Neckargemünd–Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld railway

The railway line Neckargemuend bath Friedrich -Jagstfeld is a partially double-track electrified main line and developed in Baden- Württemberg. It runs from Neckargemuend about Sinsheim to Bad Friedrich -Jagstfeld while following the river Elsenz partly why she is also called Elsenztalbahn. The stations were controlled with mechanical interlocking to 2008, today this is done via an electronic interlocking.

History

The line was opened to Meckenheim on October 23, 1862 by the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways as part of the Baden main train from Heidelberg to Mosbach section Neckargemuend. The section of Meckenheim to Bad Rappenau followed on 25 June 1868 After Jagstfeld it went from 5 August 1869. Through the succession arrangements, it is now owned by Deutsche Bahn.

The regional train - Binding Mannheim, Speyer, Bruchsal accounted for in 2003, first due to the introduction of the S- Bahn Rhein Neckar. For the purposes of extending the same ( in the section Heidelberg Steinsfurt ) and the establishment of the northern section of Heilbronn Stadtbahn ( section Sinsheim bath Friedrich -Jagstfeld ) the entire line was electrified and built new breakpoints.

Extension

The project " Electrification and development of transport infrastructure on the Elsenztal and Schwarzbach Valley Railway " saw a new construction / remodeling all platforms and modernization of stations from Neckargemuend before addition of electrification, as these had to be brought to a platform height of 76 centimeters, among other adjustments to to meet the standards of S- Bahn Rhein Neckar. The expansion was divided into four stages:

Parallel to the roadway supports the electronic interlocking ( CBI ) Elsenztal was completed by the end of 2008.

Currently, the new breakpoints "Bad Rappenau Kurpark " and " Bad Wimpfen in the Valley " are planned. You are expected to be operated from 14 December 2014 the Stadtbahn Heilbronn.

As part of the expansion of Heilbronn city rail link north part of the route Bad Rappenau bath Friedrich -Jagstfeld weekdays locked in the period from 7 January 2014 to presumably 13 December 2014. On weekends and holidays, at no trains between Steinsfurt and Bad Rappenau. The Bad Wimpfen Bahnhof will be expanded into a two-pronged junction station during this construction work and created the bridge over the L530 as a double-track bridge again.

Operation

Between Neckargemuend and Steinsfurt with the S5 usually an hour. Taking into account also the Neckar Valley Railway is for Heilbronn Regional Express -hour clock direction Mannheim with Intercity-Express port. On the route daily run about three different types of trains:

• RE 2 ( RE 2 ) Mannheim - Heidelberg - Meckenheim - Sinsheim - Heilbronn
• RB 74 (R 77) Sinsheim - Steinsfurt - Bad Friedrich -Jagstfeld ( - Heilbronn)
• S 5 Heidelberg - Neckargemuend - Meckenheim - Sinsheim - Steinsfurt - Epping
• S 51 Heidelberg - Neckargemuend - Meckenheim - Waibstadt - Aglasterhausen

The traction material consists of EMUs the 425 series of the S- Bahn Rhein Neckar. In section Heidelberg - Meckenheim also served by line S 51 hourly, which continues from Meckenheim to Aglasterhausen. The superposition of the lines S 5 and S 51 is obtained on the section Heidelberg - Meckenheim a 30 -minute intervals. Aglasterhausen or Heidelberg - - In the rush hours both S -Bahn lines in the section Meckenheim Sinsheim be compressed to a half hour, whereby the section Heidelberg - resulting in a 15 -minute intervals Meckenheim. The trains from RE 2 consist almost exclusively of multiple units of the series 425

Freight traffic

As part of the concept MORA C, ​​the operation of the last served in the freight station Mecke home was set on 31 December 2001, but by 2009 from Mannheim twice a week laden with wooden freight cars were still exchanged, which were loaded along the Black Brook and Krebsbach Valley Railway. Since the S-Bahn extension of the line, making only three tracks are found in Meckenheim available, and the mothballing of Krebsbach Switchback 2009, this timber traffic no longer take place. From Heilbronn from the Bad Wimpfen Solvay chemical plant is regularly serviced.

Regular continuous freight transport does not take place because the track as opposed to the Neckar Valley Railway is partly single track and has a less favorable height profile. In exceptional cases of-gauge freight trains are routed through the track that can not go via other routes.