1850–1866: opening and connecting to other railway lines Ulm Hauptbahnhof

map of ulm station in 1850



first ulm station 1850 , post office in 1855

ulm station officially opened last section of southern railway biberach ulm on 1 june 1850. on 29 june 1850, railway geislinger steige pass on swabian alb between geislingen , amstetten completed, allowing württemberg east railway (fils valley railway), running stuttgart via göppingen, taken operation, through trains run heilbronn friedrichshafen. thus, first railway line across württemberg completed. climb on geislinger steige technical masterpiece time , attracted attention throughout europe. 3 trains ran each day through 3 tracks of station towards stuttgart , friedrichshafen. travel time between ulm , stuttgart 4 hours , between ulm , friedrichshafen 3 hours , 15 minutes. station building, designed architect ludwig friedrich gaab in style combining gothic revival , neoclassical elements, opened in december 1850. consisted of two-story central building, had three-storey side towers @ each end, , contained on ground floor entrance hall, 2 waiting rooms, station restaurant, luggage room, room service staff, room porter , 2 cash rooms anterooms. upstairs there storage rooms , living areas. ashlar, brick , crushed stone used materials. 2 entrance halls station building built in 1851. built roundhouse, carriage house, goods shed, water station , several other buildings. railway telegraph connected station on 16 april 1851 , ulm station opened porter service on 9 october 1851.

railway bridge on danube in 1855

on 25 april 1850, kingdom of bavaria signed treaty kingdom of württemberg extend railway line between munich , augsburg ulm , connect württemberg railway network. in march 1852, construction began on railway bridge on danube. first train arrived @ neu-ulm station after 25 december 1853; officially opened on 26 september neu-ulm–burgau section of bavarian maximilian’s railway. since danube bridge had not yet been completed, droshky service operated between ulm , neu-ulm station. danube bridge, beginning designed 2 tracks, completed on 1 may 1854. consisted of keuper sandstone , 123 metres long , 8.55 metres wide. called wilhelm-maximilian bridge in honour of reigning kings of württemberg , bavaria , had iron gates @ both ends. on 1 june, entire maximilian’s railway ulm augsburg opened munich , ulm station became railway junction. 4 trains ran daily each way on new line, express trains taking 3 hours 30 minutes , ordinary passenger trains taking 5 6 hours. station border station , interchange station between bavaria , württemberg separate station facilities operated 2 kingdoms. royal bavarian state railways’ operations in southern part of station in own wing of station building, had bay platforms. became known bayerischer bahnhof (bavarian station). since bavarian time ten minutes ahead of württemberg time, there 2 different times used @ station. @ end of 1856, line between ulm , neu-ulm duplicated.

in 1855, separate winter , spring timetable introduced. on 17 may 1856, connection through ulm opened international trade, allowing transportation of wood, grain, tobacco, cement, bricks , coal steam engines rail. steam engines being installed because current of blau no longer sufficient supply increasing demand energy. ulm doubled exports between 1852 , 1855. post office opened in february 1856 , first hotel (hôtel de russie, later renamed zum russischen hof) opened @ station on 1 may 1857. on 12 october 1862, iller valley railway opened neu-ulm memmingen 4 trains running daily , extended kempten on 1 june 1863. same day, second track of fils valley railway ulm stuttgart taken operation after 4 years of construction. once royal bavarian railways office moved new ulm, on 1 january 1861, operations of existing württemberg , bavaria joint station transferred württemberg, exception of vehicle , locomotive operations, 1 december 1863. part of bahnhofstraße (station street), completed in 1867, built in january 1865, covering on blau. part of fortress wall built in middle ages demolished @ end of 1866 give station direct access city centre. in 1866, private entrepreneur philip berblinger built berblinger building 36 apartments @ end of karlstraße first building in ulm railway workers.