Karlsruhe freight bypass railway
The freight rail bypass Karlsruhe is an exclusively reserved for the freight railroad southeast of downtown Karlsruhe. The freight rail bypass allows freight trains to bypass the busy central station in Karlsruhe on a direct, separate line.
The freight bypass track is classified as a railway main line, continuously expanded to double track and electrified with catenary. It is one of the highest track class D4, which means the permissible axle load is 22.5 t and the linear load is 8.0 t / m.
In the freight bypass track, the Punctual Train Control ( PZB 90) is used, in contrast to the parallel access route to Central Station, which is secured with Linienzugbeeinflussung ( LZB ).
History
The line was created for the 1895 opened marshalling yard in the southeast of the city. In the northeast it has been connected to a via a simple tap of the line between old Karlsruhe main station and old Durlacher station and the other in a crossed the track for 1895 also opened route to ditch the said route Hbf -Durlach. In the southwest, it was also with simple branches to the then existing line from the old central station in Karlsruhe Ettlingen -West and - this Crossing it - the 1895 also opened routes to Wörth and Durmersheim connected.
1913, the new central station was built near the rail yard. The freight lines were largely unthreaded without crossing out the passenger transport routes. The old Karlsruhe freight station near the city center, the date was set directly on the Rhine Valley line on the way to the old Central Station, was to sack the station and was only accessible via the bypass train from Hagsfeld, on the one hand on the rail yard north of the old route Durlach - Karlsruhe, south to another over a track of this. The same was true for the old Durlacher goods station. Even the former Karlsruhe maintenance facility near the former Karlsruhe goods station was accessible only via the bypass path.
Passenger traffic was only introduced in 1913 on the bypass path, because now the distances from the new central station in the Palatinate, Karlsruhe West and the new Mühlburger station were performed on this path.
Current situation
Between marshalling yard and the passenger route between Central Station and Durlach of a container rail loading station with two tracks emerged on the other side of the Wolfartsweierer road. An originally planned there as a substitute for the disused freight stations Karlsruhe Durlach, more extensive freight station was not realized. The site of the former Karlsruhe repair shop and shut down parts of the freight station are to extend the district of south town, as well as for a new neighborhood park, the Ostauepark, used.
The investments of the expiry of the mountain of marshalling yard is shut down. The corresponding track field is used to set behind auto trains and even a new pilot project that are started in 2012 in Karlsruhe is running here. The material distribution center MVZ short layered laden and empty ballast cars for construction sites. This is used so that a friction-free delivery to the construction sites in the southwest is granted. More tracks are used for freight trains and waiting for the parking of locomotives.
On the route to ditch the freight bypass is connected without crossing as VzG 4210 at Hagsfeld in both directions, to the routes to Bruchsal and Pforzheim VzG 4217 as VzG 4211 only in the direction of Bruchsal and Pforzheim towards the yard. The crossing-free connection marshalling yard - Pforzheim was shut down.
On the routes to Durmersheim and Ettlingen it is connected as VzG 4214 or 4213 without crossing in both directions, to track the direction Wörth there is only a single track ( VzG 4215 ), which first passes under the Maximiliansbahn and then tied in Karlsruhe- West at the same level at this is.