Kinding (Altmühltal) station

• Nuremberg -Ingolstadt ( KBS 901)

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The station Kinding (Altmühltal ) is a regional station at kilometer 58.6 of the high-speed line Nuremberg -Ingolstadt- Munich.

The station is located west of the Bavarian market Kinding near the federal highway you 9 is next to the train stations Allersberg ( distance 25.4 km ) and Ingolstadt Nord (km 86.8 ) is one of three regional stations of the new Nuremberg -Ingolstadt. The complex is located directly between the north adjacent Schellenberg tunnel (650 m ) and the south following Irlahülltunnel ( 7260 m).

The station was opened on 6 December 2006 with a ceremony and is served by trains since 10 December 2006. In operation sites directory it is passed under the name MKIG and is classified in the train station category 6 (Regional traffic stop). The station is assigned to the station management Rosenheim.

• 3.1 Planning
• 3.2 construction 3.2.1 Symbolic gap closure

• 4.1 World Record Celebration on September 2, 2006

Transport links

The station is from 10 December 2006 and will be served by regional trains. Until then, only drove ICE trains on the line passing through the station without stopping.

Since the timetable change in December 2006 stop at the station Kinding up to 200 km / h regional express trains of the Munich -Nuremberg Express towards Nuremberg or Munich in two- hour intervals. From track 1 (east of the main tracks ) while the trains to Nuremberg, from the track 4 towards Ingolstadt / Munich.

Infrastructure

The four-track railway station is located about one kilometer from the junction of Highway 9 Altmühltal. He has a park - and-ride car park with 100 parking spaces for cars and several lay-bys for buses. From there, a ramp leads to the track 1, while an underpass is in the direction Track 4 under the tracks, which is followed in each case a ramp.

A reception building you are looking at Kinding station vain. In the single building of the railway station, a sub-center of the electronic interlocking system of the track is installed.

Railway system

The station has two continuous center tracks that are passable and performed in slab track with UIC 60 rails at 300 km / hr. A speed reduction for transit is not necessary. Amusing trains operate at a maximum of 100 km / h over the course platform tracks of the two outer platforms on. At the northern end of the station in a tunnel Schellenberg track change lies with four points that can be traversed with branching 130 km / h.

The platforms were extended from the original 170 to 186 meters depending. The two platform tracks are performed in conventional ballasted track with rail profile S54 and can also be used as passing loops to allow priority trains overtaking. On the platforms is ever a weather protection system fitted with six seats.

Altmühltherme bridge

Before entering the Irlahülltunnel the route crosses with four tracks the Altmühltherme ( distance 59.4 km ). The 79 m long and 26.15 m wide bridge consists of two parallel continuous beams, which each accommodate two tracks. The spans of the carriers, which were built as a two-piece hollow boxes with a height of 2 m, located at 24.5 30 m 24.5 m.

Noteworthy is the oblique transition between the bridge and embankment. The longitudinal axis of the bridge and the axis of the bridge bearings in the transverse direction thereby form an angle of 60 degrees. The Federal Railway Office granted a special permit ( approval in individual cases ) for this oblique transition between the bridge and dam.

The building was created with a support structure in a construction period of 20 months.

History

Planning

After the planning status of mid-1994, the station was designed as a pure overtaking, which will be developed into a regional station if necessary would. North and south of the station each track change between the track rails were provided with four points. 1999 was the expansion of the fixed pulling over to the local train station. The Free State of Bavaria had commissioned the expansion. In both station heads this platform changes were also provided with four points.

The building was part of the zoning section 52 of the new line and counted for Los center.

Construction

During the construction phase of the station belonged to the construction lot middle of the new line, the Hochtief (Munich ) was built.

Symbolic gap closure

On 13 June 2005, the solemn " gap closure " of the high-speed line was celebrated on the eastern platform track, the insertion and welding of the last track piece of the new line. For this purpose, an eleven -meter-long piece of track at the northern platform track 1 was cut out and transported by excavators in the adjacent Schellenberg tunnel before the festivities. A few hours later it was welded back in the presence of a few hundred guests. The corresponding weld can be seen today at the level of the signal box building.

Operation

On 4 August 2011, a Velaro D trainset reached during a test drive at a speed of 352 Kinding station km / h

World record ceremony on September 2, 2006

On 2 September 2006, a grand celebration for 357-km/h-Weltrekordfahrt a Euro Sprinter locomotive took place at the station. In addition to the world record locomotive, among other things, the French Rekordloks CC 7107 and BB 9004 were issued on the western platform.

The timetable change in December 2013 in the regional transport system Nürnberg to be integrated.

Remains of former railway station Kinding

Located just below the present station, the historic station building of the former station Kinding is located on the Altmühltalradweg web. Passenger traffic on the associated section between Beilngries and Kipfenberg was set on 2 October 1955. The section was shut down on 3 June 1970 and has now been dismantled. The old station building is still being used by a local tennis club and maintained. Only the leading past it Altmühltal bike path provides a regular traffic.

Special

Kinding is located next to the north on the same route Allersberg and Limburg Süd and Montabaur (both at the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main ) one of four German train stations that can be scheduled by driving at 300 km / hr.

Another feature of the station are the southern platform switches, which are in the for this purpose particularly wide built north portal of the Irlahülltunnels. This measure was necessary to accommodate the two platform tracks in full length between the two tunnels. In Schellenberg tunnel north of the station, a track change with four points is established. For this tunnel rescue course was laid out with turning area for emergency vehicles near its south portal just north of the platform four.