Stuttgart-Untertürkheim – Kornwestheim railway line

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Stuttgart-Untertürkheim-Kornwestheim
Route number (DB) :	4720
Course book section (DB) :	790.11
Route length:	11.495 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	10  ‰
Minimum radius :	350 m
Top speed:	100 km / h
Dual track :	Stg-Utürkhm Pbf - Stg-Zazenhausen
Legend from Ulm from Stuttgart harbor 0.000 Stuttgart-Untertürkheim Pbf 229  m to Stuttgart Hbf 0.800 Stuttgart - Untertürkheim Gbf 226  m to Stuttgart Nürnberger Straße Abzw Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt-Nördlingen railway line 3.005 Stuttgart Ebitzweg 234  m 4.300 Viaduct Stuttgart-Münster (855 m) Stuttgart light rail Neckar Münster – Cannstatt industrial railway Stuttgart light rail 5.209 Stuttgart-Munster 251  m Münster – Cannstatt industrial railway 6.600 Schnarrenberg tunnel (272.2 m) 7.720 Stuttgart-Zazenhausen Hp 273  m 7.900 Stuttgart-Zazenhausen 8.100 Feuerbach Viaduct (266 m) 8,897 Stuttgart-Zazenhausen 1 (Bft from Zuffenhsn) 291  m to Mannheim to Kornwestheim Rbf from Stuttgart 11.495 Kornwestheim Pbf 301  m to Würzburg 1 formerly Abzw Lerchenberg Swell:

The Stuttgart-Untertürkheim-Kornwestheim railway line (also known locally as the Schusterbahn ) is an 11.495 kilometer long freight bypass railway . The double-track electrified main line connects Stuttgart-Untertürkheim with Kornwestheim and serves as a bypass line primarily for freight traffic to bypass Stuttgart main station . In the course book she has the number 790.11.

history

Untertürkheim railway station 1898

Cannstatt around 1900, in the foreground the Rosenstein Bridge , in the background the König-Wilhelm-Viadukt

Schnarrenberg tunnel

The name “Schusterbahn” came about through the Salamander works in Kornwestheim. The passenger trains ran mainly for their and employees of the railway between Untertürkheim and Kornwestheim, both places of residence for many railway workers, and in earlier times stopped in Kornwestheim not in the passenger station, but in the old marshalling yard to the east , the remains of which were only added to the passenger station after its independence.

The line was opened on September 30, 1896 with the inauguration of the train station in Stuttgart-Münster in order to bypass the Stuttgart main train station. Before that, all freight trains had to turn around in Stuttgart Central Station , as the previous building of the main station was just like this a terminus station .

When it opened on October 1, 1896, the line was single-track, with the substructure and engineering structures already being prepared for a second track. Due to increasing traffic volumes, the government brought in on January 23, 1902 the demand to provide one million marks for the construction of the second track. In the winter of 1901/1902 around 50 freight and five passenger trains ran every day. Various laws from 1902, 1903 and 1905 approved a total of 1.8 million marks for the project. On September 23, 1904, the second track was put into operation. In 1933 the line was also electrified and integrated into the Stuttgart suburb traffic .

outlook

The route is to be integrated into the Stuttgart digital node by 2030 and equipped with digital interlockings , ETCS and automated driving . Initially, it is planned to equip the section between Münster and Untertürkheim with ETCS Level 2 "with signals" by 2025 . Equipment "without signals" was dispensed with because freight trains were not yet equipped with ETCS.

A progressive scenario of a traffic forecast presented in 2020 for the year 2030 envisages two trains per hour on the Kornwestheim - Untertürkheim - Esslingen - Plochingen line.

In a joint application in May 2020, four parliamentary groups in the Stuttgart region spoke out in favor of running a half-hourly S-Bahn line “S11” Bietigheim – Plochingen over the Schusterbahn. An operating program study is to be submitted by the end of 2020 to clarify the extent to which the train service can be expanded in the short term.

Route

In Untertürkheim, the line branches off from the Filstalbahn ( Stuttgart - Ulm ) and crosses the Untertürkheim freight yard, where it crosses under Bundesstraße 14 . A connecting track enables a direct change to the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt-Nördlingen line from the south; To do this, from the north you have to turn around in the freight yard. In Bad Cannstatt the route leads past the spa gardens. Then it crosses the Neckar in the direction of Münster on the Stuttgart-Münster railway viaduct .

A little after passing the Stuttgart-Münster power station , the railway line leads in the direction of Rot in the Schnarrenberg tunnel through the eastern shoulder of the Schnarrenberg ( 315.7  m ) to the west above the Neckar valley , and shortly afterwards in the direction of Zazenhausen the valley of the Neckar tributary Feuerbach on the Feuerbach -Viaduct to cross. The tracks then flow into the Frankenbahn , the Kornwestheim marshalling yard and the Mannheim – Stuttgart high-speed line shortly after crossing under the B27 .

Buildings

Endurance test of the Zazenhausen viaduct in 1896

Railway viaduct over the Neckar

The over the Neckar leading railway viaduct Stuttgart Minster is 855 m long and 30 m high. It was built in 1896 as the "König-Wilhelm-Viadukt" as an iron framework construction and replaced in 1985 by a new building made of reinforced concrete.

The 272.2 meter long Schnarrenberg tunnel is located between Stuttgart-Münster and Zazenhausen . It was completely renovated from 1999 to 2000 and the brickwork was replaced by a concrete shell.

