Heimbach (Nahe)–Baumholder railway

Heimbach (Nahe)–Baumholder railway
Overview
Locale	Rhineland-Palatinate
Line number	3200
Technical
Line length	9 km (5.6 mi)
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Minimum radius	300 m (980 ft)
Operating speed	50 km/h (31.1 mph) (maximum)
Maximum incline	1.9%
Route number	680; 271a (old);
Route map
	Legend
	Source: German railway atlas [1]

Last updated April 06, 2019

The Heimbach (Nahe)–Baumholder Railway was opened in 1912. It was formerly used exclusively for freight and military transport, but passenger services were reactivated in February 2015. It links to the Nahe Valley Railway west of Heimbach (Nahe).

The Nahe Valley Railway is a two-track, partially electrified main line railway in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, which runs for almost 100 kilometres along the Nahe. It was built by the Rhine-Nahe Railway Company and connects Bingen am Rhein on the Left Rhine line with Saarbrücken. It was opened between 1858 and 1860 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany. The section south of Bad Kreuznach is part of the regionally important transport corridor between the two major cities of Mainz and Saarbrücken.

Heimbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town.

History

Approval was given in 1897 to build a short railway from Heimbach to Baumholder. Preparation for the railway began in 1902. In 1908 Prussia passed an act to allow the railway to be built. The railway was open on December 15, 1912. A military training area was built in Baumholder between 1937 and 1938. As a result of this, the line experienced more activity and the number of tracks at the Baumholder station was increased.

Baumholder is a town in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, in the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France. The town of Baumholder is the administrative seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, a state-recognised tourism resort and, according to state planning, a middle centre.

Prussia was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It was de facto dissolved by an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian government to German Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932 and de jure by an Allied decree in 1947. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organised and effective army. Prussia, with its capital in Königsberg and from 1701 in Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany.

The passenger service on the line was stopped on May 31, 1981. After that, this stretch was served by passenger bus, most recently as bus route 322 of the Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund (RNN). There is no public transit service on the weekend. One exception to this was Rheinland-Pfalz Day in 2007. On this occasion there was service from June 29, 2007 to July 1, 2007, the first time since 1981 that there had been rail services on this stretch.

The railway's infrastructure was acquired by the Baumholder Municipality from DB Netz in 2006. Both the sale price of 310,000 Euro and the investment of about 1.5 Million Euro were taken on by the Rhineland-Palatinate government. The yearly operational deficit of 100,000 Euro has been covered by the main users of the line, the US Army and the Bundeswehr with a ratio of 80 to 20.^[2] Since December 10, 2006, Rheinland-Pfalz has used DB Schenker Rail for maintenance of the line.^[3]

Baumholder is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Baumholder.

DB Netz AG is a 100%-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn. It is a railway infrastructure manager, which owns and operates a majority of the German railway system. The company was established in the course of the second stage of the German rail reform as a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn. DB Netz's headquarters are in Frankfurt and it has seven regional divisions. The locations of its regional headquarters are Berlin, Frankfurt, Duisburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Leipzig and Munich.

Rhineland-Palatinate is a state of Germany.

Reactivation of services

The rail authority Rheinland-Pfalz Süd (ZSPNV Süd) decided in its meeting on December 10, 2008 to reactivate the line for passenger service in December 2014. The program is being operated under the Dieselnetzes Südwest and involves hourly service between Baumholder and Kirn. Stops are made in the towns of Heimbach and Ruschberg.^[4] Since 23 February 2015, the Regionalbahn RB 34 service has operated between Baumholder and Idar-Oberstein daily every hour; at peak times services are extended to Kirn.

Kirn is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It does not lie within any Verbandsgemeinde, even though it is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirn-Land. Kirn is a middle centre serving an area on the Nahe and in the Hunsrück.

Ruschberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The Regionalbahn is a type of local passenger train in Austria and Germany.

Locomotives

At the beginning of the lines operation, the Prussian Locomotives T9, G8, and G10 were used. Later the Reichsbahn Class 50 and Class 52 were used and for passenger service the Class 38 (Prussian P8) and Class 23 were used. After that DB railbuses Class 795 and Class 798 were used for passenger traffic. After 1975 the military trains used the Diesel Locomotives Class 218 and BR 211/212. Today the DB Class 232 and Class 290 are used.

The Prussian T 9 was a class of German steam locomotive which included several types of tank engine, all with six coupled wheels and two carrying wheels operated by the Prussian state railways.

The Prussian Class G 8 locomotives were eight-coupled, superheated, freight locomotives operated by the Prussian state railways. There were two variants: the G 8 built from 1902 with a 14 tonne axle load and the "reinforced G 8" built from 1913 with a 17-tonne axle load. The latter was the most numerous German state railway (Länderbahn) locomotive, over 5,000 examples being built.

The Prussian G 10 was a German goods train, steam locomotive, whose design was based on a combination of the running and valve gear from the Prussian T 16 and the boiler from the Prussian P 8. In developing the G 10, however, the T 16 running gear with side play on the first and fifth axles was modified. The T 16 was also subsequently built with this modified configuration and called the Prussian T 16.1. The G 10 was intended for heavy goods train duties on main lines, but as a result of its low axle load it could be employed more flexibly than its equally powerful cousin, the Prussian G 8.1. The G 10 was occasionally even used in passenger train service.

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References

↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
↑ Rhein-Zeitung from December 29, 2006
↑ „Europäische Privatbahnen '07“, DVV Media Group, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-7771-0365-5, S. 295
↑ Schienenstrecke Baumholder – Heimbach wird im Dezember 2014 reaktiviert (Railway Baumholder - Heimbach will be reactivated in December 2014) Archived 2012-04-07 at the Wayback Machine .

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Coordinates: 49°37′11″N7°16′25″E / 49.6198°N 7.2735°E / 49.6198; 7.2735

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[Eisenbahnatlas-1] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

[RZ-2] Rhein-Zeitung from December 29, 2006

[DVV-3] „Europäische Privatbahnen '07“, DVV Media Group, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-7771-0365-5, S. 295

[takt-4] Schienenstrecke Baumholder – Heimbach wird im Dezember 2014 reaktiviert (Railway Baumholder - Heimbach will be reactivated in December 2014) Archived 2012-04-07 at the Wayback Machine .