Main–Weser Railway

Main–Weser Railway
Main-Weser Railway
(Main-Weser-Bahn)
Route number: 614.9 (RegioTram to Treysa)
620 (Kassel–Gießen)
630 (Gießen–Frankfurt)
645.6 (S-Bahn to Friedberg)
Line number: 3900
Line length: 199.8 km (124.1 mi)
Gauge: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in)
Voltage: 15 kV, 16⅔ Hz AC
Maximum speed: 160 km/h (99.4 mph)
Southern part only
Legend
Head station
0.0 Kassel Hbf
Unknown BSicon "ABZ3lg" Junction to right
Halle-Kassel railway to Hann. Münden
Straight track Junction to left Track turning from right
Unknown BSicon "KRZu" Unknown BSicon "KRZu" Track turning right
Frederick William Northern Railway to Warburg
Underbridge Underbridge
1.5 L 3420
Track turning left Junction from right
Underbridge
2.6 K 32
Station on track
2.7 Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
Unknown BSicon "emKRZu"
4.3 Hercules Railway (metre gauge) and L 3218
Track turning from left Junction to right
Kassel-Naumburg railway
Underbridge Underbridge
6.3 K 2
Track turning right Straight track
Small bridge
7.0 B 520
Track turning from left Unknown BSicon "ABZdf" Track turning from right
Oberzwehren junction
Large bridge Large bridge Large bridge
7.6 L 3219
Straight track Enter tunnel Straight track
Oberzwehren crossing structure
Track turning left Unknown BSicon "tKRZ" Junction from right
Unknown BSicon "tSTR" Stop on track
7.9 Kassel-Oberzwehren
Exit tunnel Underbridge
8,9 A 49
Enter tunnel Underbridge
10,0 A 44
Unknown BSicon "tSTR" Underbridge
10.6 K 15
Unknown BSicon "tSTR" Station on track
10.7 Baunatal-Rengershausen
Unknown BSicon "tÜWKul" Unknown BSicon "ÜWor"
Unknown BSicon "ÜWo+l" Unknown BSicon "ÜWt+r"
11,4 Hannover–Würzburg HSL to Fulda
Bridge over water
13.5 Bauna
Junction to left Track turning from right
Frederick William Northern Railway (to Bebra)
Station on track Station on track
13.7 Baunatal-Guntershausen
Straight track Track turning left
Small bridge
16.3 L 3221
Station on track
16.6 Edermünde-Grifte
Unknown BSicon "eABZrf"
17.2 Grifte–Gudensberg Light Railway
Bridge over water
18.2 Eder
Stop on track
20.0 Felsberg-Wolfershausen
Underbridge
23,2 K 151
Stop on track
23.5 Felsberg-Altenbrunslar
Small bridge
23.9 L 3222
Level crossing
26.3
Underbridge
27.3 L 3220
Station on track
27.4 Felsberg-Gensungen
Bridge over water
30.3 Schwalm
Station on track
33.9 Wabern)
Underbridge
34.0 B 254
Junction to right
Edersee Railway to Bad Wildungen
Underbridge
34.4 Forststraße
Underbridge
35.4 L 3148
Level crossing
36.2
Level crossing
36.9
Level crossing
37.3 L 3148
Junction to right
37.4 Abzw Uttershausen nach Wabern Kimm
Bridge over water
37.8 Schwalm
Level crossing
38.7
Level crossing
39.3 L 3149
Stop on track
39.4 Singlis
Junction to right
PREAG siding
Underbridge
42.6 L 3384
Station on track
42.9 Borken (Hessen)
Unknown BSicon "eKRZo"
43.4 PREAG power station and mine railway
Straight track
Hessian Brown Coal Mining Museum
Unknown BSicon "eABZlg"
44.6 PREAG siding
Underbridge
45.7 L 3149
Level crossing
47.4 L 3067
Small bridge
48.7 L 3067
Small bridge
49.1 L 3149
Stop on track
49.2 Zimmersrode
Unknown BSicon "eABZlf" Unknown BSicon "exSTRlg"
Kellerwald Railway to Gemünden (Wohra)
Unknown BSicon "exSTRq" Unknown BSicon "eKRZo" Unknown BSicon "exSTRrf"
50,1
Small bridge
51.5 L 3074
Stop on track
54.7 Schlierbach (Schwalm-Eder-Kr)
Level crossing
54.7 K 56
Small bridge
56.7 L 3067
Unknown BSicon "eBHF" Unknown BSicon "exSTRrg"
60.7 Treysa (until 1908)
Underbridge Unknown BSicon "exSBRÜCKE"
61.1 B 454
Bridge over water Unknown BSicon "exWBRÜCKE"
61.5 Schwalm
Unknown BSicon "eABZrg" Unknown BSicon "exSTRrf"
61.9 Leinefelde–Treysa railway
Unknown BSicon "eABZrg"
61.9 Bad Hersfeld–Treysa railway
