Graben-Neudorf station

• Rheinbahn Mannheim -Karlsruhe
• Railway Waghaeusel Saalbach- Graben-Neudorf
• Bruhrainbahn Germersheim - Bruchsal
• Former Hardt Railway Graben-Neudorf -Karlsruhe

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The station Graben-Neudorf is the focal point of the Baden commune Graben-Neudorf. Of particular importance in the rail comes to him because he is a railway junction. In it, the Rhine Valley line between Mannheim and Basel and the Bruhrainbahn between Bruchsal and Germersheim cross. Also, here branched off the 1895 strategic railway opened and the original Rheinbahn lived as a 1967 decommissioned Hardt Railway ( Graben-Neudorf - Eggenstein - Karlsruhe) on. The train station is included in the train station category 4.

Location and facilities

The station Graben-Neudorf is centrally located between the villages of Neudorf ditch and the community Graben-Neudorf, on the southern edge of the district of Neudorf. The district of Neudorf has grown up on the east side of the railway line through the residential and industrial area mid-east with the associated mall at Heidelberger Straße strongly to the train station. Today's reception building of the station was inaugurated in 1980. The relay interlocking was put into operation in 1982. The station building met today but one does not always open waiting area no longer operational function. Part of the building is leased to a security company. In another part of the building a bakery store is operated. In the old station building now houses the municipal library.

The station Graben-Neudorf has five persons made accessible tracks at a total of three platforms with a platform height of 76 cm (standard on the S- Bahn Rhein Neckar), two elevators, electronic train destination indicators and automated announcements announcing the entrances of passenger trains. The line S 33 the S- Bahn Rhein Neckar went in December 2011 on the Bruhrainbahn ( Germersheim - Bruchsal ) in operation and replaced here ( except for a few compounds in the morning) the existing diesel multiple units of class 628 to buy tickets of the composite, a near - and long-distance transport are two ticket machines of the latest generation with touch screen function.

The station is accessible from the west and the east side and has on both sides ample parking and bicycle storage. The underpass for pedestrians and cyclists connects both directions, to the west of the railway station ring with the Heidelberg Road in the east.

Transport links

The station Graben-Neudorf is maintenance of a respective regional train, S- Bahn and Regional Express Line.

Since December 2007, the station Graben-Neudorf is back on the bus network. The bus Hochstetten -Neudorf and Graben-Neudorf - Dettenheim use here the stop named Graben-Neudorf station. The bus stop is located opposite the train station building on the road Bahnhofsring. The two bus lines are in the Karlsruhe Transport Association (CDV ) from the regional bus services West GmbH (RVS ) as a licensee and on whose behalf partially by various private bus companies from the region with the line numbers 124 ( high Stetten -Neudorf ) and 198 ( Graben-Neudorf - Dettenheim ) operated. The 2009/2010 tentative operated bus line 199 ( Graben-Neudorf - Hambrücken ) was reinstated for the annual timetable 2011. For the operation of the station, the buses turn off the main road in Graben-Neudorf center from the railway station ring and then return back to the main road. The bus stop Graben-Neudorf Bahnhof is located between the center and stop Graben-Neudorf Neudorf Amalienstraße. The arrival and departure times of the buses are not adapted to all relations of the Deutsche Bahn trains.

History

Opening and development to the node

With the opening of the railway line Mannheim - Schwetzingen - Graben-Neudorf - Eggenstein - Karlsruhe on August 4, 1870 began the history of the station. On November 23, 1874, the Bruhrainbahn was opened after Rheinheim, which was extended to Germersheim on 15 May 1877.

Blankenloch - - Karlsruhe - Durmersheim - Rastatt - In 1895, the strategic railway Graben-Neudorf was Haguenau opened, bringing the henceforth as " Hardt Railway " designated route Graben-Neudorf - Eggenstein - Karlsruhe came as a by- path to the sidelines.

On the Bruhrainbahn about 1890 initially reversed the long-distance trains between Munich - Stuttgart - Bretten - Bruchsal - Germersheim - Landau - Biebermühle - Two bridges - Saarbrücken, also on the Rhine Valley line Karlsruhe - Mannheim. After the Second World War lost the long-distance transport of the East-West direction and significance was set at the Bruhrainbahn. Despite the fact that the station was the junction of two inter-regional highways, he was never maintenance of long-distance trains.

20th century

In 1967, the company was set to the Hardt Railway and reduced the distance between Graben-Neudorf and Leopoldshafen. Between 1987 and 1989, the Hardt Railway was reactivated with partially re-routing through the village centers to high Stetten. Today the Albtal traffic -Gesellschaft ( AVG) operates here with high passenger acceptance of the metropolitan railway lines S1 and S11 of the Karlsruhe Transport Association. About an extension to Graben-Neudorf on the old railway line was considered, but it does not appear feasible, especially Graben-Neudorf is connected via the Rhine Valley line directly to Karlsruhe. In the long term appears promising a continuation of Hardt Railway of high- Stetten on Dettenheim by Philip Castle.

In 1972, the station came to a dangerous accident. A barrel in the form of a Bleibox containing plutonium and should be transported to the former nuclear research center Karlsruhe by freight train, fell over and rolled in Graben-Neudorf station on the track. By passing trains, it was thrown into the air. In protective suits was then searched for the barrel, after hours it was found. The plutonium was the Bleibox not escaped; otherwise, the entire station had been contaminated with plutonium.

On 30 and 31 May 1987, a large station festival took place at the opening of new routes section between Mannheim and Graben-Neudorf.

Station name

Mistakenly, the station Graben-Neudorf in the colloquial and railway language, probably often referred from a certain language laziness, only with " ditch ". In Karlsruhe Hbf is in the departure plans, the abbreviation " ditch -N. " Used, as in other station name with a hyphen (eg, " Kassel -W. ", " Wiesloch -W. ", " Bietigheim -B. " ) Is this there due to wrong with lack of space.

Other stations in Graben- Neudorf

Apart from the Graben-Neudorf station there in Graben- Neudorf still the breakpoint Graben-Neudorf North. It lies on the railway line Germersheim - Bruchsal ( Bruhrainbahn ) at the 10.7 line kilometers in the northwest of the district at the Neudorf Molzaustraße. He was taken in May 1994 together with the start of the Karlsruhe Transport Association and the Rheinland -Pfalz- clock operation. Today, it only holds the line S33 of the S- Bahn Rhein Neckar.

The planned breakpoint ' Graben-Neudorf South has in the foreseeable future probably no chance of being realized. He should be on the Rhine Valley line at the height of Adolf Kussmaul - school in the southeastern district ditch and arising in connection with the development of a smaller residential area. The proportion of funding (42 million euros ), the municipality Graben-Neudorf currently too high.