List of installations for 15 kV AC railway electrification in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Germany, Austria and Switzerland operate the largest interconnected 15 kV 16.7 Hz system, which has central generation, a special transmission network, central and decentral converter plants.

Germany In Germany, the voltage of traction current grid is 110 kV. In the Northeastern parts of Germany there is no traction current grid, as decentralized converter plants situated at the substations are used.

Facility Coordinates Aalen Adelsheim Almstedt Amstetten Appenweier Aschaffenburg Aubing Augsburg Bachstedt (planned) Bad Reichenhall Baden-Baden Barnstorf Bebra Bengel Berlin-Schönefeld Biblis Bingen Böhla Boizenburg Borken (part of converter) Borne Braunschweig Buchholz Burgdorf Burgweinting Chemnitz (part of converter) Datteln Denkendorf Donauwörth Dörstewitz (planned) Dortmund Dortmund-Scharnhorst Dresden (part of converter) Duisburg Düsseldorf Ebensfeld Eggolsheim Eichenberg Eilenburg Eischleben (planned) Eisenach Elmshorn Elsfleth Emden Emskirchen Essen Eutingen Eystrup Fallersleben Finnentrop Flieden Flörsheim Freiburg Friedberg Fronhausen Fulda Gabelbach Garssen Geisenbrunn Geltendorf Gemünden Genshagener Heide Gleidingen Golm Gössnitz (old) Gössnitz (new) Grafing Grönhart Grossheringen Grosskorbetha Grünauer Kreuz (switching post) Güsen Hagen Hahn (planned) Halbe (fed from 15 kV line from Neuhof) Haltingen Hamburg-Harburg (part of converter) Hameln Haren Heeren Herbolzheim Herchen Hessental Höchst Holzkirchen Ihringshausen Ilmenau-Wolfsberg (planned) Ingolstadt Jübek (part of converter) Kaiserslautern Karow Karthaus Kirchheim Kirchmöser Klebitz Koblenz Köln (part of converter) Köln-Mülheim Körle Kreiensen Kyhna Landshut Leer Lehrte (part of converter) Leipzig-Wahren Leonberg Limburg Löhne Lüneburg Magdeburg Mainbernheim Mannheim Markt Bibart Markt Schwaben Marl (part of converter) Meckesheim Mehrhoog Montabaur Mörlach Mottgers Mühlacker Mühlanger Muldenstein Müllheim München-Freimann München-Ost Münster Murnau Nannhofen Neckarelz Neumarkt (Oberpfalz) Neudittendorf Neuhof Neumünster Neu-Ulm (part of converter) Niedernhausen Niemberg Nörten-Hardenberg Nürnberg (part of converter) Nürnberg-Stein (part of converter) Oberacker Oberdachstetten Oelde Offenbach am Main Offenburg Orscheid Osnabrück Plattling Plochingen Pretzier Pulling Rathenow Remagen Rethen Riesa Ritterhude Rödelheim Rohrbach Röhrmoos Rosenheim Rotenburg (new) Rotenburg (old) Roth (planned) Rottweil Rudersdorf Saalfeld Saarbrücken (part of converter) Salzbergen Saubachtal (planned) Siegburg Sindorf Singen Solpke Sommerau Steinbach am Wald Stetzsch Stolberg Stuttgart-Rohr Stuttgart-Zazenhausen Traunstein Uelzen Urbach Vaihingen / Enz Wächtersbach Waiblingen Waigolshausen Warburg Weimar (part of converter) Weiterstadt Werdau Wickrath Wiesbaden Wiesental Wolfratshausen Wörsdorf Wunstorf Würzburg Wurzen Wustermark Zapfendorf (shut down)

Switching stations Switching stations without power conversion, generation or feeding of overhead wires.

Facility Coordinates Gabelbach Kirchhellen Neckarwestheim Nenndorf Nitzahn Schönarts

Central converter plants In these facilities AC from the public grid is transformed into single phase AC and fed into the traction current grid. At some facilities, power is also fed to the overhead wires. Conversion is made by machines or by electronic means.