Underbridge
62.0 L 3145
Station on track
62.3 Treysa (since 1908)
Underbridge
63.3 Road overpass
Small bridge
67.0 B 454
Stop on track
67.1 Schwalmstadt-Wiera
Level crossing
67.9 K 105
Small bridge
70.1 B 454
Small bridge
71.0 L 3263
Station on track
71.1 Neustadt (Hessen)
Small bridge
72.2 L 3071
Unknown BSicon "STRSummit"
76.0 Wasserscheide (watershed) block post Weser and Main
Track turning from left Unknown BSicon "KRZo" Track turning from right
80.0
Straight track Junction from left Track turning right
81.4 Herrenwald-Kaserne industrial siding
Straight track Junction from left Transverse track
81.4 (Fritz Winter Eisengießerei industrial siding )
Non-passenger end station Straight track
Herrenwald-Kaserne
Station on track
82.1 Stadtallendorf
Underbridge
82.5 L 3290
Underbridge
83.1 B 454
Underbridge
86.4 K 15
Junction from left
Ohm Valley Railway (from Gemünden (Felda))
Underbridge
89.1 Hindenburgstraße
Station on track
89.2 Kirchhain
Small bridge
89.5 L 3073
Unknown BSicon "eABZlf" Unknown BSicon "exSTRlg"
Wohra Valley Railway to Gemünden (Wohra)
Bridge over water Unknown BSicon "exWBRÜCKE"
90.1 Wohra
Unknown BSicon "exSTRq" Unknown BSicon "eKRZu" Unknown BSicon "exSTRrf"
90.2
Underbridge
90.8 K 11
Underbridge
93.5 K 31
Stop on track
94.2 Anzefahr
Level crossing
95.2
Level crossing
96.7
Stop on track
97.3 Bürgeln
Underbridge
98.0 B 3
Underbridge
99.2 B 62
Bridge over water
99.5 Lahn
Bridge over water
99.8 Lahn
Junction from right
Obere Lahn Valley Railway to Erndtebrück and
Straight track
Burgwald Railway to Frankenberg (Eder)
Station on track
100.3 Cölbe
Bridge over water
101.4 Lahn
Underbridge
101.6 L 3089
Small bridge
102.0 Siemensstraße
Underbridge
102.1 B 3
Underbridge
103.2 L 3089
Station on track
104.2 Marburg (Lahn)
Underbridge
104.5 Rudolf-Bultmann-Straße
Unknown BSicon "eHST"
Marburg Mitte (planned)
Underbridge
105.8 L 3089
Underbridge
107.1 L 3088
Straight track Unknown BSicon "exKDSTa"
107.2 Marburg SouthPassenger station until 1956
Stop on track Unknown BSicon "exSTR"
107.4 Marburg-Süd
Straight track Unknown BSicon "exBST"
107.6 Heizöllager until 1998
Unknown BSicon "eABZlf" Unknown BSicon "exABZlg"
107.7 Marburg District Railway
Underbridge Unknown BSicon "exSBRÜCKE"
108.5 B 255 / L 3125
Straight track Unknown BSicon "exABZlf"
108.6 Industrial siding until 1998
Straight track Unknown BSicon "exSTRlf"
108.7 to Dreihausen
Underbridge
109.1 B 3
Bridge over water
110.0 Lahn
Underbridge
110.5 B 255
Stop on track
111.9 Niederweimar
Underbridge
114.5 K 60
Unknown BSicon "exSTRrg" Unknown BSicon "eABZrf"
Aar-Salzböde Railway to Herborn (closed 2002)
Unknown BSicon "exBHF" Station on track
115.4 Niederwalgern (Keilbahnhof)
Unknown BSicon "exBRÜCKE1" Underbridge
116.0 K 59
Unknown BSicon "exSTRrf" Straight track
Underbridge
118.5 L 3048
Stop on track
118.9 Fronhausen (Lahn)
Junction to left
119.6 DB siding substation
Bridge over water
119.6 Lahn
Stop on track
122.8 Friedelhausen
Small bridge
122.9 K 26
Underbridge
125.0
Junction from left
125.3 Lumda Valley Railway from Londorf
Station on track
125.9 Lollar )
Unknown BSicon "eABZrf"
to Lollar–Wetzlar railway to Wetzlar
Underbridge
128.7 A 480
Stop on track
132.9 Gießen Oswaldsgarten
Small bridge
133.0 K 28
Small bridge
133.3 L 3499
Small bridge over water
133.6 Wieseck
Straight track Track turning from left
Vogelsberg Railway to Fulda and…
Straight track Junction from left
…Lahn-Kinzig railway to Gelnhausen
Station on track Station on track
134.0 Gießen (Keilbahnhof)
Junction from left Track turning right
Track turning from left Unknown BSicon "ABZdf" Track turning from right
Junction from left Unknown BSicon "KRZo" Track turning right
