Schwaikheim station

• Railway Waiblingen- Schwäbisch Hall Hessental (CAB 785, CAB 790.3 )

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The Schwaikheim station is located at kilometer 6.8 of the railway line Waiblingen- Schwäbisch Hall Hessental and is a station in the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. According to the Railway Construction and Operating Rules, however, it is not a train station, but a breakpoint.

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History

Planning and construction

In the 1860s, engineers were planning a railway line from Waiblingen to Backnang. They worked initially from two proposals. In the first, the route would have come over to Winnenden basket. The second proposal was the route where possible to leave in the Rems valley, and they may only to recoil to the north at Großheppach.

Ultimately, the decision was made for the construction of a viaduct over the Rems at Neustadt and the current routing. The mayor Schwaikheim Gebhard Friedrich Simon, who was at this time as a deputy in parliament, endeavored strongly to a rail connection for his home.

On Schwaikheim district some earthworks were necessary. In order to draw the line from Erbachtal on Winnender height, had to dig a tunnel, the Royal Württemberg State Railways. Was the establishment of a railway embankment on the Lohwiesenbach For the straight course in a westerly direction.

The station was built one kilometer south of Schwaikheim. The state railway offered the local government to build a passage for a highway. But these refused and demanded only the width of a pedestrian path.

The station building has been preserved. It is a two-storey, 15 meters long and nine meters wide building with a gable roof. The ground floor consists of sandstone, the upper floor of brick. On the ground floor initially found a post office with telegraph place.

Opening and Development

On 26 October 1876, the official opening of the station Schwaikheim took place. On that day, the State Railways took the first section of the Murr valley railway between Waiblingen and Backnang in operation.

The municipal administration put on the Bahnhofstrasse. Initially, however, only as unpaved dirt road. Only in 1907 it came to its extension and continuation to the main road (now County Road 1911 Waiblingen- Winnenden ).

Schwaikheim grew in the direction of the railway station and evolved from a farming village to the working settlement. The agriculture many operated only as a sideline.

Modernization

From 1962 to 1965 was the doubling and electrification of the section Waiblingen- Backnang. Had on both sides of the station to be something pivots the route. In this reconstruction of the station received a pedestrian underpass. The German Federal Railroad planned with a width of two meters. But the local government sat down with her desire by three meters.

As a further improvement in local traffic, the Federal Railroad took on 27 September 1981, the S-Bahn line S3 Backnang- Schwabstraße in operation.

Infrastructure

Until 1965 the station possessed at the time single-track railway Murr on a siding. Since the two-pronged expansion, there is no more alternative. The two main lines have outdoor platforms. Until the 90s also still existed east of the reception building a double-sided connected loading track, which has now also been dismantled.

Railway operation

The breakpoint is served by the S3 S-Bahn Stuttgart. On track 1, on the main platform, the trains direction Waiblingen, on track 2, the direction Backnang.

The Schwaikheim station corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 5

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