The 266 meter long Feuerbach viaduct over the Feuerbach was replaced, like the one over the Neckar, around 1980 by a new concrete building located in parallel. The feed routes were relocated. Therefore, the stop at the Zazenhausen train station in the area of ​​the feed had to be relocated to a new stop in the southwest, which is directly at the intersection (underpass) with the U7 line of the Stuttgart city railway . The transfer route to the next stop, Himmelsleiter, is around 200 to 250 meters long.

At the end of 2010, the Ebitzweg stop on the U13 light rail line went into operation. There is a short pedestrian link between the two stations of the same name, which are located next to each other.

traffic

Freight train between Münster and Zazenhausen

Up to 120 freight trains run daily on the freight bypass.

In passenger transport, the R 11 regional train runs on weekdays with three pairs of trains in the early morning and three more in the afternoon (as of: 2020 timetable). They are driven by a class 426 multiple unit operated by DB Regio (S-Bahn Stuttgart) , which was modernized in 2017. In addition, empty trains of the Stuttgart S-Bahn run on schedule on the Schusterbahn. The connection also serves as a diversion route in the event of construction work or disruptions in Stuttgart Central Station. From 1992 to 2006 a pair of ICE Sprinter trains drove over the bypass route as planned.

In 2012, the Stuttgart region checked that passenger traffic ran every hour on this route. In January 2013, the Stuttgart Region Association announced that the route's potential was noticeably low . The municipal council groups rated this differently. So there was only one additional pair of trains in the morning and in the evening.

On January 29, 2018, the transport committee of the Stuttgart Region Association decided to conduct an investigation into a continuous expansion of the quarter-hourly service to external branches of the S-Bahn. In this context, an expansion of the offer on the Schusterbahn is also to be examined. Every half hour, a continuation towards Esslingen / Ludwigsburg / Markgröningen and, alternatively, an extension towards Plochingen and Bietigheim are to be examined. The first results are expected in early 2019.

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  Kornwestheim Pbf

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  Stuttgart-Zazenhausen

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  Stuttgart-Munster train station

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  Stuttgart Ebitzweg

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  Stuttgart-Untertürkheim Pbf

literature

• Andreas M. Räntzsch: Stuttgart and its railways. The development of the railway system in the Stuttgart area . Uwe Siedentop, Heidenheim 1987, ISBN 3-925887-03-2 .
• Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Kraichgau. Railway history between the Rhine and Neckar . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2006, ISBN 3-88255-769-9 .

Web links

Commons : Stuttgart-Untertürkheim – Kornwestheim railway line  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Route, operating points, permitted speeds and some signals of the route on the OpenRailwayMap
• Feuerbach Viaduct
• Excerpt from the course book from 1944

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Andreas M. Räntzsch: The inclusion of Stuttgart in the modern transport through the construction of the railway . Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8300-1958-0 , p. 436 f.
4. ^ Jens Bergmann: Digital node Stuttgart. (PDF) Declaration by DB Netz AG on content and objectives. DB Netz, April 21, 2020, pp. 3, 5 , accessed on April 24, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Michael Kümmling: ETCS Equipment Areas Stuttgart 21. (PDF) In : barkerportal.noncd.db.de. Deutsche Bahn, May 10, 2019, archived from the original on October 21, 2019 ; Retrieved on October 21, 2019 (Annex_03.1.10 _-_ Overview sketch_ETCS equipment stand.pdf in the ZIP archive). 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Marc Behrens, Enrico Eckhardt, Michael Kümmling, Markus Loef, Peter Otrzonsek, Martin Schleede, Max-Leonhard von Schaper, Sven Wanstrath: On the way to the digital node Stuttgart: an overview . In: The Railway Engineer . tape 71 , no. 4 , April 2020, ISSN  0013-2810 , p. 14-18 ( PDF ).
7. ^ Stefan Tritschler, Moritz Biechele: Update of the VRS traffic model. (PDF) Transport Science Institute Stuttgart, January 20, 2020, p. 9 f. , accessed on January 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Intergroup motion to be introduced into the Transport Committee. (PDF) S11 Bietigheim-Plochingen - the new fast express S-Bahn. In: gecms.region-stuttgart.org. May 5, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Further improvements for the S-Bahn. In: region-stuttgart.org. Verband Region Stuttgart , July 9, 2020, accessed on July 9, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Modernized train in use on the Schusterbahn. (No longer available online.) In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, March 16, 2017, archived from the original on March 20, 2017 ; Retrieved March 19, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Hourly service on the Schusterbahn? . Stuttgarter Nachrichten , January 13, 2012.
12. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.nahverkehr-stuttgart-kein-ausbau-der-schusterbahn.436c3ab0-be9b-47f1-9815-6b75b76e3b5e.html
13. ↑ http://www.tagblatt.de/Nachrichten/Regionalammlung-beschliesst-weiter-Abfahrzeiten-von-und-nach-Kornwestheim-107048.html
14. ↑ Klimpel, Bopp: RESULTS PROTOCOL of the 43rd meeting of the Transport Committee on January 29, 2018 in the conference room (5th floor) of the Stuttgart Region Office, Kronenstr. 25. (PDF) Verband Region Stuttgart, January 29, 2018, p. 3 , accessed on February 3, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Definition of the range of services and further procedures for investigations into expanding the S-Bahn service. (PDF) In: vrs.de. Verband Region Stuttgart, December 14, 2017, accessed on February 3, 2018 .