Southern Railway (Württemberg)
The Southern Railway is a non-electrified main line in Baden- Württemberg. It was built in 1846-1850 and expanded to double track from 1905 to 1913. During this period, numerous reception building of the stations were built. Your chainage starts as Filstalbahn in Stuttgart Main Station.
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Course
The Southern Railway begins in Ulm via Biberach an der Riss, Aulendorf and Ravensburg to Friedrichshafen. Some trains on the track line of the Lake Constance Belt Railway continues to Lindau.
History
To 1945
Under the technical overhead line of the upper head of planning of Gaab whose speakers Autenrieth and Buehler studied from 1836 at an economic link between Ulm and Friedrichshafen. Alternatively, a channel connection with the use of crack and Schussen was considered the opposite of a double-track railway line was slightly higher construction costs but promised a much lighter operation processing. Using the Law Via the construction of railways on 18 April 1843, Württemberg State finally decided to build several railway routes, which should complement the Northern, Western, Eastern and Southern Railway to form a network, which should cover the most urgent transport needs of the Kingdom.
The Southern Railway was there part of a continuous railway line from navigable in Heilbronn Neckar Stuttgart and Ulm to Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. Among various route alternatives won the straight connection from Ulm to Friedrichshafen.
As a first insulated track section the section Ravensburg- Friedrichshafen was opened on 8 November 1847. On May 26, 1849, section followed Biberach an der Riss - Ravensburg and on June 1, 1850, the remaining distance from Ulm. Initially wrong with a zoom geschafften on carts locomotive and nine car freight trains with passengers as stand-alone operation; therefore Friedrichshafen had from the beginning his own workshop, as there was no connection to the Eßlinger workshop of the web.
With the closure of the gap Eastern Railway between Stuttgart and Ulm on the Geislingen on 29 June 1850, the Royal Württemberg State Railways won the race at Lake Constance: The Royal Bavarian State Railways reached the lake three years later, the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways only thirteen years later.
The track to the harbor station was built 1849/50 and was put into operation on 1 June 1850 0.816 km length, a slope of 1:45 and a minimum radius of 150 m.
From 1905 to 1913 was carried out from war economic reasons, the doubling of the line Ulm - Friedrichshafen.
1945-2000
After the Second World War, over the years several stations that were far away from the villages, shut down. Likewise, all branching from the Southern Railway routes have been decommissioned in passengers, except the routes Aulendorf - Herbertingen and Aulendorf - Kißlegg.
From the nineties drove (from 1999 shortened to a pair of trains and with changed route from Stuttgart to Karlsruhe) over the course of the inter-regional relation Saarbrücken- Lindau. From 1 July 1993 wrong DMUs of type NE81 founded on 15 October 1991 Upper Swabia - Bahn GmbH (BOB ), also known as " billy goat path " between Friedrichshafen and Ravensburg, who were a few years later by tied up to Aulendorf.
As early as 1994 had the BOB raise additional cars due to high demand, some of them borrowed car also from eg from the Hohenzollern State Railways ( HzL ). Partial already disused railway stations were starting up the " billy goat track " now reactivated. To overcome the meantime continue to increase in traffic, driving on the Southern Railway since autumn 1998 railcar of Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1.
On the northern section of the Southern Railway, DB RAB took over the local transport services. For 1999, the branch line Laupheim West Laupheim city, the last remaining section of the railway line Laupheim West Schwendihotel, reactivated and the rides through bound to Langenau.
Since 2001
2001, the trains running on the route Interregio were shortened to a pair of trains on the route Karlsruhe -Ulm. With the abolition of this type of train the end of 2002, the remaining inter-regional train pair through an intra-city Münster ( Westphalia ) / Dortmund -Lindau Innsbruck was replaced.
As a replacement for the inter-regional train type the Inter Regio -Express ( IRE) was introduced on 15 December 2002.
In July 2008, the district of Biberach and the German Bahn AG also decided at Laupheim West Railway Station to build a roughly 400 -meter-long connecting curve of the Southern Railway ( Biberach ) for the existing line of Laupheim West to Laupheim city. In order direct from Biberach about Laupheim to Ulm city be possible for regional railways. The construction work on this started in June 2009 and was completed in June 2011. As part of this expansion, the entire signal system in Laupheim West railway station was modernized.
There is a draft plan for the expansion of the portion of Ulm - Biberach - Aulendorf ( Regional Association Danube -Iller ) as part of the Regio -S -Bahn Danube -Iller. For this, the electrification of the route is particularly necessary.
Furthermore, it was examined in the course of planning for the Regio -S -Bahn Danube -Iller the construction of a new connection to Donautalbahn of Erbach to Ehingen, but discarded again.
Operation
On the track drive two different IRE trains: one is the diesel railcars of series 611, the drive in the 120 -minute intervals to Basel, on the other turn trains with locomotives of the series 218 double -deck coaches or n- cars in the 120 -minute driven drive clock from Stuttgart to Lindau, reinforced by IRE trains from Ulm to Lindau, driven also series 218 double -deck coaches or n- trolleys, but also with diesel railcars of Class 611 Regional railways are the Series 650 ( Regio-Shuttle ) belonging to the DB RAB, BOB and HzL. The only inter-city pair is also covered with double traction of the series 218.
On Sundays and public holidays traveling between (Stuttgart), Ulm, Friedrichshafen and Lindau in 2 -hour intervals partially special bicycle trains. These trains consist mainly of 3-4 n- wagon or possibly bi-level cars with a bicycle cart or baggage car and a Class 218 In the summer goes on some weekends under the name RadExpress a cycle on Lake Constance ( 2nd class only ) of Ulm Hbf to Friedrichshafen city. In this train bicycles can be taken free of charge.
