Ludwigslust–Wismar railway

The railway line Ludwigslust -Wismar is an electrified main line in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In section Ludwig Lust- bath small it is two-pronged.

History

Before 1945

After 1846 the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg -Schwerin with the Berlin- Hamburg Railway got its first railway connection in 1847 the connection Hagenow Holthusen Schwerin was opened. On 12 July 1848, the extension followed by Wismar, a year later graduated from Bad kids starting at the railway bath small -Rostock.

1888 connect Holthusen was taken to Ludwigslust at the Berlin- Hamburg railway in operation. The continuous movement of Schwerin to Wittenberg and continue towards Magdeburg and Berlin took henceforth this way. Was ground internally and is Ludwigslust -Wismar regarded as a single track.

From 1945

After the Second World War, the importance of the distance grew. After the division of Germany, the seaports in Rostock and Wismar were clearly important, but also with a significantly increasing role in passenger transport. In the early 1970s the degraded as reparations after the Second World War, second track was rebuilt.

In the late 1970s, the line was relocated north of Ludwig 's content. You now branches off a piece of the Berlin- Hamburg later train. As a result of laying the path length increased by about 500 meters.

1986/87, the line was electrified. At that time the section was south bath small to the most frequented routes in the north of the GDR. In the summer of wrong almost 15 pairs of express Schwerin towards Magdeburg. There were three express trains and a Städteexpresszug from Schwerin to Berlin, to some amplifiers for commuters.

Since 1990

On December 31, 1992, a severe rear-end collision, when the express train from Rostock to Leipzig frontal occurred in the station of Holthusen collided with a shunting locomotive.

As part of the reunification of Germany, there was a shift of traffic from the North-South relationship in the east-west direction. In addition, the trains between Rostock and Hamburg, which drove earlier about Lübeck run, since the second half of the 1990s about Schwerin. In sections, the line was modernized as part of the German Unity Transport Project No. 1 for top speeds up to 160 km / hr. However, the expansion has not yet happened only in the section of Holthusen to Carlshöhe.

In spring 2001, the new breakpoint Schwerin center was near the city center in operation. At the same time a continuous regional express line was created to Berlin.

In the years 2002-2005 the main railway station in has been modernized, inter alia, the length of the platform of the tracks 2 and 3 was increased. Likewise, the bridge over the Obotritenring was renewed, although the track, which served as Einfahrgleis the west of the station located from the freight station train depot, was interrupted. In order to continue to use the depot was built directly from the bypass track of the track 4 a switch in the direction of the railway depot. In the former depot now the Mecklenburg Railway and Technology Museum is housed.

The formerly independent freight station in Schwerin was graded to a train station part of the main railway station and is now entirely abandoned. Some tracks of the freight depot be used as station tracks for the parking of passenger trains.

In December 2012, the breakpoint Petersdorf was closed.

Current situation

The trunk is used over entire length of regional express trains every hour. Alternately, it trains the Line RE 2, which is operated in December 2012 by the East German railway and continues through Wittenberg and Berlin to Cottbus, and the line RE 7 of DB Regio West only between Wismar and Ludwig pleasure. In the bath small -Schwerin Holthusen section also operate intercity trains of the line ( Binz ) Stralsund to Rostock, Schwerin and Hamburg and Regional Express Rostock- Hamburg. Individual commuter trains "Flying Schwerin " oscillate between Schwerin and Ludwigslust there and make the connection to the long-distance trains to Berlin ago. In summer there is an Intercity Rostock- bath small -Schwerin -Ludwig pleasure Leipzig.

The breakpoint Petersdorf was given the timetable change in December 2012, because of continued operation extensive expansion measures would have been necessary.