135.5 Dill Railway to Siegen and Koblenz Hbf
Straight track Small bridge
135.7 L 3475
Underbridge Underbridge
135.7 B 49
Track turning right Straight track
Transverse track Junction from right
Dill Railway to Siegen and Koblenz Hbf
Underbridge
136.4 Straßenüberführung
Non-passenger station/depot on track
136.6 Gießen-Bergwald
Underbridge
137.5 A 485
Station on track
139.7 Großen Linden
Underbridge
140.0 L 3129
Underbridge
141.2 A 45
Station on track
143.4 Langgöns
Small bridge
143.5 L 3133
Stop on track
146.1 Kirch-Göns
Unknown BSicon "ABZ3lg" Unknown BSicon "KRZo" Unknown BSicon "eABZ3rg"
151.0 Butzbach-Lich railway (connecting curve…
Track turning left Unknown BSicon "ABZdlg" Unknown BSicon "exSTRrf"
151.3 …to HLB workshop and line to Münzenberg)
Small bridge
151.3 B 3
Station on track
151.9 Butzbach
Small bridge
152.6 L 3053
Stop on track
154.6 Ostheim (Butzbach)
Underbridge
156.9 A 5
Underbridge
151.3 B 275
Underbridge
160.6 Steinfurther Straße
Unknown BSicon "eABZrg"
Butzbach-Lich Railway
Station on track
161.9 Bad Nauheim
Underbridge
162.4 L 3143
Underbridge
163.1 B 3
Small bridge
163.2 Salinenstraße to Schwalheim
Small bridge
164.4 B 455
Unknown BSicon "exSTRrg" Unknown BSicon "eABZrf" Track turning from left
164.3 Horloff Valley Railway from Hungen/Nidda
Unknown BSicon "exWBRÜCKE" Bridge over water Bridge over water
165.0 Rosental Viaduct
Unknown BSicon "exSTRlf" Unknown BSicon "ABZdrg" Track turning right
165.1
Small bridge
165.6 Road overpass
Unknown BSicon "S+BHF"
165.7 Friedberg terminus S6Frankfurt S6.svg
Junction to right
Friedberg–Friedrichsdorf railway
Junction to left
Friedberg–Hanau railway
Small bridge
166.5 B 275
Small bridge
167.3 Bridge over the Görbelheimer Hohl
Unknown BSicon "SHST"
170.1 Bruchenbrücken
Small arched bridge over water
172.8 Rosbach Bridge
Unknown BSicon "SBHF"
173.0 Wöllstadt-Nieder-Wöllstadt
Large bridge
B 3
Unknown BSicon "SHST"
176.2 Okarben since 1894
Unknown BSicon "SBHF"
178.4 Groß-Karben
Unknown BSicon "eABZlf"
179.2 Industrial siding
Unknown BSicon "SHST"
181.4 Dortelweil
Junction from left
Nidder Valley Railway from Stockheim
Unknown BSicon "S+BHF"
183.6 Bad Vilbel
Bridge over water
184.5 Nidda Bridge
Unknown BSicon "SHST"
184.9 Bad Vilbel Süd
Underbridge
B 3
Unknown BSicon "SHST"
187.5 Berkersheim
Underbridge
189.3 L 3003
Unknown BSicon "SBHF"
189.4 Frankfurter Berg (Frankfurt-Bonames until 1986)
Unknown BSicon "SHST"
191.6 Eschersheim
Unknown BSicon "mKRZu"
U-Bahn lines U1, 2, 3
Unknown BSicon "eBHF"
193.2 Bundesgartenschau…
Straight track
… to be re-opened as Frankfurt-Ginnheim
Unknown BSicon "mKRZu"
U-Bahn line U1
Unknown BSicon "BS2rf" Unknown BSicon "BS2lf"
195.4 S-Bahn overbridge
Unknown BSicon "KRZu" Junction from right
from Frankfurt-Rödelheim S3Frankfurt S3.svg, S4Frankfurt S4.svg and S5Frankfurt S5.svg
Junction from right Straight track
right line and branch-off to: Homburg Railway
Station on track Unknown BSicon "SBHF"
196.4 Frankfurt West
Junction to left Junction from right
Straight track Unknown BSicon "SHST"
197.3 Frankfurt Messe
Unknown BSicon "eABZrd" Large bridge
former central goods station
Straight track Unknown BSicon "SBHF"
198.1 Frankfurt Galluswarte
Junction to right Straight track
Main-Lahn Railway, Taunus Railway
Junction to right Straight track
Main-Neckar Railway, goods track
Junction from left Junction to right
Unknown BSicon "KRZo" Unknown BSicon "KRZo"
Hauptbahnhof approach (Main Railway etc)
Straight track Enter tunnel
City Tunnel
Unknown BSicon "KBHFxe" Unknown BSicon "tSBHF"
199.8 Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof
Unknown BSicon "exKBHFe" Unknown BSicon "tSTR"
Frankfurt Main-Weser station (to 1888)