The features of the BOB to make in Friedrichshafen Stadt Train head and are linked via a 800 meter- long branch line to Friedrichshafen Hafen Train Station.
Transport associations
From Ulm to Aulendorf the route runs within the Danube -Iller - transport composite ( DING ) of Aulendorf to Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance - Upper Swabia Transport Association ( bodo ).
Expansion and electrification
Today, the Southern Railway Württemberg is one of the few non-electrified double-track main lines in Germany. A electrification (including the continuation of Lindau ) is now decided. An expansion to the potential for freight tap and possibly bring back more long-distance trains on the track after currently (2011) runs only one intercity train pair. According to the Standard Review this measure would have carried on travel time savings and reduced air pollution overall economic benefit-cost ratio depending on the version 1.8 to 2.4. The costs lie well above 100 million euros.
On 30 June 2009, the state of Baden -Württemberg and the German Railway entered into a planning agreement. The result of the planning should be available by the end of 2012. The cost of planning in the amount of 1.4 million euros financed, the association Southern Railway, in which 26 cities and towns have joined along the way, before. In December 2010, the German Railway commissioned the environmental planning of the project to be carried out between late 2010 and late 2013.
The project is, according to the orientation of the districts, divided into five zoning sections. It ends in Lindau with the threading in the railway line from Munich, which is also to be electrified.
On August 18, 2011, plan approval documents were submitted for the first of five sections at the Eisenbahn -Bundesamt. Until the spring of 2012 should be submitted the documents for all five sections. With the start of construction was expected in the fall of 2011 from 2013. Section, the line speed to 160 km / h should be increased. The estimated construction cost for the electrification of a total of 253 kilometers of track were in September 2011 to around 140 million euros. The state of Baden -Württemberg funded the cost of the design and approval planning in the amount of eight million euros. In addition, the state of Baden -Württemberg wants to take over half of the construction costs. The commissioning was scheduled for 2015.
In spring 2012, a cost estimate determined 140 million euros. Precaution costs were adopted by 180 million euros. Federal and state governments agreed to share the financing of the estimated cost of 180 million euros. The state of Baden -Württemberg presented in the biennium 2013/14 a its share of funding of 90 million euros. In the fall of 2012, the cost estimate of 180 was increased to 226 million euros. The increase was based on marshy ground, the upgrading of cable routes and additional retaining walls. With the increased cost of construction was accompanied by an increase in planning costs 8.28 million euros, which was announced in March 2013. The estimated cost of the whole project so that now amount to 234.3 million euros. It was planned to complete the electrification of the end of 2017.
Funding for the additional costs is not clear. A financing agreement is not yet available. (April 2013) end of May 2013 were submitted the documents for the plan approval process for the last two of the five sections.
Beginning in June 2013 agreed Winfried Kretschmann and Rüdiger Grube set up a working group for the electrification of the line. In the same month, a further delay was announced. According to the Federal Ministry of Transport, the financing agreement could now be 2014 at the earliest signs. The reason additional studies of the subsurface were called.
Between Federal and State ran early 2014 negotiations to conclude a financing agreement. The country is pushing for signature in 2014. The Ministry of Transport Baden- Württemberg was the beginning of February 2014 internally by 206 million euros. The disclosure of plan documents in the two remaining sections is for April and May 2014 planned (February 2014).
According to the federal government by December 2013 the project is to be completed in 2018.
Others
The section between Erbach and Biberach runs straight, past villages. In planning the route, potential station communities could not agree who should now get the rail connection, and the negotiations dragged on fruitlessly in the length - until King William I was too colorful. He wanted to reach his summer residence Mayrhofen monastery on the territory of the present town of Friedrichshafen as quickly as possible to the modern means of transport. One day he appeared in the Ministry of Transport, the discussion ceased to rail links for a while and then put a ruler on the map: "So the route is built! "
At the level of the former breakpoint Wattenweiler the railway overcomes the watershed between the Danube and the Rhine.
In the song " On the Schwabian railroad " the stations of the route are mentioned ( " Stuttgart, Ulm and Biberach, Meckenbeuren, Durlesbach "). On the route Durlesbach occurs Meckenbeuren; the different order in the lyrics may be because of the rhyme, but corresponds exactly to the importance of these stations ( in decreasing order ).
Since the Durlesbach station is off the settlements in Schussental, he was named after the creek opens out there. This station was originally the connection of the 7 km north-east town of Bad Waldsee, but this function lost with the opening of the Allgäu Railway on 25 July 1869. During the same year the tracks were extended in Durlesbach station to instead for the timber loading it (also to to use export to Switzerland ). After the revival (1870 ) of 2 km eastern monastery Reute the station gained new importance for the numerous visitors and patients of the monastery. Since the advent of the automobile, however Durlesbach lost steadily in importance until the station last only one breakpoint was finally closed down in 1984 with "Halt on request for groups of hikers ".
Today the station building houses as " Durlesbach Culture Station " an art gallery and café. A Denkmalzug with Billy Goat, Farmer, Weible and Kondukteur (Alfons Walz, 1991) is reminiscent of the famous song with the sad end of the billy goat, who had been bound by its owner to the end of the train - as he was accustomed from his travels by stagecoach that.
To 6 January 2014, the Museum Biberach offers a Sonderausssstellung the history of the Southern Railway at. [ Deprecated]
Gallery
BOB train in Ravensburg
Trains in Ravensburg Train
Station Meckenbeuren
An n- cars in use on the Southern Railway
Tilting body in Ravensburg
Diesel in Friedrichshafen
RegioShuttle in Friedrichshafen city railway station
Harbour Station Friedrichshafen 1900
Hub at the railway station Biberach an der Riss in 1904 (before post)
Accident Durlesbach 1913