Gräfenberg Railway

As Gräfenbergbahn the railway line from Nuremberg Nordostbahnhof about Herold Mountain, Kalchreuth and Eschenau is called after Graefenberg. It is regarded as successful reference project for the revitalization of endangered decommissioning railway lines. It is integrated into the regional transport system and Nuremberg wrong there as line R21.

History

Precursor of the railway line was a bus line between Nuremberg Plaerrer on the Hall Place and Maxfeld to Heroldsberg, the first Bavarian Motor Omnibus lines -Gesellschaft mbH, which was registered on March 19, 1903 in the commercial register. This bus line was opened on 23 May 1903. In December 1903, the Company entered into a contract with the Post Office about the letter and parcel transport by Eschenau. On January 1, 1904, the first mail was transported, but the volume of mail was so extensive that by passengers could no longer be promoted. Therefore, the carriage of mail on October 1, 1905, and reinstated the dissolved Omnibus Company on 22 September 1905. Ludwig Maurer, Nuremberg's first and only automobile producer ( Maurer - Union) as well as operators and liquidator of the route, the line operated until 1906.

The track construction began in 1904. On 1 February 1908, the traffic through the Bavarian State Railway of Nuremberg Northeast could be taken to herald mountain. After the route was extended to Eschenau on 1 May 1908 was connected to the already opened on November 12, 1886 secondary path Erlangen- Grafenberg, called the manatee. 1926 Breakpoint Brick was abandoned after extension of the tram in the present district of Nuremberg brick. The traffic of Eschenau to Erlangen was set on June 19, 1961.

In recent decades, the traffic on the Gräfenbergbahn was initially greatly reduced. So wrong in 1983, only five trains per day in each direction. The weekend traffic was shifted to a OVF bus, this took three times a day. After completion of the subway station Nuremberg - Nordostbahnhof was decided to greatly expand the offer. In 1998 the railway line was modernized, it has since been operated by an electronic interlocking ( CBI ) in Herold mountain. After two years of construction, the train service was resumed in 2000 with an attractive clock traffic and switched over completely in the summer of 2001 on the new railcar Class 642. Since 2003, the train runs on weekends every hour.

Since the construction of additional breakpoint Herold Mountain North for the resettlement of the company Schwan-Stabilo Heroldsberg the web is increasingly used by commuters from Nuremberg since August 2002.

The regional train services on the route in 2005 awarded by the Bavarian Railway Company as part of the " diesel network Nuremberg " for ten years. The German railway in March 2006 received the contract and went from 14 December 2008 under the name " Middle Franconia Railway" with new railcar class 648 Since the timetable change on December 13, 2009 run again Diesel multiple units of class 642

Route description

The travel time for the entire single-track line is about 40 minutes. In Eschenau and Heroldsberg the trains meet. At peak times the maximum capacity of the track is reached with one train in one of the three sections. The first of the three trains runs in the afternoon only between Nuremberg and Eschenau, but this makes on this section only a " crooked " 31- minute intervals. In addition, some breakpoints are not served by these trains.

A special feature of the course is that it - is traveled in passenger in island mode - except for brief exceptions. The connection to the other stations Nuremberg was formerly carried by the tram and today by the subway at North Station subway station. The output Bahnhof Nürnberg -West was formerly a junction on the Nuremberg ring road. To the east branched off until its closure on 31 May 1992, a track to Nürnberg Ost railway station on the Nuremberg- Cheb, a second track led until 1980 by the Kingdom of wood to the block location Eichelbergstrasse between Nuremberg - Erlenstegen and Behringersdorf on the same route. To the west, there is still a connection to this ring road, on the on the freight yard north of Nuremberg Fürth, vehicles are supplied for Gräfenbergbahn.

The historic station building in Kalchreuth is a listed building and was restored in 2002. Today it is a small theater untergebracht.Der former engine shed in Eschenau has been renovated and is maintained by the association Eschenauer culture roundhouse " Secu ".

In railhead Graefenberg is possible to drive around car sets with locomotives via the secure locks with switches Umfahrgleis. With a water discharge point steam locomotives can be supplied.

Former breakpoint Nuremberg - Buchenbühl

Umfahrgleis and water point in Grafenberg station

Terminus Graefenberg

Roundhouse in Eschenau