Talgangbahn

Albstadt-Ebingen-Onstmettingen
Course book range :	767
Route length:	8.24 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Tübingen -0.70 -0.40 Transfer track 0.00 Albstadt - Ebingen 722 m to Sigmaringen 0.15 Häringstein Viaduct (275 m) 0.65 Ebingen Haringstein 1.50 Ebingen high school 735 m 3.05 Truchtelfingen 752 m 3.70 Truchtelfingen Holdertal 761 m 4.30 Tailfingen gasworks 4.50 Adolff yarns 4.98 Tailfingen 786 m Parcel post 5.25 Neuweilerstrasse (L 442) 5.56 Tailfingen Church 788 m 6.05 Tailfingen school center 788 m 6.40 Tailfingen Buchtal 6.65 Sawmill Johann Ammann Sons 8.24 Onstmettingen 802 m

The Talgangbahn was a 8.24 kilometer long standard gauge private railway line on the Swabian Alb in the south of Baden-Württemberg , which was owned by the Württembergische Eisenbahngesellschaft (WEG). The route has belonged to the Zollernalb district since 2012.

history

Häringstein Viaduct 1907

Häringstein Viaduct 2005

The valley railway was built by the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and opened on July 14, 1901. As early as 1902, 100,000 people and 15,000 tons of goods were transported. The stone arch viaduct in Ebingen , which leads in an arch through the city center, is a remarkable building of the valley walkway . This unfavorable routing of the route and the fact that the location of the Ebingen train station and the tracks would hinder the further economic development of Ebingen led to a planning study in 1911 for the relocation of the train station in the direction of the cemetery. The then Ebingen city architect Leo Schrein combined with his planning of a new train station in the guise of "In the lower meadows" at the same time a new threading of the valley walkway into the Zollernalbbahn in a south-easterly direction that bypasses the city center. At the same time, space would be created for an enlarged freight yard and the threading of a planned Heubergbahn to Nusplingen.

After the WEG-KVG set up its own bus line on the main road that ran parallel to the railway, passenger transport on the railway remained almost exclusively school traffic; the train times were therefore coordinated with school times. On school-free days, driving was idle. Passenger traffic ceased on July 31, 1998. The goods traffic of the local textile industry decreased more and more and was increasingly converted to trucks and completely stopped on December 31, 1999, the route was then closed, but not de-dedicated.

Vehicle use

Initially, two three-axle steam locomotives and four passenger cars built by Borsig in Berlin were available. In the 1920s, these locomotives were replaced by the more powerful wet steam locomotives . Although the route was primarily intended for freight traffic, five passenger trains with up to seven passenger cars also ran from the start. Most recently, the WEG operated the route with its own diesel railcars . A locomotive shed was available to them at the Onstmettingen terminus.

Reactivation efforts

Earth sacks on the track

In mid-October 2002 the Albstadt municipal council rejected negotiations with the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn about reactivation by 22 to 17 votes . The reason for this was high costs, as the community had to acquire the facilities from WEG and, in particular, modernize the level crossings. The reactivation is still under discussion, the line is also included in the concept of a Neckar-Alb regional light rail . On October 22, 2012, the district council decided to purchase the route for 13,000 euros. In preparation for the regional light rail concept, surveying work was carried out on the route in October 2013. On July 21, 2014, further compatibility assessments were commissioned by the district council of the Zollernalb district. In 2014 a short piece was symbolically cut free.

Web links

Commons : Talgangbahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the route ( memento from March 23, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
• The valley lift at Bahninfos-Bw
• Current pictures of the route at Forgotten Bahnen
• Information about the re-commissioning plans of the city of Albstadt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gert Ungurenu: route. In: Schwarzwälder Bote from October 23, 2012.
2. ^ Zollern-Alb-Kurier on August 1, 2008
3. ↑ Wilfried Groh: Stuttgart stops dreams ( memento of the original from June 6, 2014 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. In: Zollern-Alb-Kurier from June 3, 2014.
4. ↑ Karina Eyrich: High time for the Talgangbahn . In: Schwarzwälder Bote from January 22, 2012.
5. ↑ RegioStadtbahn Albstadt
6. ↑ Message off for Talgang cable car . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 1/2003, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 8.
7. ↑ RegioStadtbahn Albstadt
8. ↑ Roth: The district tries to get a valley runway . In: Schwarzwälder Bote from October 17, 2013.
9. ↑ Cautious euphoria asked ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 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. . In: Zollern-Alb-Kurier of July 23, 2014. 
10. ↑ Müller: For the first time in 16 years there is train traffic again . In: Schwarzwälder Bote from October 22, 2014.