Tübingen–Horb railway

The railway line Tubingen Horb is a train track in Baden- Württemberg. It runs from Tübingen to Horb am Neckar and represents the continuation of the railway line Plochingen Tubingen Horb dar. In turn, it is linked to the Gäubahn. All the way from Plochingen to Rottweil was Historically, formerly known as Upper Neckar Railway. In the 1990s and 2000s, the German railway called then only the central portion treated here like that.

History

The route originated as a continuation of the already built until 1859 route of Plochingen to Reutlingen. The continuation of Tübingen over to Rottenburg was completed in 1861, the next section of Rottenburg- Eyach followed in 1864 and the last section Eyach Horb 1866.

Passenger

The track is from the DB ZugBus Regional Alb -Bodensee ( RAB) operated with regional railways and now referred to, together with the subsequent Nagold Valley Railway to Pforzheim as a cultural path. Between Tübingen and Rottenburg is run every half hour, in the course to Horb in the approximate hour clock with orientation on connections to the Intercity trains to and from Zurich and the regional express trains to and from Singen ( Hohentwiel ).

Part of the regional railways is bound from Tübingen InterRegio (IRE ) to Stuttgart, in the opposite direction reversed some of the trains over Horb also continue to Pforzheim. There are diesel railcars of series 611 and 650.3 are used.

Freight traffic

On one or two days per week the track is coming in the morning served by the Hohenzollern country train from Tübingen freight station to transport the charges of a scrap merchant and timber quantities direction. In Eyach the train moves to the nation 's rail route Eyach Hechingen.

There is no regular freight more intermediate Eyach and Horb. All sidings of the route were closed and partly built over. For example, the Rottenburger freight station disappeared years ago in favor of a new bus station.

Vehicles:

• MaK V 100 PA (Tübingen - Eyach )

Planning

For some years it is planned to establish new or reactivated breakpoints on the Tübingen - Rottenburg section, including Buhl, Kilchberg and Weilheim. However, a doubling of the track is to partially necessary. Several times was electrifying as a detour route for the Gäubahn section Horb -Stuttgart in conversation.

For several years, there are considerations to integrate the route in and build up the Karlsruhe model tram-train Neckar -Alb. Here, too, an electrification would be necessary. On the basis of the general financial problems, however, a conversion is not currently in sight.

In the long term control and safety equipment for the route to be operated together with Nagoldtal and Zollernalb path through the Regional Electronic Interlocking in Freudenstadt.