The Main-Weser Railway (German: Main-Weser-Bahn) is the railway line in central Germany that runs from Frankfurt am Main via Gießen to Kassel and named after the railway company that built the line and also operated it until 1880. It was opened between 1849 and 1852 and was one of the first railways in Germany.

Contents

Route

Based on today’s kilometre markers the line is 199.8 km (124.1 mi) long between its termini. It is double-tracked and electrified. Its maximum speed limit is 160 km/h (99.4 mph), but this is only achievable in places on the southern part of the line. The Main-Weser Railway is one of the most important conventionally-operated German railways.

History

Main-Weser station in Frankfurt in 1889
Covered forecourt at Kassel Wilhelmshöhe station
Signal box on watershed between Weser and Rhine rivers

The idea of building the Main-Weser Railway began in 1838 as a link between Kassel and the Rhine-Main area running exclusively through the territory of Hesse-Kassel (Kurhessen) and connecting the major cities of the electorate from Kassel to Hanau via Fulda. At that time it proved impracticable to build such a line (the route of the Frederick William Northern Railway and the Frankfurt–Bebra railway) because of its mountainous route, particularly at the watershed between the Fulda and Kinzig valleys at Distelrasen, where a tunnel was only completed in 1914.

So instead from 1841 negotiations commenced with some other states and was interrupted several times. On 5 April 1845, a treaty was signed between the Free City of Frankfurt, the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel, establishing a joint state railway company, known as a condominium railway (Kondominalbahn). This established the legal basis for the line via Marburg, Gießen and Friedberg through easier terrain to the originally preferred route, but which crossed national boundaries several times. In the southern sector the route ran after its exit from the Main-Weser station in Frankfurt approximately parallel with the street of Taunusstraße (at that time, only partly built), along the current streets of Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage and Hamburger Allee to the then Kurhessen town of Bockenheim, now the site of Frankfurt (Main) West station. It then ran again through the territory of Frankfurt in Hausen, through Kurhessen in Eschersheim, and through Frankfurt territory in Bonames. The line then went through the Grand Duchy of Hesse town of Boden bis Friedberg, then a piece of Frankfurt-owned territory in Dortelweil. Bad Nauheim was a Kurhessen enclave within the Grand Duchy of Hesse exclave of Oberhessen through which the line ran to Gießen. Under the treaty, each of the participating governments were responsible for the purchase of land on their territory. Financing the construction of the line proved to be more difficult. Construction occurred during the turmoil of the revolutions of 1848 and a financial crisis in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

Work began on 6 August 1846 in Kurhessen territory. Here the Belgian engineer Frans Splingard and his colleague Edward Hacault were in charge. In Frankfurt construction was directed by Remigius Eyssen. The building of station on almost all sections of the line in Kurhessen was directed by Julius Eugen Ruhl, the first Director General of the Kurhessen railways. The first section between Kassel and Wabern was opened on 29 December 1849. The first continuous rail service from Kassel to Frankfurt ran on 15 May 1852, after the opening of the line between Gießen and Langgöns, connecting the northern and the southern sections of the line.

