Berlin–Görlitz railway
The railway line Berlin- Görlitz is a major railway in Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony, which was originally built and operated by the Berlin- Görlitz railway company. Takes you from Berlin Cottbus to Görlitz. The section from Berlin to Cottbus is electrified.
Course
The route runs from Berlin, via Kingswells, Lubben, Cottbus, Spremberg, white water and Horka to Görlitz. They originally started at Görlitz Bahnhof in Berlin, one in 1962 demolished railway terminus. Today, the trains coming from the Berlin city and ring road. The route continues through the fantastic landscapes south of Berlin Spreewald, Muskau Arch and Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond area by the Lower and Upper Lusatia to the railway junction in Görlitz.
Only from Berlin- Schoeneweide Lübbenau is the distance double track, it is also electrified in this section and up to Cottbus. Only in the area of the railway station King Wusterhausen represents both directions without such a Streckengleis available.
The continuation of the line in Görlitz is the Neisse Valley Railway towards Zittau. The original was continued until 1945 along the railway line Görlitz - Seidenberg to the former Prussian- Austrian border.
History
See also Main article: Berlin- Görlitz railway company
The track was built as a general contractor by the "railway king" Bethel Henry Strousberg and people and opens freight for the years 1866/1867. In 1882 it passed into the ownership of the State of Prussia, and thus became part of the Prussian state railways.
On August 7, 1905, came between Spremberg and loop after a driving service error to a head-on collision between two trains that killed 19 people and 40 others were seriously injured.
Around 1906 the entire railway line of the Görlitz line was highly placed in the Berlin area to avoid at level crossings with road transport. In this context, additional tracks were laid between Berlin (city and circle line ) and for the strong Grunau Berlin suburb traffic. The railway stations in the Berlin area received additional platforms at these suburban tracks, platforms in Zeuthen (1897, formerly Hankel shelf) and calibration Walde ( 1898) were moved to the suburban tracks. These were given to 1929 busbars and since part of the Berlin S- Bahn network. 1951, the S- Bahn tracks were extended until King Wusterhausen.
As reparation one of the two main lines were degraded after 1945. From 1970 began gradually the replacement of the second track, yet the majority of the route on a length of 112.9 km between Lübbenau and Görlitz is still single track.
1952 Görlitz Bahnhof in Berlin was closed for passenger traffic, freight traffic until 1986 still existed. Lübbenau and 1989 Lübbenau - - 1988, the portion of Berlin Gruenauer Cottbus cross was electrified with catenary.
In February 2010, the two-track, electrified Ostanbindung of the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER ) was established plan and already completed a year later. It opens with a single-track north and south connecting curve at the same level in the Görlitz line between Eichwalde and Grunau. The old freight line to the tank farm Berlin- Schönefeld Airport South ( " fuel rail " ), which began on Grunau station was commissioned at the end of March 2011 out of service and subsequently degraded. The operation of the tank farm and the BER concrete work done since then to the new tracks of the Ostanbindung, the siding west of Highway 113 branches off and is electrified up to the transfer station.
In a communication dated July 23, 2012 presented the Federal Railway Authority the disused railway areas of the Görlitz line between the Landwehr canal and rail network ( 0.9-2.2 km ) of railway operations free. It is 45,000 square feet in the district of Treptow- Köpenick.
Upgrading of the
ABS Berlin- Görlitz
The expansion of the route is included in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003 as urgent requirement. The Berlin-Görlitz line project seem to be in the doubling between Lübbenau and Cottbus, raising the line speed to 160 km / h, and the electrification of the section Cottbus- Görlitz ago with a planned investment of 237.9 million euros.
2008 Part Lübbenau - Cottbus was renovated and prepared for a speed of 160 km / hr. In Vetschau of an electronic interlocking ( CBI -A ) was established, which is connected to the electronic interlocking Z Lübbenau. End of November 2010 was followed by another electronic interlocking in Cottbus, whose costs amounted to 50 million euros. It replaced 13 old signal boxes and is remotely controlled from the control center in Berlin- Pankow.
Between May 2010 and ( according to original planning) in late April 2011, the 60 km long section King Wusterhausen - Lübbenau followed. The track and overhead line systems were completely renovated as part of a full closure. New Electronic interlockings were built in King Wustershausen and Lübbenau. Several bog bodies made it difficult to work. The reopening of the route then delayed, including through repeated theft cable until September 2011. Timetable change on 11 December 2011, the line speed between King Wustershausen and Cottbus at 160 km / h could be raised.
The expansion could be brought forward by the use of funds from the economic stimulus programs of the federal government. A total of 130 million euros were invested for these measures.
A date for the electrification of the section between Cottbus and Görlitz is currently not foreseeable.
