Kornwestheim station
- Franconia Railway ( KBS 780, KBS 790.4-5 )
- Schuster train ( KBS 790.11 )
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The passenger station Kornwestheim (short Kornwestheim Pbf ) is a station in the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. Here ends the freight bypass track Stuttgart -Untertürkheim - Kornwestheim ( " Schuster railway" ) in the Franconia Railway. By December 2007, in Kornwestheim Pbf was a car-train - loading facility into operation.
- 2.1 S -Bahn
- 2.2 Regional Transport
History
Start time
In the construction of the Württemberg Central Railway from Stuttgart to Ludwigsburg also Kornwestheim received a station. Opened on October 15, 1846 breakpoint was about a kilometer from the village. About the dirt at the beginning Seegasse ( roughly today's train station and Güterbahnhofstraße ) reached him the travelers.
Initially story got the reception building later another floor. Downstairs there is a waiting and a service room were located. Upstairs was the home of the station master, who until 1891 had jurisdiction over the postal service of the community.
1852 received the northern railway between Stuttgart and Bietigheim a second main track, which began the traffic in the direction of Stuttgart in the area of the breakpoint. Because of the increasing movement of goods you equipped the station in 1865 with a goods shed.
Kornwest home first marshalling yard
To relieve the Stuttgart central railway station, the Directorate of State Railways was planning a freight bypass track that should allow a direct link between the Eastern and the Northern Railway. At the end points, two marshalling yards were provided. From Zuffenhausen as the end point had to be disregarded because of the unpleasant terrain. Instead, the flat surface in Kornwestheim proved to be ideal.
The first marshalling yard had a length of 1,700 meters and had 15 tracks. The old station building was demolished and created a few meters to the east again. So it remained until today. At that time it served as a freight office location and as accommodation for railway staff. For the administration and the travelers a new reception building made of brick on the western side was built, because most travelers waiting for trains to Stuttgart. Also on the western side there were two new service homes. On the eastern track field a locomotive shed and a Militärverladerampe for standing in Ludwigsburg regiments were built.
The commissioning of the railway line Untertürkheim - Kornwestheim and the enlarged station was held on September 30, 1896. King William II also participated in the opening ceremony. Gradually changed the townscape of the community. Due to the influx of many railway workers and laborers, the population increased.
The marshalling yard was soon overloaded. 1907 reviewed the state railway of its expansion, but only a new building elsewhere came into question. The new shunting and freight station was handed over on July 29, 1918 its determination. In the future, different at the two stations with the abbreviations Rbf and Pbf.
Reichsbahn
In 1929 the German Reichsbahn the four-tracked expansion between the items 12 (south of Kornwestheim Pbf ) and Ludwigsburg done. With the electrification of the northern railway between Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg Kornwestheim received on May 15, 1933 Following the Stuttgart suburb of traffic. 1935 called for Mayor Kercher a new reception building, for his recently since elevated to town Kornwestheim. This time again on the east side of the tracks. However, for the realization it was not.
Federal Railroad Time
In the 1960s, more and more car trains were offered. For this, the German Federal Railroad established a Autoverladestelle. The first road trip trains ran between 1962 Kornwestheim Pbf and Villach Hbf
On 10 October 1992 the new station building was inaugurated. It houses shops, offices and apartments. It consists of two built at right angles to five -story buildings that were painted white. Particularly impressive is the large glass roof between the buildings, which produces one unit. There is the eastern access to the platform underpass.
Railway operation
The station is served by lines S4 and S5 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn and regional trains of individual. Kornwestheim Pbf corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 3
Platform 1 is used by the moving trains to Stuttgart. The platform is no longer accessible for travelers. Track 2 has now been dismantled. On track 3, at the S-Bahn direction Zuffenhausen, Track 4 on the direction Ludwigsburg. The tracks 5 and 6 are used by by moving trains to Ludwigsburg. Start on Track 7 and end the few regional trains that connect to Untertürkheim about the goods shunting path. The track and signaling equipment are in a remote location from the relay interlocking in Stuttgart -Zuffenhausen station.