The second track was added in 1865—following twelve years of negotiations. The cooperation of the participating countries had not improved despite rapidly developing rail services. The second track significantly eased the transport of Prussian troops in the War of 1866, a war which led to the annexation by Prussia of two of the states involved in Main-Weser Railway, Hesse-Kassel and the Free City of Frankfurt. Their shares were subsequently transferred to Prussia. In 1880, Prussia also acquired the Grand Duchy of Hesse’s shares in the company.

Until the completion of the Frankfurt–Bebra line in 1866, all express trains between Frankfurt and Berlin ran on the Main-Weser Railway. These trains ran on to the Frederick William Northern Railway at Guntershausen to connect with the Thuringian Railway. Express trains continued to run from Frankfurt to Berlin via Kassel until the end of World War II. In the following years of the American occupation trains also ran on this route. In 1878/79 the Treysa–Lollar section of the line was incorporated into the strategic railway known as the Kanonenbahn (English: Cannons Railway) built between Berlin and Metz.

During the 1960s, the first section of the line was electrified between Frankfurt and Giessen; electrification of the line was completed on 20 March 1967.

Operations

Two long distance routes run on the Main-Weser Railway. These are the cross-country routes of Intercity line 26 running at two-hour intervals between Karlsruhe or Constance and Stralsund or Hamburg-Altona and a pair of Euro City trains on line 62 from Siegen to Klagenfurt which run on the line between Giessen and Frankfurt, stopping at Bad Nauheim. Regional-Express train services operate between Frankfurt and Kassel and between Frankfurt and Siegen. The latter leave the line in Gießen, requiring a reversal. Regionalbahn trains operate between Marburg and Giessen and between Giessen and Friedberg. Line S6 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn operates between Friedberg and Frankfurt South station through the City Tunnel. The section between Treysa and Kassel is operated by RegioTram Kassel Tram-trains as line RT 9. The RegioTram line commenced in May 2007 but initially only on weekends, it has since replaced the Regionalbahn trains on weekdays as well.

Many trains on the lines branching from Bad Vilbel, Friedberg, Giessen and Marburg use some of the main line. Many freight trains operate on the route including container trains and trains carrying farm equipment (such as tractors and combine harvesters) from factory. The line is also regularly used for military movements.

References

  • Brake, Ludwig (2000). "Über Fulda oder über Gießen—die Entstehung der Bahnverbindungen zwischen Kassel und Frankfurt im 19. Jahrhundert (Around Fulda or Gießen—the development of the rail links between Kassel and Frankfurt in the 19th Century)" (in German). Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte (Yearbook of Railway History). 32. pp. 5–16. 
  • Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2007. ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9. 
  • Krause, Günter (2000). "Die Lokomotiven der Main-Weser-Bahn (The locomotives of the Main-Weser Railway)" (in German). Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte (Yearbook of Railway History). 32. pp. 17–27. 
  • Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (State Conservation Hesse), ed (2005,) (in German). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Eisenbahnenbauten- und strecken 1839-1939 (Railways in Hesse. Rail construction and lines 1839-1939). 2.1,. Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag. pp. 142ff (Strecke 010). ISBN 3-8062-1917-6. 
  • Münzer, Lutz (2000). "Verkehr und Anlagen der nördlichen Main-Weser-Bahn (Transport and facilities of the Northern Main-Weser Railway)" (in German). Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte (Yearbook of Railway History). 32. pp. 28–60. 
  • Münzer, Lutz. "Vom Kondominat zur Preußischen Staatseisenbahn—aus der Geschichte der Main-Weser-Bahn zwischen (From Condominium to Prussian State Railways—from the history of the Main-Weser Railway) 1866–1880" (in German). Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hessische Geschichte 107. pp. 291–314. 
  • Münzer, Lutz (2004). "Von der Main-Weser-Bahn zwischen 1866 und 1880 (From the history of the Main-Weser Railway 1866 and 1880)" (in German). Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte (Yearbook of Railway History). 36. pp. 91–104. 
  • Sieburg, Dankwart (2000)). "Zur Entwicklung der Eisenbahnerschließung im Raum Treysa/Neustadt (On the development of railways in the Treysa/Neustadt area)" (in German). Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte (Yearbook of Railway History). 32. pp. 61–84. 
  • (in German) Der Viadukt. Der Rosentalviadukt in Friedberg (The viaduct. The Rosental Viaduct in Friedberg). Friedberg: Bindernagelschen Buchhandlung. 1995. ISBN 3-87076-075-3. 

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