Appenweier–Strasbourg railway
The railway line Appenweier- Strasbourg is the main railway line that connects the French TGV station of Strasbourg to the German Rhine Valley line or the new and upgraded line Karlsruhe -Basel ( between Station Offenburg and Baden-Baden station ). The route is almost entirely electrified double track and complete.
The railway line is now one of the two railway lines between Baden- Württemberg and Alsace, on which there are regular train services. All other links are completely shut down. Only over the Rhine bridge at Neuchâtel in South Baden held sporadic freight and regular rail passenger transport. Transport relation, it acts as the connection of Kehl and Strasbourg, the capital of the region and Europe as a branch or branch line of the North - South railway, but simultaneously represents a crucial, cross-border link between the European Axis Paris -Budapest
Under the name POS south route between Kehl and Appenweier is upgraded to a top speed of up to 160 km / hr. Expansion plans for 200 km / h were withdrawn in 2011.
- 3.1 Highway
- 3.2 transport
Route and track construction
The railway leaves the Rhine Valley line between Offenburg and Baden -Baden north or south of the station in Appenweier (previously only the south ). After Kehl Train Station crosses the line of the Rhine and thus the German -French border.
History
The route from Appenweier the French border was built in 1861 by the Baden State Railways. The Rhine Valley line between Offenburg and Baden -Baden had been 17 years earlier completed as a part of the Baden Mainline.
POS South
On 22 May 1992 the Minister of Transport of Germany and France agreed on the implementation of high-speed railway axis Paris - East France - South Germany (POS). Under the title POS south route between Kehl and Appenweier it will be expanded as LGV Est européenne allocation to a top speed of 200 km / h.
The end of 1999 it was announced that the upgrading of the line will not begin until 2010. The total planned expenditure totals 300 million D-Mark.
Federal government and railway closed on 16 July 2007 from a service and financing agreement for a first stage of construction in the amount of 51 million euros. Including, inter alia, the construction of the two-pronged Kehl bridge, the construction of an electronic signal box in Kehl and the upgrading of the West head of the station throat for 160 km / h is planned. In addition to these measures purely funded by the federal government, DB Netz is working to eliminate remaining height level crossings. Because of time delays, the European Union underlined the fall of 2010 from the originally planned 27 million euro means 3.5 million euros.
The Kehl bridge until 2010 with only 50 km / h to drive, the fillet station at 100 km / h, and the following, 14 km long stretch to Appenweier largely with 140 km / h After the construction was completed on the Rhine bridge and the speed for transits by fillet to 160 km / h was raised, are only from the elimination of ten railroad crossings and other measures to raise the speed limit to 160 to 200 km / h. After completion of the work, the travel time in this stretch of nine to shorten to six minutes. For the Karlsruhe curve, the high-speed threading of the track in the Rhine Valley line, the regional planning process was completed in 1994. If and when the threading is implemented, is open.
The project is divided into five zoning sections ( PfA ): the construction of the bridge over the Rhine ( PfA 1) to the west side of the station throat, the reconstruction of the east of the station Kehl ( PfA 2 ), line improvements in the area of cork ( PfA 3), the expansion between cork and the junction with the A5 ( PfA 4) and the so-called Karlsruhe curve ( PfA 5). The track should be equipped for electronic signal box with ETCS. The end of 2007, the estimated total cost, including the new Kehl bridge at 140 million euros.
From mid- 2014 to mid-2015 the fillet station to be rebuilt.
The completion of the now estimated at 173 million euro expansion project is not foreseeable (as of December 2013).
Alternative leadership over the Rhine bridge at winter village
In view of the resistance to the expansion of Appenweierer curve ( a planned Überwerfungsbauwerk the village would share ) rehabilitation and expansion of the winter villages Rhine crossing was proposed. This could be one hour and in Stuttgart / Munich speed up the long-distance transport between France and Germany in Mannheim / Frankfurt by 40 minutes.
Operation
Long-distance traffic
The completed on 20 September 2006 LGV Est européenne brought the timetable change on 10 June 2007 Changes for local and long-distance transport with it. It traveled for the first time since TGV trains the track. In addition, the transport links from Offenburg to Strasbourg improved.
The long-distance trains depart from Strasbourg coming over the " Appenweier curve " on the mainline route north to Baden -Baden. Currently operate four daily TGV train pairs ( KBS 72) on the German side to Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (once a day extended to Munich central station) and be bound on the French side to Paris Gare de l' Est. These trains stop only in Strasbourg, but not in Kehl.
Additionally, upside until December 2013 daily Intercity train pair between Strasbourg and Munich Central Station, which continued in Kehl station. The Euro Night " Orient- Express", which combined with Strasbourg Vienna Westbahnhof and also held in Kehl ( KBS N26 ), was deleted in December 2009.
Transport
In addition to the international long-distance traffic is the route by local trains ( KBS 719, called " Europe Train " ) traveled. Since the commissioning of the high-speed line between Paris and eastern France on 10 June 2007, the SNCF has agreed to finance a significant improvement of the public transport supply between Offenburg and Strasbourg. The German side took part on the short section between Kehl and the border bridge in the middle of these improvements.
Many of the features that were previously only wrong between Offenburg and Kehl the border station, are now bound by to the TGV station of Strasbourg, which at peak hours on working days results in a half-hour between Offenburg and Strasbourg. Instead formerly 24 trains that ran between Offenburg and Strasbourg, drive today weekdays 42, however, did not change the Weekend connections.
Since the timetable change in June 2007, the continuous transport links via Strasbourg beyond French territory to Saarbruecken largely fell away, so that the train route Offenburg- Strasbourg today is the usual path for most of the traits. On weekends and evenings, there are, however, some OSB trains from / to Freudenstadt runs non-stop and primarily serve the tourist traffic.
The transport services are provided by three different railway companies: operate as a regional train, both trains of Deutsche Bahn AG and the SNCF. These are performed with the French DMUs X 73900, which apart from the French also about the German security technology. In addition to the regional trains of SNCF and German train mainly runs the Ortenau S-Bahn ( OSB) with regional shuttles.