Schuster Railway
| Stuttgart-Untertürkheim–Kornwestheim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Locale | Baden-Württemberg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line number | 4720 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Line length | 11.5 km (7.1 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius | 350 m (1,148 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrification | 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route number | 790.11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: German railway atlas
The Stuttgart-Untertürkheim–Kornwestheim railway (known regionally as the Schusterbahn) is an 11.5-kilometre-long freight bypass in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The double-track electrified main line connects Untertürkheim with Kornwestheim and serves primarily as a bypass for freight around Stuttgart Central Station (Hauptbahnhof). In the Deutsche Bahn timetable as route 790.11.
The name Schusterbahn (“Shoemaker Railway”) refers to the Salamander shoe factory founded in Kornwestheim by a relative of Albert Einstein in 1899. The passenger trains on the route mainly served employees of the shoe factory and the railways, as Untertürkheim and Kornwestheim both contained the homes of many railway workers, and ended originally in Kornwestheim not at Kornwestheim station, but to its east in the old Kornwestheim marshalling yard, the remains of which were demolished after the completion, in 1918, of the new marshalling yard, which is separate from and to the west of Kornwestheim station.
The line was opened on 30 September 1896 with the inauguration of Stuttgart-Münster station in order to bypass the Stuttgart Central Station (Zentralbahnhof). Previously, all freight trains in Stuttgart had to operate through the Central Station, the predecessor of the current Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (“central” or “main station”), which, like the current station, was a terminus, requiring all through trains to reverse.
At its opening on 1 October 1896, the line was single track, with its foundations and its engineering works already prepared for a second track. Due to increasing traffic, the government made available a million marks for the construction of the second track on 23 January 1902. In the winter of 1901/1902 it was served by some 50 freight and five passenger trains daily. Under several pieces of legislation in 1902, 1903 and 1905, a total of 1.8 million marks was allocated for the project. The second track was put into operation on 23 September 1904.
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