Tamm station HistoryIn 1843 and 1844, planning for the development of railway lines around Stuttgart were in full swing. The engineer and expert Charles Vignoles foresaw the Western Railway towards Bruchsal branching off the Northern Railway (now called the Franconia Railway) towards Heilbronn near Tamm. His colleague, railway engineer Karl Etzel revised his proposal in July 1845 and advised against it. He recommended that the Western Railway separate from the Northern Railway at Bietigheim.The Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergische Staatsbahn) offered to build a station in Tamm. But the council and a citizens' committee saw no advantage in the new form on transport and decided on 1 June 1846 not to accept the offer— which turned out to be a serious mistake.On 11 October 1847, the State Railways opened the Ludwigsburg–Bietigheim section and in 1852 it was duplicated.Campaign for a stationThe municipality sought the building of a station at renewed talks, but the railways department refused, pointing out that the stations of Asperg and Bietigheim were within easy reach.Timber from the Black Forest was still brought to the region on the Enz as timber rafts. Many were brought ashore in Bissingen. A new wood collection operation was developed near Tamm in the 1860s, making Tamm more important. But once again the State Railways administration pointed out that the stations of Asperg and Bietigheim were available to serve this traffic. And it knew that timber rafting would become a thing of the past, with the completion of the Enz Valley Railway and Nagold Valley Railway.