Fellbach station
- Rems Railway ( KBS 786, KBS 790.2-3 )
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Fellbach Train Station is located at kilometer 6.2 of the Rems Railway and is a station in the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn.
- 2.1 S -Bahn
History
State Railway time
During construction of the Rems Railway advised the Royal Württemberg State Railways in 1861 as the only station between Cannstatt and Waiblingen on the Schmidener a field station for Fellbach. He was at that time about one and a half kilometers north of Fellbach and about one and a half kilometers south of Schmiden ( Fellbach ), to the district border of the two municipalities. Even before the construction of the railway was one of Fellbach almost 3,000 inhabitants and was one of the largest villages in the country.
On July 25, 1861 the opening of the Remsthalbahn took place. The station building has been preserved and is still used as such. It was built from light sandstone and has two full floors and a knee wall. Windows and doors on the ground floor are provided with round arches.
Between 1862 and 1869 the newly established post office used with the building. Then she was transferred to the Stuttgart Beer Street. 1864 took the state railway, a second main track from Cannstatt to Fellbach in operation.
The volume of traffic steadily increased, as did the number of inhabitants of Fellbach and Schmiden, both of which grew in the direction of the station.
Reichsbahn
The German Reichsbahn enlarged the station 1923-1925. It was designed for the traveler a platform underpass.
In the late 1920s, the city of Stuttgart tried to the incorporation Fellbach. On 4 May 1929, the Stuttgart trams extended its route network to Fellbacher Luther Church. This went on for some commuters a long -cherished wish, as the new transport center saved the way to the station. This felt the Reichsbahn: At the annual balance sheet, 1928, the number of passengers was 337 868 persons by 1932 this total fell to 228 417.
In October 1931, the council was negotiating with a representative of the Stuttgart City Council. As a condition of incorporation, the town councils called for, among other things, the extension of the tram to the train station, the closure of the level crossing in favor of a passage at the end of Bahnhofstrasse, as well as a rapid transit connection in Stuttgart- Fellbach.
Beyond these and other receivables advised the Stuttgart municipal council and rejected the contract for the proposed on April 1, 1932 incorporation on March 8, 1932 from. Fellbach remained independent and got - now counting over 11,000 inhabitants - until then as " the largest village in Württemberg ", awarded city rights on 29 October 1933.
Federal Railroad Time
On 2 October 1949, the German Federal Railway electrified the stretch - Bad Cannstatt Waiblingen. Thus began the electric suburban service between Stuttgart and Waiblingen. 1959 was a member of the wait at the level crossing of the railway station road the past, when an underpass was completed.
On 1 January 1973 Schmiden was incorporated after Fellbach and Schmiden had grown together over decades to reach the station.
Between the years 1979 and 1981 the station underwent in the course of expansion measures for the S -Bahn extensive track schedule changes, so the distance between Waiblingen and Bad Cannstatt was expanded to four tracks. At the eastern station head over a control center and continue towards Waiblingen was built a Überwerfungsbauwerk to unthread the Murr train in regular service from the Bad Cannstatt coming, operated in the direction of operation range.
The expansion of the station and the subsequent sections was part of the second execution Treaty Stuttgart S-Bahn, which was closed in 1975.
Railway operation
The station is served by the lines S 2 and S 3 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. On track 1, on the main platform, keep the S-Bahn direction Waiblingen. Track 2 is used by by moving trains towards Waiblingen and has no platform. On track 3 hold no scheduled trains more, the track used by the moving trains in eastern direction. On track 4, the S- Bahn trains stop towards Bad Cannstatt. The Platform loose track 5 serves trains towards Bad Cannstatt as a passing siding.
Fellbach Train corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 3 He has a relay interlocking type DRS60 and is now in a remote location of Wailblingen from.