Facility Year of commissioning Power Technology Coordinates Aschaffenburg 2010 60 MW GTO-thyristor Borken 1963 50 MW Rotary converter Bremen 100 MW GTO-thyristor Chemnitz 1965 Rotary converter Dresden 1977 Rotary converter Düsseldorf 30 MW GTO-thyristor Hamburg-Harburg Rotary converter Jübek 14 MW GTO-thyristor Karlsfeld 100 MW GTO-thyristor Karlsruhe 1957 53 MW Rotary converter Köln 1957 75 MW Rotary converter Lehrte 1963 (rotary converter)/ 2010 (inverter) 37 MW (rotary converter)/ 64 MW (inverter) Rotary converter/ inverter Limburg 120 MW IGCT inverter Marl 1963 25 MW Rotary converter Neckarwestheim 1989 140 MW Rotary converter Neckarwestheim II 2011 140 MW GTO-thyristor Neu-Ulm Rotary converter Nürnberg 1939 34 Rotary converter Nürnberg 2012 75 IGBT-Inverter Pforzheim (shut down) Rotary converter Saarbrücken Rotary converter Singen (shut down in 2002) Rotary converter Thyrow 2004/2005 8×15 = 120 MW GTO-thyristor Weimar 1973 Rotary converter

Decentral converter plants In these facilities AC from the public grid is transformed into single phase AC and fed only to the overhead wires. Conversion is made by machines or by electronic means.

Facility Year of inauguration Maximum transmission rate Used technology Coordinates Adamsdorf 1984 Rotary converter Anklam Rotary converter Berlin-Rummelsburg 1984 Rotary converter Bützow (demolished) Rotary converter Cottbus 1989 Rotary converter Doberlug-Kirchhain 1981 (Umformer), 2008 (Inverter) Inverter Eberswalde 1987 Rotary converter Falkenberg 1987 Rotary converter Oder Rotary converter Lalendorf Rotary converter Löwenberger Land Rotary converter Ludwigsfelde 1981 Rotary converter Lübeck-Genin 2008 Inverter ? Magdeburg (shut down) 1974 Rotary converter Neustadt (Dosse) Rotary converter Oberröblingen Rotary converter Prenzlau Rotary converter Rosslau Rotary converter Rostock 1985 Rotary converter Schwerin 1987 Rotary converter Senftenberg 1988 Rotary converter Stendal Rotary converter Stralsund Rotary converter Wittenberg 1978 Rotary converter Wittenberge 1987 Rotary converter Wolkramshausen Inverter Wünsdorf 1982 Rotary converter Wustermark Rotary converter

Power plants

Facility Year of inauguration Power Facility type Town Coordinates Aschaffenburg (shut down) 1961-1996 150 MW Coal-fired power plant Aschaffenburg, Bavaria Aufkirchen Hydroelectric power plant Oberding, Bavaria Bad Abbach 2000 3.5 MW Hydroelectric power plant Bad Abbach, Bavaria Bad Reichenhall 1912 7.2 MW Hydroelectric power plant Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria Bergheim 1970 23.7 MW Hydroelectric power plant Bergheim, Bavaria Bertoldsheim 1967 18.9 MW Hydroelectric power plant Rennertshofen, Bavaria Bittenbrunn 1969 20.2 MW Hydroelectric power plant Bittenbrunn, Bavaria Datteln Coal-fired power plant Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia Eitting Hydroelectric Power Plant Hydroelectric power plant Eitting, Bavaria Frankfurt Traction Current Power Plant 1966 12 MW Thermal power plant Frankfurt am Main, Hessen Ingolstadt 1971 19.8 MW Hydroelectric power plant Ingolstadt, Bavaria Kammerl 1905 Hydroelectric power plant Saulgrub, Bavaria Kirchmöser 160 MW Gas turbine power plant Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg Langenprozelten 1976 160 MW Hydroelectric power plant Gemünden am Main, Bavaria Lausward Coal-fired power plant Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia Lünen 1984 110 MW Coal-fired power plant Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia Mannheim 1955 190 MW Coal-fired power plant Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg Muldenstein (retired) 1912 11.3 MW Coal-fired power plant Muldenstein, Saxony-Anhalt Mittelsbüren 110 MW Coal-fired power plant Bremen, Bremen Neckarwestheim I 1976 190 MW Nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim, Baden-Württemberg Pfrombach Hydroelectric power plant Pfrombach, Bavaria Schkopau Power Station 1996 110 MW Coal-fired power plant Schkopau, Saxony Stuttgart-Münster Power Station (traction current generation ceased) 1933-1976 Coal-fired power plant Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Vohburg Hydroelectric power plant Vohburg, Bavaria Walchensee 1924 Hydroelectric power plant Kochel am See, Bavaria

Border crossing powerlines

Germany - Austria

Line Coordinates Walchenseekraftwerk - Zirl Traunstein - Steinsdorf

Former inner German border

Line Coordinates Lehrte - Heeren Bebra - Weimar Steinfeld am Wald - Saalfeld Lüneburg - Boizenburg

Points where two powerlines for traction current cross each other without interconnection

Lines Coordinates Flieden-Bebra / Fulda-Mottgers Bebra-Borken / Kirchheim-Körle Karlsruhe-Mühlacker /Vaihingen-Graben/Neudorf Orscheid-Köln / Orscheid-Montabaur Mannheim-Neckarelz / Mannheim-Wiesental

Switzerland In Switzerland, the voltage levels of the traction power grid are 132 kV/66 kV. At Muttenz and Etzwilen, there are transformers for coupling to 110 kV level of the traction power grid of Germany.

