federal Railway Office.
- ↑ Birgit Kummer: Road of the Nations until December 5th construction site . In: Thüringer Allgemeine Zeitung , Erfurt local section, November 2, 2011.
- ↑ Frank Karmeyer: "Riethschleuder" is revived as a Buga idea . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , Erfurt local section, July 31, 2015.