Fundamental renewal in the Berlin area
On 12 July 2006, the groundbreaking ceremony for the renovation of the line between basic redesign of the Berlin ring road and King Wusterhausen including the branch to Berlin- Schönefeld airport was made in the course of the project Grunderneuerung S- Bahn Berlin, S9 South. This relates not only to the plants of the S -Bahn and the parallel mainline tracks in this section. This includes the complete construction of the S-Bahn stations Adlershof and Baumschulenweg in a different location, the renovation of the station Beautiful pasture and the renewal of seven railway bridges, including the construction of new tied arch bridges over the Britz connecting channel and the Teltow Canal to broaden the waterways. Furthermore, the renewal of the tracks, the establishment of electronic interlockings and the basic renovation of power supply including substations and overhead line equipment is provided. The S-Bahn station Wildau is disabled and expanded by the establishment of a second track to the junction station. The planned cost is 350 million euros. After completion of works the line speed for the S -Bahn from 80 to 100 km / h should be increased.
Completed the work on the stations Baumschulenweg and Adlershof and the renewal of bridges over the Britz connecting channel and the Teltow Canal. Work on the station Wildau have begun and will be completed in September 2013.
The last big project within the framework of the renewal of the Görlitz line in Berlin began work on the modernization of the station Berlin- Schoeneweide in March 2013. The bridges over the star dam and the station platform to be renewed, modernized the reception building and designed the northern forecourt new. A total of 45 million euros will be invested in this conversion. Construction is expected to be completed by 2018.
The re- commissioning of the constructional reasons interrupted mainline tracks between east cross and Beautiful pasture is planned timetable change in December 2014. In October 2012, the German railway wrote of this construction work of renewing the track and overhead line equipment between east cross and Gruenauer cross.
The 48 -acre site of the former marshalling yard and railway depot Schoeneweide to be a new use supplied in the form of a business park. For this purpose, it is planned to vacate the area and develop and to lay three kilometers away from the city leading the mainline track and cancel some of the buildings. A new foot and cycle bridge to 96a connect the landscape park Johannistal with the Köllnischen heath across the railway line and the main road. The S -Bahn stop " operation Schöneweide " is then also be reached from the Johannisthaler side.
Today's train operations
Today the route is mainly used for passenger services, as the Berlin S -Bahn on the Berlin- Plänterwald section - Gruenauer Cross is currently the only transport on the Görlitz line.
On Holy Cross Auer then come the lines RE2 added the DB Regio ( Wismar - Berlin - Cottbus ) and RB36 (Berlin- Lichtenberg - Beeskow - Frankfurt / Oder) of East Railway and the RB14 ( Senftenberg Nauen - - Berlin). While the regional train RB14 stops at all stations between King Wustershausen and Lübbenau, the Regional Express RE2 only to serve the intermediate stations on fire ( Lower Lusatia ) and in Lubben. In Lübbenau the line branches off from RB14 on the railway line from Lübbenau to Kamenz in Senftenberg, while the Regional Express RE2 continuing along the Görlitz line to Cottbus and it stops at all stations. The RB36 holds only in King Wusterhausen at the Görlitz line and goes from there to the railway king Wusterhausen - Grunow in Frankfurt ( Oder).
DB Regio continues to operate the line of RB14 ( Nauen - Senftenberg ), which will serve the loop about the new airport railway station after the completion of the new airport Berlin Brandenburg.
On the section Cottbus - Görlitz, on line OE65 ( Cottbus - Zittau ) of the East German railway, which replaced the Lausitzbahn the timetable change on 14 December 2008. In addition, an inter-city train pair associate (North dike Mole - Cottbus ) and a Euro - City train pair (Hamburg - Cottbus - Kraków) Wawel on the route.
In the section of Berlin -Schönefeld pasture - King Wusterhausen drove up to the timetable change in December 2011, in addition to the S -Bahn and the regional railway line OE 36 (Berlin- Schoeneweide - Beeskow - Frankfurt / Oder), by the private East German Railways ( ODEG ) is operated. Thereafter, the regional station Schoeneweide has been locked due to construction and the OE 36 (since December 2012 RB 36 ) runs since then from Berlin- Lichtenberg and reaches the Görlitz line only at Gruenauer cross.
Berlin area
In the city of Berlin, the Görlitz line for the most part is still in operation. Only the short section between the Berlin ring road and the former Görlitz station is interrupted since 1952 and was later demolished. The route is well served by long-distance and regional trains as well as the Berlin S-Bahn, but the navigate different sections.
The remote tracks run today up to the interface with the circle line at Treptower Park, then swing to the eastern ring road east cross over and continues to be on healthy well or leave the ring road via a branch north of the station to east cross Lichtenberg station. The regional traffic starts but only in Schoeneweide station as the track on the east cross is not passable due to construction work. Trains running to and from the new central train station are on the Holy Cross Auer led already in the southeast of Berlin on the outer ring and then out to the rail on the Silesian railway. On the route of the light rail are also the East and the Central Station.
Although the Görlitz line had its own suburban tracks, but this never led to the terminus of the route, but were led from the start to the ring or rail. This condition is still like that. In addition to the ring connector on the Treptower Park, there is also a connection to the south ring, which leaves the main line in Baumschulenweg and runs over Köllnische Heath to south ring. Both routes - the suburban railway and the connecting train - 1929 were converted to electric operation and since then traveled from the S -Bahn.