Seelze marshalling yard
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '24 " N , 9 ° 36' 48" E
Seelze marshalling yard (abbreviated: Seelze Rbf) is a marshalling yard in Seelze near Hanover . He is a hub for rail freight an important marshalling yard with about 3,000 daily ranged freight cars .
location
The Seelze marshalling yard is located west of Hanover at the crossroads of north-south and east-west train connections. It is connected to the Hanover freight bypass . If required, entry and exit on the passenger train journey on the Hanover – Minden railway line is also possible.
history
The station was laid out as part of the construction of the Hanover freight bypass to relieve the Hanover-Hainholz marshalling yard. It was built from 1906 to 1909 and commissioned on April 1, 1909. It had two independent systems, each with an entry group, drainage mountain, direction group and exit group: east-west and west-east. The station was designed for 6,000 freight cars a day. It once had 400 points and twelve signal boxes with 90 km of track. The concentration in train formation and the closure of other marshalling yards such as Lehrte and Hannover-Hainholz made it the only marshalling yard in the Hanover region . The facilities were constantly modernized, and at the end of the 1960s, the process computer control in Seelze, the cybernetic island, was the first DB marshalling yard to enter the shunting service.
Current condition
The Seelze marshalling yard is known as HSR. The Seelze depot is attached to the station.
The marshalling yard, with the Maschen , Gremberg , Mannheim and Nuremberg marshalling yards , is one of the five largest train formation yards for freight trains operated by DB AG.
The entire marshalling yard extends over a length of 5.5 kilometers and a width of 350 meters. There are a total of 135 km of tracks and 510 points, controlled by seven signal boxes. There are even some form signals that are operated from electro-mechanical interlockings.
The west-east system has 34, the east-west system 18 directional tracks. The performance of the west-east system is around 200 cars per hour. The east-west system was last renewed in 2004, the west-east system two years later and brought up to date technically. Since then, maneuvering has been largely computer-controlled.
Track brakes on a slope brake the wagons or groups of wagons individually. In the direction tracks, the wagons are pushed together by rope-operated return conveyor systems so that they can be coupled to one another. While the output was 8,000 cars per day at peak times, it is still half that today. On the other hand, the transport volume of the wagons has increased considerably, so that the daily tonnage has increased. In the meantime, Seelze has also taken over all local functions of the other Hanoverian marshalling yards, with the exception of Hanover-Linden.
Approach group west from the west
Entry group west with south bypass
Direction group east-west
literature
- Eisenbahnfreunde Hannover (Hrsg.): The railway in Hannover . Zimmer, Augsburg 1969.
- Museum Association for the City of Seelze eV (Ed.): 100 years of the Seelze shunting yard. Seelze 2009.