Substations In these facilities electricity is transformed down from 132 kV or 66 kV to 15 kV. There is no conversion or generation of power.

Facility Coordinates Balerna Biel Brugg Burgdorf Bussigny Chur Croy Courtemaîche Delémont Eglisau Emmenbrücke Etzwilen Farsch Filisur (RhB) Flüelen Fribourg Frutigen Gampel Genève-Tuileries Giornico Gland Hendschiken Kandersteg Küblis (RhB) Melide Muttenz Neuchâtel Killwangen Olten Puidoux Rapperswil SG Rivera Roche Romont FR Rotkreuz Sagliains (RhB) Saint Léonard Sankt Margrethen Sargans Seebach Selfranga Sihlbrugg Sils (RhB) Stein AG Steinen Tavanasa (RhB) Thun Varzo (Italy, operated by SBB) Wanzwil Wetzikon ZH Winterthur-Grüze Yverdon Ziegelbrücke Zürich

Central converter plants In these facilities AC from the public grid is transformed into single phase AC and fed into the traction current grid. At some facilities, power is also fed to the overhead wires. Conversion is made by machines or by electronic means.

Facility Year of inauguration Maximum transmission rate Used technology Coordinates Bever (RhB) Rotary converter Landquart (RhB) Rotary converter Giubiasco Rotary converter Kerzers Rotary converter Massaboden Rotary converter Rupperswil Rotary converter Seebach Rotary converter Wimmis Rotary converter

Switching stations Switching stations without power conversion, generation or feeding of overhead wires.

Facility Coordinates Zollikofen

Power plants Facility Year of inauguration Maximumpower Type of facility Coordinates Amsteg 1922 55 MW Hydroelectric power plant Le Châtelard VS Hydroelectric power plant Etzelwerk Hydroelectric power plant Göschenen Hydroelectric power plant Gösgen 51,3 MW Hydroelectric power plant Klosters Hydroelectric power plant Lungerersee 1994 9 MW Hydroelectric power plant Massaboden 1916 7,2 MW Hydroelectric power plant Mühleberg 1921 45 MW Hydroelectric power plant Ritom 1920 Hydroelectric power plant Rupperswil 1945 Hydroelectric power plant Vernayaz Hydroelectric power plant Wassen Hydroelectric power plant

Border crossing powerlines

Germany-Switzerland

Leitung Coordinates Holdingen - Muttenz Singen - Etzwilen

Points where two powerlines for traction current cross each other without interconnection

Lines Coordinates Bussigny-Croy / Romanel-Les Tuileries Puidoux-Kerzers / Bussigny-Chamoson Puidoux-Vernayaz/ Bussigny-Chamoson Puidoux-Vernayaz/ Bussigny-Chamoson Puidoux-Vernayaz/ Vernayaz Branch Vernayaz-Brig/ Bussigny-Chamoson

Austria In Austria, the voltage of traction current grid is 110 kV, except of the lines Meidling-Hütteldorf, Hütteldorf-Auhof, Hütteldorf-Floridsdorf, Floridsdorf-Simmering and Meidling-Simmering, which are operated with 55 kV.

Substations In these facilities electricity is transformed down from 110/55 kV-level of OBB to 15 kV. There is no conversion or generation of power.

Facility Coordinates Absdorf Angern Amstetten (Österreich) Asten Attnang-Puchheim Bad Vöslau Bludenz Bruck Mur Dölsach Dorfgastein Elsbethen Feldkirch Floridsdorf Fritzens-Wattens Gaisbach Wartberg Golling-Abtenau Göpfritz Gries am Brenner Götzendorf Graz Haag Hohenau Hütteldorf Kitzbühel Küpfern Landeck Mallnitz Marchtrenk Mariahof Matrei Meidling Mistelbach Münster Parndorf Pettneu Pusarnitz Riedau Rohr Sankt Johann im Pongau Sankt Pölten Sankt Veit Schladming Schlöglmühl Semmering Wien-Simmering Steindorf Tulln Unterberg Villach Wald am Schoberpass Wartberg an der Krems Wegscheid Wiener Neustadt Wörgl Zellerndorf Zirl (old) Zirl (new)

Central converter plants In these facilities, AC from the public grid is transformed into single phase AC and fed into the traction current grid. At some facilities, power is also fed to overhead wires. Conversion may be performed mechanically or electronically.